Sentence examples for stilted style from inspiring English sources

At $1.98 million, it doubled the highest expectations despite its stilted style.

Wilson had at least one play, "The Coldest Day of the Year," produced in this stilted style.

I skimmed the book to get a feel for the stilted style, as well as for the interminable, highly unerotic descriptions of sexual encounters.

When photographers with a more modern approach to the form started to come to the magazine in later years, Beaton did not adapt his stilted style.

This stilted style was noticeable especially in historiography, which produced an abundance of works beginning in the Mongol period (see below The Mongol and Timurid period).

Farah writes in a stilted, awkward style, where all the characters sound the same, and from time to time the meaning of a sentence is impenetrable.

They were in the stilted Byzantine style, but they seemed imbued with an extraordinary modern sensibility: the flat figures looked at you with rounded, lively eyes, as if they might say hello to you on the street.

The action occurs in the living room of a smugly liberal couple, Iben (Ms. Pettersson) and Kim Brian Smolinn), whose bourgeois disengagement is meant to contrast sharply with the intensity of their dinner guest, Carsten (Albert Bendix, whose stilted speaking style distracts).

That afternoon, as we talked in this stilted, earnest style — covering such esteemed topics as backrubs and stray socks, the utter banalities of married life — I felt a trapdoor crack open in our marriage.

NATIONAL A campaign notebook article on Tuesday about a bus tour by Mitt Romney and his efforts to brush up on his sometimes awkward banter with voters referred incorrectly to the role of Naomi Wolf in the 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore, who was also criticized for his stilted campaign style.

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.