Sentence examples for stilted manner from inspiring English sources

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

But like the presidential campaign itself, the protests lack numbers and fire.Ordinarily, his opponents might have been able to exploit Mr Lee's stilted manner.

Although he wrote much in the stilted manner of the Neoclassicists, such poems as "The Indian Burying Ground," "The Wild Honey Suckle," "To a Caty-did," and "On a Honey Bee" were romantic lyrics of real grace and feeling that were forerunners of a literary movement destined to be important in the 19th century.

A telling example of how the political landscape has shifted for Mr. Edwards is that before the terrorist attacks, he was considered so nimble on television that advisers to a current rival for the White House made their candidate study videotapes of the senator on Sunday public affairs programs to reform his stilted manner.

The officials either talk in a stilted manner, or keep silent.

Otherwise, our economy may continue to grow, but in such a stilted manner that the whole house of cards that American capitalism has built over the past few decades will come crashing down, and destroy any value that may have been generated in the process -- for everyone.

From the English elite they adopted stilted manners and a level of understatement that caused them to call their stately homes 'cottages'cottages

For Mr. Wyler has taken this drama, which is essentially of the drawing-room and particularly of an era of stilted manners and rigid attitudes, and has made it into a motion picture that crackles with allusive life and fire in its tender and agonized telling of an extraordinarily characterful tale.

The line about the Stones - "with Mick Jagger" - is so richly ludicrous, I wondered if there was some weird pastiche afoot; an attempt to deliver modern times in a deliberately stilted, anachronistic manner so as to simulate the weatherbeaten patina of a "classic".

No phony, artificial or stilted mannerisms.

White, an odd-looking figure with a stilted speaking manner, is not necessarily a welcome visual presence in them.