Sentence examples for somewhat stilted from inspiring English sources

It makes your discussion about this somewhat stilted".

You are now actually juggling, but doing it in a somewhat stilted manner.

The dances were somewhat stilted in such a bland theatrical atmosphere.

The sound quality is quite crackly, and Mr. Romney is clearly reading, in somewhat stilted fashion, from a text.

This somewhat stilted new play, by the actor-turned-writer Nigel Planer, is really two short biodramas joined at the hip.

That novel, with its 1962 cover and somewhat stilted translation, done originally for a British publisher, was just reissued by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

These features of the narrator's character are revealed early on, in the somewhat formal, stilted voice with which the entire story is told: "I did not mind my solitariness: I was able to read a lot, and wanted to find out how things worked.

The Birth of a Nation has been subsumed and finally drowned by in its own controversy, but some of the lack of buoyancy may also reside in its own stilted and somewhat narrow design.

If our modernist eyes see these photographs as stilted and even somewhat creepy, our modern-day anxieties about children and sexuality make Dodgson's pictures of little girls in nightgowns and off-the-shoulder costumes seem more than a little perverse.

But back in the garret Mimì's death scene seemed stilted, marred by Ms. Marambio's hackneyed coughs and Mr. Villazón's somewhat implausible sobs.

The engaging but somewhat "antiqued" diction of "The Lord of the Rings" was preceded by an often stilted pseudoheroic style in "The Lost Tales". The many compound nouns, phrases strung loosely together and mid-paragraph temporal shifts give the impression that the myths were translated from Old English by a literal-minded translator.