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Example sentences for: stilted

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But the writing is slow and stilted, and the situations already seem tired and didactic.
The pair of models who try to pick up Dr. Harford have dialogue so stilted that it could have been written by David Mamet.
She will soon be smarter than her mom and dad but is having trouble in school--no one can help with homework, and she's picked up the slurring, stilted speech patterns of her parents.
As a tragically repressed and alcoholic small-town cop, Nolte conveys a "fierce, anguished intensity" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Critics say Schrader's style is a perfect match for Russell Banks' novel, and that the director "has hit, in this exquisitely shaped, paced, painted, and edited production, a new, deep level of artistry" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Only complaint: The voice-over narration by Willem Dafoe (as Nolte's brother) is a bit stilted and portentous.
.. [but] by no means outrageous,” a third as “verbose or stilted,” and a fourth as “containing wording and punctuation that is clumsy, ambiguous, and redundant.”