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Example sentences for: stilted

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The humorless, stilted quality of Miller's writing makes Salesman feel like a dental extraction.
) Boo's brief boils down to two main charges: that Dowd's breezy, sardonic style has inspired a flood of stilted, self-conscious imitators; and that "the Dowd crowd" contributed to the erosion of political discourse by placing style and personality above seriousness and substance.
There's a big dollop of xenophobia here--old mummy pictures are full of stilted English actors pretending to be icily vengeful Egyptians--but there's also a less chauvinistic implication: a rebuke to our Western-imperialist sense of entitlement.
Back in Paris, he painted stilted idylls in the countryside, utopias no one would want to live in.
Ah, well: There is nothing intrinsically wrong with the passive voice, and the active voice sometimes sounds stilted.