Make this simple adjustment to how you shoot and watch the stiltedness of your shots be replaced with spontaneity. ❋ Kevin Sintumuang (2011)
These commercials have all the stiltedness and eccentricity of regular local commercials with an added layer of cleverness see their SOBERING Tattoo Commercial, in which tattoo artists from Austin, Texas' True Blue Tattoo gravely list the repercussions that come from being inked, like, "Elderly women will be afraid of you". ❋ Unknown (2011)
These baroque descriptions are generously translated into English by Malcolm Imrie without a hint of stiltedness. ❋ Tobias Grey (2011)
Donovan (like Carman, a recent Catholic University graduate) has moments of stiltedness as Elaine, but Slice Hicks glowers drolly as Mr. Braddock, and Colin Smith is quite funny as a vulgar Mr. Robinson. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It improved by about halfway in, so it had a better rhythm to it, but that stiltedness returned, intermittently. ❋ Peter Rozovsky (2010)
She popped out of the pages and was so powerful a presence that I was able to overcome the stiltedness of Berlinski vs Berlsinski vs Berlinski. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The vivid detail of the delicate white china and the black lacquer draw attention to each separate description, emphasizing the stiltedness. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He suffered from much less of the stiltedness and pointless exposition that plagued Lee and all the other Silver Age writers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There is a reason why the best novelists worry no more about authentic dialogue than is necessary to avoid outright stiltedness. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The masculine counterpart to the ladies 'prose poetry is a bold, Melvillean stiltedness, better known to readers of book reviews as "muscular" prose. ❋ Unknown (2001)
More to the point, especially considering The New York Times's praise of All the Pretty Horses for its "realistic dialogue," is the stiltedness with which the conversation is reproduced. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Moving briskly, she returned the ticket packet to her purse, a certain stiltedness in her actions. ❋ Janet Dailey (1985)
But it is gratifying to notice the emphasis that professors and teachers of business English are placing on the avoidance of these horrors and on the adoption of a method of writing in which one says exactly what one means and says it gracefully and without stiltedness or intimacy. ❋ Mary Owens Crowther (N/A)
The inactive jaw, tongue, and lips must be made mobile, and in the working away of clumsiness and slovenliness of speech, some degree of stiltedness must perhaps, for a time, be in evidence, but matured practice ought finally to result, not only in accuracy and finish, but in simplicity and ease in speaking. ❋ Irvah Lester Winter (N/A)
