Sentence examples for stilted tone from inspiring English sources

A soft baseline beats, as two sensitive friends named Gary and Steve discuss dinner, girlfriends and other mundane subjects in a stilted tone, filled with sad, pregnant pauses.

Despite the juicy details and fascinating topic, it's disappointing that the stilted tone makes it so difficult to connect emotionally with this important story.

I got the quick sense, by the stiffness in her body and the stilted tone of her voice that she wished she'd simply kept her mouth shut and let us pass.

It wasn't brilliantly written, partly because it adopted a stilted tone-for-strangers quite unlike the one she used when talking to me, but there were the stories I remembered: of my great-great-grandmother and her tribe of 12 surviving children, of sadistic nursemaids, marital hypocrisy and thwarted love.

They speak sentences in mechanical, stilted tones, which give off a weary air of been there, done that.

But every Pettibon phrasing sounds like a quotation from someone else, often in the formal, slightly stilted tones of a Victorian wordsmith.

In calm though somewhat stilted tones, Cantlie declares: "The battle for Kobani is coming to an end.

The pitch-perfect first half of the novel demonstrates that Clark is not only an adept stylist -- the pompous, slightly stilted tones of his narrator vividly evoke Leveraux's stuffy, square conservative British expat -- but possesses a flair for pacing.

It's too scripted to be standup, but it aims at a conversational tone that rings stilted in the opening stages.

Parts of "Cortège" look stilted.

Moreover, scripted videos sometimes feel unrealistic or stilted.