| He had an odd complacency and crooked smile for the creakiness of fate which had returned him here. |
| Some of the apparent creakiness of the plot turns out to be a bit of a double bluff, and the book rattles along quite painlessly for some 500 pages. |
| It's 4-6 that both teams score which says plenty about the creakiness of the Wolves rearguard. |
| The trademark creakiness was gone, replaced by an infectious energy and vitality sorely lacking in most musicals of the time. |
| This is just one area in which the creakiness of the plot is obvious, this theme is never developed. |
