WOODENNESS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Woodenness

... of surprise came into the Bowery Boy's face, followed by one of stolid woodenness. He took the sovereign that Jimmy held out to him with a muttered word of thanks, and shuffled out of ...

— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse

... not know his own defect, and even if he did he does not wish to abandon his own profession. He still writes; but he writes because he has to tell a story, not because he has a story to tell. What reader of novels has not felt the "woodenness" of this mode of telling? The characters do not live and move, but are cut out of blocks and are propped against the wall. The incidents are arranged in certain lines—the arrangement being as palpable to the reader ...

— Autobiography of Anthony Trollope • Anthony Trollope