Voorbeelden van stilted

• The language is stilted, typical 'translatorese', so much so that some sentences are virtually incomprehensible.

• The text, in traditional number-opera format, is indeed stilted and dreary.

• As a kind of diary, in parts it is written in the stilted, abbreviated manner of that genre.

• Too much emphasis on any one element would lead to the production of narratives which were stilted and not naturalistic.

• The rhetoric of his speeches is also somewhat stilted and archaic, probably by design.

• The lines, spoken staccato by the actors, are choppy, stilted fragments rather than smooth streams of input.

• Besides, the mensural interpretation was artificial and yielded stilted transcriptions.

• In his serenade, for example, the rhymes are obvious and stilted; more grotesque still are the violations of metre and the misplaced accents.

• Because of the small sample of stilted trees, only unbuttressed and buttressed trees are considered hereafter.

• The former is fine, if a little stilted, while the latter is quite awkward with either passive auxiliary.

• Echoing, and technological attempts at dealing with it, render much of the speech stilted and prone to breakdown.

• Although somewhat stilted due to its verb-initial order, this sentence is grammatical, embedded in a larger narrative context.

• Because the language of the popular press is lively and colloquial, in contrast to the stilted formulaic language of official publications, people believe what it says is true.

• In fact, to describe the central performances in these terms could be misleading: to our eyes, the acting looks mannered, with a rather stilted, melodramatic quality about it.

• Photius' style is impersonal, not to say stilted, and he would hardly have needed to tell his brother who their father was.