Stilted Sentence Examples

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  • First of all you've got your movement, which initially seems a little stilted on the ground.

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  • It's very romantic, even if the language is a bit stilted.

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  • Of New Kingdom tales, the story of the Two Brothers is frankly in the simplest speech of everyday life, while others are more stilted.

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  • We have sought to avoid archaism, jargon, and all that is either stilted or slipshod.

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  • Some of his language is a bit stilted at times, and there are some places where his precise meaning isn't clear.

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  • Actually, the nineteenth century text, tho somewhat stilted to modern ears, was not so difficult a read as might be thought.

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  • Consequently, an unnatural, rather stilted way of speaking would be required that the users may tire of quickly.

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  • To begin with, there's the constant use of the word one, which I find very stilted now.

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  • And the characters look and speak in a slightly stilted, clumsy way.

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  • But these sessions are typically very stilted and difficult to manage.

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  • Content written with one on Google's listings is often stilted and dry, if not shallow and meaningless.

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  • During the course of this we're treated to very artful dialog which gets across valuable information without sounding too stilted.

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  • A careful reading of the score to this English text reveals not a single false emphasis or loss of rhetorical point in the fitting of words to notes, nor a single extra note or halt in the music; and wherever the language seems stilted or absurd the original will be found to be at least equally so, while the spirit of Wagner's poetry is faithfully reflected.

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  • Bentley calls Prudentius " the Horace and Virgil of the Christians," but his diction is stilted and his metre often faulty.

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  • Like the Wycliffite Versions it is merely a secondary rendering from the Latin Vulgate, and it suffered from many of the defects which characterized these versions, extreme literalness, often stilted, ambiguous renderings, at times unintelligible except by a reference to the Latin original, as in Luke xxii.

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  • Some of his language is a bit stilted at times, and there are some places where his precise meaning is n't clear.

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  • First of all you 've got your movement, which initially seems a little stilted on the ground.

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  • To begin with, there 's the constant use of the word one, which I find very stilted now.

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  • Instead, we have to make do with a stilted conversation in the car.

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  • Instead of the rich colloquial language of the American worlds Twain grew up in we have here a stilted formal language.

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  • While this may give them a rather stilted reading style, it does mean that they are perfect for oral story-telling.

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  • His stilted manner has softened over the years into something much more relaxed.

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  • There seem to be awkward pauses, stilted banter and duff links all over the shop.

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  • Content written with one on Google 's listings is often stilted and dry, if not shallow and meaningless.

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  • During the course of this we 're treated to very artful dialog which gets across valuable information without sounding too stilted.

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  • Forest Lodge Phinda Private Game Reserve 16 stilted glass chalets hover between the forest floor below and towering torchwood trees above.

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  • The storyline potential and realistic scale of L.A. were marred by the okay graphics, stilted plot, cookie-cutter characters, and laughable dialogue.

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  • His Victorian scholarship also comes across stilted to the modern ear.

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  • Logan had seemed off in hindsight, his gestures unnatural and his talk stilted.

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  • Friends and strangers alike acted out their stilted scenes before dropping onto the page as words again.

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  • The arches of this period are semicircular and usually highly stilted.

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  • Monolithic columns of grey oriental granite (except one, which is of cipollino), evidently the spoils of older buildings, on each side support eight pointed arches much stilted.

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  • Speaking generally, they are characterized by a stilted, affected style and a tone of gross adulation.

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  • The facades presented continuous colonnades on each floor with semicircular high stilted arches, leaving a very small amount of wall space.

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  • Unfortunately for him the first orders sent to Billow by Gneisenau, chief of the staff, at midnight June 14-1 5, were written in so stilted and hazy a style that Billow did not consider any especial display of energy was required.

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  • Of the last quality evidence is furnished in the stilted style of his letters, and in the fact recorded by Seward that he never permitted his under-secretaries to sit in his presence.

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  • The anciennes cohues de France, gay, familiar and military, gave place to a stilted court life, a perpetual adoration, a very ceremonious and very complicated ritual, in which the demigod pontificated even in his dressing-gown.

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  • The Wassermann twins, sainted boys according to the stilted account, had been all but ignored, accord­ing to the writer, Linda Segal, a name Dean didn't recognize.

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  • But, generally speaking, there was no heart in preaching, sermons were unimpassioned, stilted and formal presentations of ethics and apologetics, seldom delivered extempore.

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  • Most of the compositions in the literary language, whether old or archaistic, are in a stilted style and often with parallelisms of phrase like those of Hebrew poetry.

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  • Af ter the death of Holberg, the affectation of Gallicism had reappeared in Denmark; and the tragedies of Voltaire, with their stilted rhetoric, were the most popular dramas of the day.

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  • At present few persons beyond their teens would care to read it through, so unnatural and stilted is its language, so thin its material and so consciously mediated its sentiment.

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  • The Letters, which are very stilted, also reveal Apollinaris as a man of genial temper, fond of good living and of pleasure.

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  • In his youth he had been a playgoer, but he shortly came to the conclusion that tragedy is a stilted and bombastic art, and after a time comedy interested him no more than tragedy.

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