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When he can't raise the money and concludes, "Aesthetically, I'm not ready," Borchardt hauls the abandoned Coven out of mothballs in spite of its "stilted" performances and sets about the seemingly impossible task of raising money to finish it.
Moreover, behind the glossy covers and stilted prose, many of these little journals function as the gossip rags, the People magazines, for the science niches.
) 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.
But the writing is slow and stilted, and the situations already seem tired and didactic.
John Wycliffe had rendered this in English in 1382, but that was pre-printing press, and hand copies of this stilted, verbatim Lollard construction were scarce.