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Spalding has a formal manner, stiff upper lip, and fashionable clothes.
Up to a point performers are exempted from self-restraint - from keeping a stiff upper lip.
She was to keep a stiff upper lip.
The development of the stiff upper lip is liable to be accompanied by the development of a similarly rigid mind.
They do not like to admit it and there is a lot of stiff upper lip, but many of our colleagues are hurting.
The stiff upper lip and the poker face are in danger of freezing into a mask of anomymity.
However, there are now signs that they are no longer prepared, as they were in the past, to keep a stiff upper lip.
Often enough they try to maintain a good heart and a stiff upper lip when all the circumstances are against them.
He kept a stiff upper lip and refused absolutely, on grounds of public policy, to use public money to subsidise the private builder.
The party will implode upon itself, smiling sanguinely and with a stiff upper lip to the last behind its languid leader.
She finds rejection everywhere and is always told to keep a stiff upper lip and not cry.
Many of his television parts were as a stuffy, middle class buffoon, with a stiff upper lip, and he is known for deadpan drollery.
A sign of weakness is trembling of the upper lip, hence the saying keep a stiff upper lip.
We must have some element of strength about us and some stiff upper lips, without being aggressive.
