stilted

• “But there's a certain ... stilted character to them that I came to realize was the emergent property of all those swirling styles and ideas, cross-pollinating and recombining outside of the Anglo Bubble.”

  SFWA European Hall of Fame: a chance to read sf from outside of the Anglo Bubble - Boing Boing

• “If you look at their NASA Message Construct all you get are partial, generic ideas contained in stilted sentences - including what to say in a proverbial "Elevator Speech" with someone (I am guessing here) who wants to know what NASA does.”

  The Consequences of Foot-in-Mouth - NASA Watch

• “I shall type in stilted sentences, where humorous.”

  September 5th, 2005

• “Perhaps the treatment of reformers like Mirdamadi and Abdi explains why some of the gerogan-girha tend to speak in stilted euphemisms, even when they are discussing events now a quarter of a century old.”

  Among the Hostage-Takers

• “In such cases, the gait is stilted, that is, there is incomplete advancement of both members and, of course, the period of weight bearing is correspondingly shortened; hence the short strides.”

  Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1

• “Where the centre is at a point above the diameter, it is called a stilted arch.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize

• “Too often, the record sounds forced and stilted, which is unfortunate, since jazz/hip-hop fusion need a musician of Redman's caliber to make it credible in the jazz world.”

  AvaxHome RSS:

• “At first Obama resisted, then joined with moves that could be described as stilted, before he abandoned the effort and mingled with the kids.”

  KansasCity.com: Front Page

• “In fact, to call the stilted, off-topic, everything-but-policy exchange between Libertas founder Declan Ganley and Greens leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit in Brussels yesterday evening a debate would be generous.”

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• “And Congress promises to limit executive pay, bonuses and other benefits of top executives, who were roundly criticized after flying corporate jets to two days of hearings this week and providing what many lawmakers called stilted, incomplete answers.”

  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED

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