| His English-language plays, meanwhile, alternate between awkward literal translation and stiltedly formal speech. |
| It began with doggerel, spoken stiltedly by the quartet of presenters, who mocked what they had said but then continued to speak stiltedly throughout. |
| Seeing the carrots made her realise how hungry she had become during the preparations for the journey, and she walked rather stiltedly out of the hot, stuffy kitchen. |
| And so he trudges stiltedly along, treating the campaign as a grubby series of chores he must endure so as to assume his rightful place in the Oval Office. |
| Instead, Zigler has put together a stiltedly old-fashioned show, full of male bombast and female fluttering, with every moment of silence taken up by mugging or sight gags. |
| Friday night's show opened a little bit stiltedly, and you could have been momentarily forgiven for having 20-year-old flashbacks. |
