Sentence examples for rather stilted from inspiring English sources
Her apprentice work was conventional and unpromising, rather stilted.
Unfortunately, those games feel more genuine than this rather stilted take on how they were made.
There was a catch, of course — a Soviet handler named Lyudmila — so I had to settle for a rather stilted interview in a hotel lobby.
I'm based in the übershiny Versace Hotel where I spend the day bumping into other jungle-mates and having rather stilted conversations with each of them now that the intensity of our brief relationship has diminished.
The Dutch was rather stilted, possibly reflecting the patchiness of Bouyeri's education, possibly from having been translated from Arabic into English for consumption via the internet, then into Dutch.
Despite having a Spanish wife and spending years living in Spain, Foster speaks the language only in "limited and rather stilted" form, and is continually mocked for his cliched idea of Spain.
The observation that 'most people over 21 reading this will be able to recite the future of avoir but unable to order a glass of water' rings horribly true given the rather abstract, stilted approach in UK schools at the time.
If she had to testify in front of Congress every day, rather than give stilted speeches at campaign events, I don't think she would have nearly the amount of political criticism she currently receives about being "inauthentic".
Farther along, a group of dark, rather stiff and stilted pencil drawings (including more trams and cathedrals) from the 1970s are redeemed by the numinous music videos and music-video-like shorts of the "Stille Nacht" and "Songs for Dead Children" series, in which the Quays' talent for marrying image and music is especially strong.
When reading from a book, try to make the words sound natural, rather than the stilted sight-reading drone that many people lapse into.
Nightclub dancing is about sexy movement and expressing your love for the music with your own sexy dance style rather than these stilted moves.
