1. The whole woodenness issue has been laid to rest for me. 2. He wanted it to be blocky, the woodenness emphatic, 3. Carey moves through all this with a woodenness that suggests either boredom or condescension. 4. But this time he almost jettisons the woodenness of manner that has always dogged him. 5. Portrayed as wooden, Vice President Al Gore exaggerates his woodenness and charms the crowd. 6. As played solemnly well by Rylance, this dour figure suggests not woodenness but passions carefully checked. 7. Gore puts the woodenness to the mayors again that evening at a reception at the Main Library. 8. If Gore was determined, as he seemed to be, to shake his reputation for woodenness , he succeeded. 9. The public cited his premature hair loss, his personal woodenness and his rasping Yorkshire accent as the main reasons. 10. If he tries to be like the resolute Bush, he'll fall into his old trap : woodenness .
