Wedekind's farcical flights and stylized, deliberately stilted dialogue (in the translation by Carl R. Mueller) invite just such an approach.
The ceremony itself was marked by often stilted dialogue between the emcees, officials and the football stars enlisted to help.
Beneath its preposterous comic-book gore, gothic soundtrack, acreage of glistening flesh and stilted dialogue, Spartacus remains a gripping, intelligently crafted saga of powerplay and vengeance.
Lurid and bloody, with an odd color scheme and often purposely stilted dialogue that add to the demented reality Mr. Miike created, A.O. Scott writes.
As a novel, however, it's artless and inept, spoiled by mouthpiece characters, stilted dialogue, clumsy information-dumps and a near-absence of dramatic tension.
But as "Tom and Viv" tells the ghastly story of Eliot's marriage to Vivien Haigh-Wood, Mr. Dafoe's stunningly sharp, sympathetic portrait raises the film above a script that is full of serious holes and stilted dialogue.
(Along with its dying heroine, the clunkiness of those episodes must have hurt the film's chances for release.) Ms. Plimpton is given impossibly stilted dialogue and delivers it stiffly.
In other words, Bay knows to throw the meaty cinematic bones of Tucci's arch wit and Wahlberg's insolent intensity to parents who are taking their children to the movie even as he hews the colossal robots' stilted dialogue to the scale of granitic tweets.
But there's a world of difference between listening to a song with incomprehensible lyrics and watching an incomprehensible play with wilfully stilted dialogue, in which puzzling epigrams collide with clunky exposition: "You were sent here from another planet and you never got back home to your family.
While the genre of the historical novel is inevitably freighted with what Wood calls "fake heirlooms" — overblown set scenes, staginess, stilted dialogue — Mitchell overcomes these obstacles, involving the reader in his invented world with a "kind of warmth, a charming earnestness" that renders his book a "formidable marvel".
