• While I am normally a stilted public speaker, there in Florida, the jokes came easy.

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  • On February 13th Ms Gillard gave a stilted interview in a television programme revisiting the coup against her predecessor.

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  • Although Pichette is a great speaker and presenter and while Huber and Wojcicki were clear in their remarks last night, the two newbies to the call last night read their scripts in a stilted and laconic way even by earnings call standards.

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  • As Obama began to falter through the midsection of the debate, Romney found his feet after a slightly stilted beginning.

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  • And weaker identification with parties can be a plus: some of the worst-governed bits of Britain have suffered badly from a tribal instinct among voters that has stilted political competition and led a single party to think it had a monopoly on power.

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  • Get off the map and into the Sunset Water Villa which is stilted over a quiet lagoon inlet on the Indian Ocean.

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  • While these discussions are often a useful forum for diplomacy, it is fair to say that these conversations can sometimes be stilted, characterized by predictable presentations rather than a spontaneous back-and-forth in which uncertainty can be expressed.

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  • While this may make for some stilted pictures, smiling is a good strategy anytime you are in front of a TV camera.

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  • If you stay the night, it is likely you will be offered accommodation in the stilted longhouse, sleeping on a thin mattress and eating whatever food is offered to you.

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  • Here, of their own free will, adults sat in the warm gloom and watched up to 10 puppets at any one time act out, albeit in manner even more stilted than the film, a mercifully abridged version of the musical.

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  • And plus, why would the fact that he spoke in stilted English, with stilted wording, why would such a successful businessman who had been in the US for many decades at that point have had the slightest impediment?

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  • So Mr. Kleiman, a professional photographer, volunteered to take less-stilted portraits of their daughter's classmates.

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  • From hilltop suites to stilted villas above blue lagoons, there's a wide range of luxurious accommodations to satisfy those looking to escape as well as those in search of one-of-a-kind experiences.

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  • The Commodore 64 was a closed system without expansion ports and a crummy poke-based version of BASIC that was outdated and stilted.

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  • Perhaps it was the chador, or the stilted words she chose, but when she spoke I felt like a Catholic schoolgirl being reprimanded by Mother Superior.

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  • She said she felt when you write out a speech, you use far more flowery language than if you are speaking to someone and you sound stilted and boring.

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