stilted

How To Use stilted In A Sentence

• Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
• And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
• In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon. Banking On the Future
• His delivery is stilted, stiff, uninflected - except when he's permitted to shout, at which point he relaxes and seems to forget to be inhibited.
• Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue. Times, Sunday Times
• (A hootch is a long, single-story, stilted wooden building of typical Thai rural design. Thud Ridge
• In those days, his stilted style, forced delivery, and wonky timing were virtues, reinforcing our sense of his hypothetically heartwarming kidness.
• Besides their historical interest Cicero's letters are models of what good letters ought to be -- the expression of the writer's real thoughts and feelings in simple, unstilted language. Early European History
• He was taken entirely into her confidence, as will presently be seen, and she even called him in to assist her when she was conducting an elaborate and stilted epistolatory flirtation with Lord Peterborough. Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
• The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes. The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed