Word: stiltedness
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The conversation was stilted. What I’d stumbled upon was an end-of-the-road hideaway in an area now controlled by Bosnian Muslims. Perhaps this small Catholic cell had been here during the ethnic cleansing, or maybe they were shuffled here thereafter—either way, this...
His interpretation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters was over three hours long, stilted with maddeningly long silent pauses and random Chopin nocturnes.
Over eight years on her nightly broadcasts, Xue virtually became the Oprah Winfrey of Nanjing, feeling the pain of female listeners while taking their calls and reading their letters on the air. While her own somewhat privileged background was hardly as harrowing, Xue still struggled with tough issues?facing early...
Director Nakata, like his characters, makes some missteps. Too many of his scares depend on Kuroki's or Kanno's agonizingly long head turns?a stilted device that feels like little more than Hitchcock-by-numbers. The film's climax?unsurprisingly, it involves a lot of water?is marred by...
The legacy of colonialism dealt Africa a brutal hand. First came the European slave-traders. Then when the flesh trade went out of fashion, the “civilizing mission” began. The colonizers forced complex societies into stilted political units and played clans off against each other, paving...