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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.
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.
Back in Paris, he painted stilted idylls in the countryside, utopias no one would want to live in.
But the writing is slow and stilted, and the situations already seem tired and didactic.
Ryder and Weaver have exchanges as stilted as anything in Plan 9 From Outer Space --surprisingly, since Whedon (who wrote Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Toy Story , and did the uncredited rewrite of Speed ) has a pretty good ear.