| The restaurant guests seem to be a lot of older foreign tourists, so the atmosphere is a little stilted. |
| Populated by some 68 indigenous ethic minorities, its spectacularly rugged countryside is dotted with their villages of stilted huts. |
| House of the Spirits was stilted and ponderous and written with a poor command of the nuances of English. |
| The lead children don't gel convincingly as a family unit and their performances, on the whole, are stilted. |
| I topped up her beaker a few times and we made an effort at conversation, but it was forced and stilted. |
| Without being stilted or pedantic about it, Sontag sums up the history of stagecraft back to the Elizabethans. |
