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stilted
1. After a few years of nothing but Christmas cards and the odd stilted letter between the two women, which Sheila skimmed over rather ineffectually, Don’s job in Italy ended and they went home to Scotland
2. The conversation feels stilted and awkward
3. After several fairly stilted and
4. ‘Roidon, it is my duty on behalf of Central Council to give you these specific instructions,’ the alien had said in his stilted English
5. Brock's interpretation was part fact and part revelation, so the conversation had been stilted and difficult
6. A voice from nowhere interjected suddenly, vibrant and warm, but somewhat stilted:
7. Ethan shook his head and his stilted smile had the look of tasting salt about it
8. She had been ready for days with her stilted, regretful little formula
9. Her English was slightly stilted when she said, “The world is undoubtedly astounded by what we hear
10. So they had relaxed and let the happy accordion music of French village songs surround them and take the place of what could only be stilted conversation
11. “Do you have tools?” the Egyptian inquired of Moshe in slightly stilted Hebrew
12. stilted heels anyway,” he said, smiling broadly, ever appreciating the
13. Satvinder met with the Director of the Academy as he withdrew from the molding pool before the stilted buildings
14. Siegemunde appeared on the ramparts of the stilted Academy and uttered a bolt spell
15. sounded stilted and awkward, like nothing Meares had heard before
16. you are,‖ he said in that same stilted Terran
17. JY, sensing concern walked around the vehicle with the stilted gait displayed by a fully cocked pit bulldog
18. He led them in a stilted and lifeless version of Onward Christian Soldiers
19. Their voices sounded stilted behind the masks, but were intelligible
20. There was no hiding the awkward pauses and stilted body language between the two leaders
21. “The grandiose ‘Imperial Infrastructures’ was the stilted idea of my fucked-up psyche, and as if man’s fate factors the times he lives in to shape his life, Harshad Mehta came onto the scene; can one ever fail to recall the euphoria he had helped generate in the bourses? Hadn’t business magazines, all and sundry that is, goaded the public to sell the family silver to invest in stocks? Oh, how the public issues of never-heard-of-entities without a factory shed to name came to be oversubscribed many times over; and when the bubble was burst as Mehta was caught stealing, how many became broke no one knows
22. “As I was bogged down with that thought, the negativity of it began to bother me; I was alive to the fact that the seeds of liaisons sprout in the stilted minds of the disaffected spouses, and if Ruma were to take a lover, the slight apart, won’t the scandal be scary
23. Why for sure Islam in the original form had outlived its utility to the poor believers, and if only the stilted media gets its act right to drive home this point into the minority minds, the interests of the Indian Musalmans would be well-served that its sophism is fouling
24. Gabriel wasn’t openly rude to Eris as we ate, but each time she tried to engage him in conversation, he replied with stilted, one worded answers
25. My stilted words soon gained momentum
26. The church service was stilted and formal and
27. She had managed to get in a few words with him the previous day but the conversation had been stilted
28. What the hell---life beyond orbit was rarely a matter of prudence and stilted decorum, and there was always something to be said for brute force
29. She wasn’t much of a small-talker, so the conversation was a bit stilted
30. “Is this because of work and your feeling stilted there?”
31. O'Reilly's voice had taken on the stilted cadence of a formal
32. So then she’d rush out to help put the clothes on the line and make stilted chitchat while all the words she couldn’t say poured through her head: Just come back home, Abigail, come back home and stop this
33. Instead, she tried to concentrate on his hands, the stilted moves of his fingers as he straightened everything once, then twice, then a third time, then a fourth
34. I forced myself not to drink the last two until I had the water tank in sight and by 4:30 there it was: the stilted legs of the burned fire lookout on a rise in the distance
35. What followed was a strange and stilted conversation
36. There’s something cocky and stilted about the way he moves, and of course that could be a sign that he’s just an ordinary druggie and petty thief
37. Next, I began a rather stilted interview with a women’s magazine and was trying to patiently answer ridiculous questions about my favorite fabrics when the conversation unexpectedly veered into uncharted territory
38. His English was good, if a little stilted
39. He took a stilted breath
40. A stilted way of putting it: a year after I embarked on my journey
41. It was stilted, precise, and rehearsed
42. He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas
43. He touched the books and listened to the air in the dim hallway where dinnertime voices drifted up from below and a door stood wide near his elbow, from which the faint scent of illness came and went, arrived and departed, with the stilted breathing of some patient within the room
44. “His appearance,—I forget what description you gave of his appearance;—a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thicksoled high-lows, eh?”