Word: stiltedness
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Frustrated by North Korea's renewed threat to drop out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, President Clinton issued an attention-getting warning: If North Korea uses an atomic weapon, he said, "we would quickly and overwhelmingly retaliate . . . It would mean the end of their country as they know it." Pyongyang...
My friends, don't get lost in the study of turtles. Endless, vertiginous self-examination leads not only to a sterile moral life, but also to a stilted intellectual life. Yes, examine. But do it with dispatch and modesty and then get on with it: Act and go and seek...
Thanks largely to the explosion of information, dinosaurs are more popular than ever -- if that's possible. In light of the new insights, museums around the world are revamping musty exhibits or installing new ones. They are rearranging the old stilted skeletons on display into new dynamic poses and adding...
The best moments occur with most of the cast on stage. No stilted choreography mars the action. With a few exceptions (notably the hollow scenes featuring only loving couple Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo or only Yum-Yum and her two maids), director Michele Travis smoothly guides her cast through...
Sometimes this effect works nicely, especially in a scene where Medea flinches at Jason's touch; the abstracted, impersonal movements of the characters up to this point render this contact all the more frightening. But usually the mechanical, showy movements just make the actors seem stilted and vaguely uncomfortable.