wooden-headed

Even when he opens up, the sentences are wooden, the scenes sucked dry of emotion.

But he forgot the stagnant town, the bald-headed man at the club window, the organ and "The Manola."

But the nasty part of the whole thing was, that Haggard had won eleven thousand pounds from a weak-headed boy.

One of Yung Pak's favourite toys was a wooden jumping-jack with a pasteboard tongue.

She plays with Captain Lovelock as a child does with a wooden harlequin, she pulls a string and he throws up his arms and legs.

The whole thing begins to have a jigsaw look, like a child's toy rack with wooden soldiers on it, expanding and contracting.