(Her stilted presentation, in which she appeared to be learning the words as she sang them in a strange, compressed voice, didn't much help).
(Her stilted presentation, in which she appeared to be learning the words as she sang them in a strange, compressed voice, didn't much help). Perhaps it failed as a direct homage Madonna famously disparaged O'Connor immediately following the "S.N.L". incident, adding another layer of discord to her performance but the sentiment, at least, felt germane.
As he began to speak, it became apparent that his stilted presentation was scripted and likely prepared by someone other than himself.
Seeming out of his element in the government buildings and think tanks — unlike many powerful Mexicans, he does not speak much English (all of my interviews with him were conducted in Spanish) — García Luna met with government officials and diplomats and gave a stilted power-point presentation to policy experts.
She is a stilted, stunted person.
The living room had a stilted orderliness.
In the next take, C.K. slipped into a stilted locution.
In the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, late Bronze Age people sometimes lived in stilted villages on lakes – but the Must Farm site is an ultra-rare example of a stilted river settlement.
Their candidate, Martha Coakley, the state's attorney-general, is a capable prosecutor but a stilted politician.
The characters speak a stilted slang to the accompaniment of banjos and, sometimes, a yodeller.
