Trump's publicly awkward relationship with wife Melania is well-documented, as is his stilted stilted defense of son Donald Trump Jr. following revelations regarding a problematic pre-election meeting at Trump Tower.
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The dialogue is stilted, and Jaden Smith sounds dead inside.
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Until now, Facebook's success has come despite Zuckerberg's stilted manner.
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But email doesn't have to be so stilted, so burdensome.
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Plus, any emotion is sucked dry by Taylor's stilted performance.
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Veiled shots at Hillary Clinton's stilted and uninspired campaign abound.
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Relax the sometimes stilted, lofty voice without dumbing it down.
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In the next take, C.K. slipped into a stilted locution.
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The language of the documents can be stilted, even bureaucratic.
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Professorial and stilted, the neuropsychologist had said of Jude's speech.
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The tone taken by many other sitcoms was more stilted.
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Dinners and car rides became for us silent, stilted affairs.
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And what they're actually saying gets a bit stilted at times.
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The dialogue can be stilted and the plotting can be jerky.
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We're cultivating a vernacular to understand our images beyond stilted paradigms.
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Even Trump offered this argument, although in a rather stilted manner.
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Why does this social network feel like a stilted Q&A?
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We watch it happen incrementally, in stilted conversation and silent tableaus.
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As a consequence the work has felt stilted and sometimes precious.
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Our conversation in the thrumming tapas bar seemed, finally, less stilted.
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It's stilted and robotic, but it almost felt like a conversation.
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Its stilted movements have been included in performers' dance routines for decades.
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It can be stilted and awkward — but it's more honest and transparent.
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No surprise, then, that the actors come off as stilted and unnatural.
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Epic battles between demons are occasionally interrupted by a stilted romantic subplot.
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Some Fed officials, however, have expressed concerns about stilted progress on inflation.
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Things turned south when trump froze them out but coverage always stilted.
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The Heart of Texas Facebook page is full of stilted, ungrammatical English.
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STANLEY FISCHER: --and talk-- to each other freely— SARA EISEN: It's stilted.
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But the results, at least in English, are often stilted and robotic.
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Already, many other Chinese media outlets just parrot the party's stilted language.
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He struggled with the lines; his English was wooden, the delivery stilted.
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Daniels looked closely at Beltre's stilted movements in the on-deck circle.
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It was an auspicious ending to what had been a stilted day.
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I really think Bullock could pull off Clinton's stilted/awkward side too.
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After a stilted but functional conversation, he tried to steal from my cooler.
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But King of the Monsters feels oddly stilted, even for a monster movie.
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Chopra and Malhotra are stilted and ineffective, and their chemistry is non-existent.
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He also explained how deleting texts makes for stilted friendships and missed plans.
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Often, when artists attempt to approach spiritual themes the end result is stilted.
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The stilted, scripted, sclerotic ways of tradition are not always terribly effective tactics.
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But don't memorize your answers, otherwise you come across as stilted and inauthentic.
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Trump said to a group of students in a somewhat stilted side conversation.
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She grew up in a shabby, stilted wooden house with no running water.
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The conversation is a bit stilted at first but we warm up quickly.
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Their few interactions were private — usually over the phone or in stilted correspondence.
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Much of our interaction with computers, however, has long been stilted and unnatural.
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After stilted greetings, Shipetiari's schoolteacher stood to say that the community was frustrated.
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The story, acting, and stilted character movements usually bore the hell out of me.
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It felt like they were having fun, although it did feel a bit stilted.
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Some have been abducted, usually reappearing on the mainland mouthing stilted confessions of guilt.
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A videoconference call to Tokyo with an awkward audio delay makes for stilted dialogue.
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This method has gotten pretty good over the years, but it still sounds stilted.
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I don't think there's ever a moment where the language feels stilted or unnatural.
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We did, in time, discuss my feelings about our stilted exchanges following my miscarriage.
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Since I learned of his affair, my interactions with my father have felt stilted.
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Fine's ornate and stilted sentences loop back on themselves, crammed with a zillion references.
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We won't need to type to them or to speak in stilted, halting voices.
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Instead, like many such projects, the movie has a stilted worthiness that constricts emotion.
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Mostly, you'll see a crude Keanu-ish model walking back and forth with stilted animations.
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The monotonous, stilted delivery sounds very close to the original version, but it's definitely different.
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They feature weird band numbers, stilted corporate banter, and a barrage of groan-worthy humor.
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They are bland in style and occasionally awkward to navigate, and the language is stilted.
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The comments made on the Senate floor were not of the usual stilted partisan flavor.
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Now, the convenience of titling has made translating librettos for performance seem pointless, even stilted.
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My relationship with my dad and his wife became increasingly stilted throughout my teenage years.
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His speech too is from another era — stilted, with old-timey phrases, a hypnotic rhythm.
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The stilted huts are made of wood and thatch or galvanized tin and concrete blocks.
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Even Parker's stilted Wednesday Addams impression as the clinical, scientific Millie doesn't verge into memorably bad.
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It's hard to imagine Riverdale handling a similar moment without forcing a stilted, go-nowhere confrontation.
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The first of two nights of debates here in the Motor City felt at times stilted.
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These artists' works fly in the face of the stilted airs and apathy of the flâneur.
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They sounded like Trump's tweets do when staffers control his account, but somehow even more stilted.
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In June, cabinet members heaped stilted praise on Trump for the cameras, and the audience winced.
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The results can sometimes feel stilted and forced, however, and Vanaman wanted something much more conversational.
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The stilted voice and limited interactions aren't exactly anything a power user would be excited by.
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Like Mr. A, the Question spoke in a stilted, didactic vernacular akin to a philosophical tract's.
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For the Spanish-speaking community, O'Rourke's response sounded stilted and cringeworthy if also a little endearing.
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Welles may have thought Kodar a fascinating screen subject, but here she's a stilted fetish object.
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Conversation is slow, limited, and stilted, and none of these bots could be mistaken for humans.
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Trump's often mendacious torrents of stilted rhetoric have already crushed common ground at home and polarized America.
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Google Translate, once known for producing stilted but passable translations, had begun producing fluid, highly accurate prose.
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No part of the game feels stilted or unnatural, and the flow of action always feels right.
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The market has been stilted by the strong Swiss franc, which makes life tough for Swiss companies.
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As much as I try to make something dark it will generally come out stilted and awkward.
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The BEV's URL still exists, a reminder of static HTML pages from the web's more stilted past.
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In Penepian Raya, another village, piles of leaves from a kratom tree are drying on stilted walkways.
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The occasionally stilted and unnaturally descriptive language of many of the interviewees raises an obvious red flag.
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Obviously, you don't have to give everyone you've taken on a stilted a whole break-up speech.
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The duo sparked some adverse social media commentary for their grim-faced expressions and more stilted moments.
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They end up being stilted and politicized, and folks are locked into the positions they already have.
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"These are stilted descriptions of women, but they're pretty good descriptions of bombs," Ahmad told the jury.
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" He then stood up unnaturally straight, and dropped into a stilted, mock-presidential voice: "I'm very presidential.
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If you're actively trying to tell a story about yourself, it might feel really awkward and stilted.
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Zeke Zelker's film about a radio promotional stunt gone awry suffers from awkward pacing and stilted dialogue.
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Cram the stilted clarity of a dictionary into the human mouth, and things turn giddy and unreal.
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The film's stilted acting, elliptical plot and surfeit of symbolism make its messages difficult to pin down.
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What thin creations these characters are — and how distorted they are by the stilted prose and characterizations.
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At best, it was a stilted gathering punctuated by starch-based courses and interludes of excruciating awkwardness.
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Gone was the stilted pseudoscience of Trek; in its place was an analog, organic, inhabited sci-fi.
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Their interactions feel far more natural and realistic than the sometimes stilted, formal scripts of Trek series past.
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Where it's harsh or stilted or opaque, or lyrical and flowing, or unambiguous, my writing should be too.
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You might imagine this as stilted or formal, but Tana makes brace-faced middle schoolers seem positively carefree.
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Instead, it's a stilted, stagy, hopelessly corny biopic, the kind of thing Walk Hard was meant to prevent.
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It was one of those stilted on-air celebrations, being Judd's last day before going on maternity leave.
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Their oddly stilted presence in political settings seems to transform all occasions, no matter how "presidential," into advertisements.
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Not everything comes off: some of the narrators' asides, apparently meant to be naturalistic, feel a bit stilted.
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Talking to each other felt natural and fun, not stilted and awkward, like so many app dates had.
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She is awkward and stilted as the demure bride but comes into her own as the warrior queen.
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Even once the outbreaks were detected, reactions were stilted, uncertain and under-resourced, all adding to public anxiety.
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Without the instant gratification of audible approval, he was awkward, stilted, and unsure of exactly where to interject.
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It sounds a bit like the slightly stilted voice he might use if he were reading an ad.
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The two men had a stilted relationship, even before the president decided to replace him with Mr. Bolton.
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In an unusually stilted performance, Sarah Palin, John McCain's running-mate in 2008, endorsed Donald Trump for president.
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The performers in Lanthimos's films all have a similar, idiosyncratic style, including a slightly stilted manner of speech.
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YouTube's stilted response to Maza showcases how ill-equipped the platform is to grapple with incitement to harassment.
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The result took a drubbing from critics who watched it; its production values did feel stilted and awkward.
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Most people—including Wes Anderson fans—have a problem with The Life Aquatic's stilted off-comedy and pretentiousness.
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When the official version of reality was tired and stilted, both stood out as seekers of the truth.
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He's precocious, indulged, needy, and vulnerable; more human than his human overseers, with their stilted, near robotic delivery.
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Before he disappeared through the door, he turned toward his wife and supporters and gave a stilted wave.
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Their speech is stilted and their manner robotic, but Andrew, satisfied they're not selling religion, lets them in.
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She borrows the genre's best aspects (pacing, stakes, excitement) and eschews its worst (gore, stilted dialogue, clumsy foreshadowing).
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I was finding Kimmy Robertson's delivery strangely stilted, like she was playing Lucy in a tub of molasses.
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She was disappointed with UberEats' response, which was a stilted, scripted explanation and a gift certificate for $25.
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In 2015, the boilerplate posts telling fans to go to Vegas in unsettlingly stilted social media speak disappeared.
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Tegg wonders whether this type of correspondence might help heal humanity's stilted, emotionally disconnected relationships with our leafy brethren.
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His introduction consists of him attempting to cut the line at a club using stilted and practically sniffled pleasantries.
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Yang was stilted and uncomfortable, and a repeat performance would likely bring an unmerciful end to his quixotic campaign.
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It can hold a stilted conversation, yes, but its one-liners seem to be prewritten responses to key words.
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More often than not, when things get hot and heavy in games, it tends to look stilted and wooden.
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After a stilted conversation, Ben basically asked her to make the most of the day and that was that.
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Instead, Hillary Clinton delivered stilted cliches that are unlikely to convince her detractors -- on either side of the aisle.
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They have a stilted, slow pacing to them, the dialogue resembling an impossibly long pan down a telephone cord.
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What followed was an insane cacophony of confused drums, nervous and cheap guitar melodies, and a stilted vocal melody.
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A brand name, "sponsored" label, stilted product shot or anything that looks asocial leads us to instantly tap past.
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Prior to his arrest, Chris gave stilted TV interviews on his front porch pleading for his family's safe return.
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Steve Blake and his stilted, dour, on-court joylessness evoked and represented those old times to everyone who watched.
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"What thin creations these characters are — and how distorted they are by the stilted prose and characterizations," she says.
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The result is hundreds of pictures, which, pieced together, resemble stilted moving-image footage from the pre-cinema age.
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After years of working in environments that ranged from stilted to toxic, he is a breath of fresh air.
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Yet those channels bear little resemblance to the dreary Soviet broadcasts with their stilted language and shabby production values.
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Not every bit is perfect; a few characters are unevenly developed and the language can feel stilted in places.
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To the best of my knowledge, it won't prejudice the investigation, but that's the stilted language the agency always uses.
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The fake release was written in stilted and grammatically incorrect English, but that clue to its inauthenticity disappeared when translated.
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Then, frustration at the unnatural, stilted conversation that ensues and having to answer dumb questions like, 'Toothpaste…crazy night planned?
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Mr Modi's stilted English may be awkward, but his aura of confidence declares the arrival of a bolder, stronger country.
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Tía Bebi felt stifled and stilted in a relationship and a family that didn't appreciate her talent or her complexity.
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After his family went missing, Watts appeared on television and made a stilted public plea for the trio's safe return.
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What's interesting is that you don't have to learn some stilted voice commands to talk to these apps via Siri.
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The experience — an increasingly stilted and inadequate word for virtual reality that falls between film and game — opens in darkness.
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The settlement featured at least five stilted structures, an internal walkway, and a fence that enclosed the group of dwellings.
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Assigned the stilted libretto by his composition teacher, he wrote the 60-minute score in three weeks, including the orchestration.
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She started writing a symbolic sort of book involving a ghost, but it was stilted and she gave it up.
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Emblematic of its noble but stilted ambitions is its casting of the Swedish actor Max von Sydow as Jesus Christ.
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Lisicky's marriage cannot achieve velocity in a story about her, and the result is stilted, not quite able to breathe.
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Drake's new, equally stilted opening verse further enhances that quality, somehow unique to Pharrell-helmed songs of the late decade.
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Scott borrows the best aspects of crime fiction (pacing, stakes, excitement) and avoids its worst (gore, stilted dialogue, clumsy foreshadowing).
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Even allowing for the unfavorable network environment of a CES show floor, the demonstration's responses were delayed and linguistically stilted.
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Now these same Atlantic rivers are fettered and tired, falling to the sea with the stilted tempo of the subjugated.
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The tiny 230-year-old lives peacefully in a snug, stilted house surrounded by papaya, lime and custard-apple trees.
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It's a remarkably eerie picture whose unnerving atmosphere is actually enhanced by the stilted B-movie quality of the acting.
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We line up along the railings of the traditional Khmer wooden house, looking down from the stilted patio, and wait.
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She deepens her voice, slows her speech, jerks her hands around in that stilted doll way politicians seem to love.
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Stilted as the show may be, Colton's food-taster is slippery, active, and finding its way into a lot of mouths!
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His stilted phone conversation with Elizabeth was arguably more awkward than Stan's toast, and it was a punch in the gut.
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Now, it isn't the greatest show: it's campy, the politics can be dull, and the acting is often stilted and awkward.
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Here and there, Mr. Whishaw overcomes Mr. Smith's stilted dialogue and Mr. Verbruggen's predilections for looming close-ups and circling cameras.
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He is unusually stilted at the beginning, as you might expect of a debutant on the autocue and the national stage.
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After years of hearing professional actors perform in games, going back to the stilted, choppy delivery in Resident Evil is jarring.
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Steven's stilted awkwardness is more reminiscent of Ardal O'Hanlon's dim-witted priest in "Father Ted" than of a standard movie doctor.
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These and a boatload of other conveniences are inherent to such a platform, assuming you don't mind a rather stilted voice.
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Much of the discourse has centered around social media addiction, stilted social skills, and, notably, increased feelings of isolation and depression.
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What it needs now is more episodes, a less stilted script, a stronger art style, and better use of physical space.
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What Happened suffers from stilted prose and insipid inspirational quotes, but that is par for the course for a political memoir.
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The stilted format makes it unlikely that a whole lot of information will be forthcoming at Monday night's much-hyped debate.
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Flashback to her flat and stilted 2012 speech at the Democratic National Committee convention and you will see a big difference.
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When she speaks, she delivers a stilted staccato description of a nuke hitting Manhattan that sounds like a Langston Hughes poem.
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While comprehensive in scope, Churchland's book is consistently dry, and the lack of connections between chapters makes for a stilted read.
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As we arrived, his mother and aunt were spending a rainy morning under their high-stilted house, weaving intricate cotton tapestries.
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While this approach yields results that are sometimes a little stilted, the movie is mostly as sweet as it is informative.
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Pausing and tripping slightly over his response, Zuckerberg said, "Doesn't feel like that to me," to a chorus of stilted laughter.
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In a painfully stilted morning appearance on CBS, Pete Buttigieg declared himself "100 percent that nominee" in front of Lizzo herself.
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Anyone who has seen footage of the Blanchards understands how stilted their behavior was, qualities that the actresses have dutifully captured.
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Most of the texts Mr. Sellars has selected come across onstage like statements or speeches, a device that becomes dramatically stilted.
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" Gower replied with bewilderment, telling the man he was from New Zealand but that only garnered a stilted response of "what Zealand?
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In the ensuing days, Chris made a televised plea for their safe return, raising suspicions with his strangely calm — even stilted — demeanor.
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Donnie Darko has a melancholy and desperation that's hard to roll your eyes at, even when its delivery is corny or stilted.
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"In Congress, I learned a powerful lesson -- strong women get things done," Giffords said, in stilted speech, the result of her injury.
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"To the best of my knowledge, it won't prejudice the investigation, but that's the stilted language the agency always uses," he continued.
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In the film's first trailer, Wiseau (played by James Franco) struggles through his stilted lines as the production team gets increasingly frustrated.
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But in cases like our cover flash, "Whom Cyril Ramaphosa should fire" felt so unacceptably stilted that our editors decided against it.
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The U.S. would have a real energy policy that would enable it to finally compete with OPEC at its own stilted game.
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In this stilted version, though, it feels more like Fox is ticking off a "Yep, this moment happened in the original" box.
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Tim Cook is still stilted, Phil Schiller still sounds like a car salesman, and Craig Federighi is still full of false bonhomie.
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For inexplicable reasons, Amy and I had almost nothing to talk about, and when we did, the conversation was stilted and awkward.
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So for many years I had to make do with brief, stilted conversations and photos that my husband would send by email.
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One person who was with him says he grimaced when he saw a clip on television, believing it looked stilted and robotic.
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Throughout, the narrative is polluted by clichés — "the battle for Bitcoin had just begun," we're told — and stilted attempts at recreating dialogue.
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Tyler and BK sling their arms over him in a series of stilted, broey embraces and the intro to "Cruise" slinks out.
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The alter-ego acts really stilted and forced, and is trying to fit into a representation of herself, but it's not working.
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But every Pettibon phrasing sounds like a quotation from someone else, often in the formal, slightly stilted tones of a Victorian wordsmith.
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Although, honestly, the stilted conversation between a reporter and the Neon does sound like one you might overhear at a networking event.
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I actually think some newspaper writing of a generation ago was too stilted, was too hard to follow, too hard to understand.
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Yet Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant and others that you're likely to hear from still tend to speak in stilted, robot-tinged voices.
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Just think about the early days (and some more recent ones) of using skills with Alexa, which often require stilted, specific commands.
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What results is neither fish nor fowl, but a disappointingly stilted hybrid that gathers momentum only to hit one roadblock after another.
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And why does it feel like he's always on top, always taunting us with wins, stilted promos, and tweets about the haters?
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So if my emotions are real — and as an actor, that's my goal — then the stilted, strange dialogue will seem real, too.
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It felt slightly stilted, a thing that I found weird since it feels so authentic when you're actually on the bike at home.
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The two accents are similar, but are also quite distinct in their own right — and Styles has a very proper stilted English accent.
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But Time Management is meant to be one solution to a problem with serious psychological consequences, including depression and stilted development in teens.
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But he will always find you, and the result will be ten long minutes of stilted conversation and crippling awkwardness. Always. X...cstasy?
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It's hard not to end up with awkward, stilted locutions that sacrifice clarity – and even information – for the sake of avoiding a pronoun.
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He riffs on everything from Mr. Temer's stilted, formal writing style to the graft scandals plaguing the interim president's two-month-old administration.
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The Girlfriend Experience places this trope within glass-walled hotel rooms and stuffy, dimly-lit bars, though, where conversation feels stilted and braggadocio.
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It will play out not only among stilted beach cottages and seaside resorts, but also in workaday towns and cities much farther west.
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That night, Emily Kikta's Hippolyta was astonishing for her sleek power, a contrast to Tuesday and the inconsistent, stilted dancing of Megan LeCrone.
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This is an arduous task, and it sometimes shows in the writing, which can be stilted in its reliance on quotes and documentation.
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The entire production was jerky and stilted, the cameras unsure of how to capture the scope of the venue without shortchanging the performances.
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Hepburn's charm in one of her most famous roles wars with the script's inevitably stilted, dated tone regarding matters of wealth and privilege.
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He again called Mr. Trump robotic for repeating catchphrases and one-liners, flipping around the criticism that Mr. Rubio can be a stilted speaker.
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That said, her commitment to impersonating the breathy tenor of Jackie's voice exacts a price, at least initially coming across as stilted and distracting.
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It's stilted and strange and has some trouble conveying precisely what the product does, owing in part to holographic representations of the product's functionality.
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For example, Paul Cadmus's "Stone Blossom: A Conversation Piece" feels like a stilted homoerotic take on Édouard Manet's "The Luncheon on the Grass" (1863).
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This could hurt their progress in the long run, as consumers will ignore their advances, having recalled their earlier stilted interactions and unproductive trials.
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Host Katy Perry made a few stilted Trump jokes and prayed for the people of Houston, and presenter Paris Jackson denounced white nationalist movements.
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Point is, conversation is already stilted and artificial on a dating platform so a little extra robot isn't going to seem any more awkward.
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These shows tend to be awkward, stilted, and annoyingly laudatory toward artists that haven't really warranted two and a half hours of unchallenged praise.
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Focus on mastering the stilted jumping, learn the enemies' patterns, and don't be afraid to look online for the ridiculously well-hidden secret hams.
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The old methods of creating speech from text produced the familiar but stilted voices we're all familiar with from the last decade or two.
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Drivers sometimes have to use stilted commands like "navigate" or "telephone" instead of speaking naturally — and still the systems don't always get it right.
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Those pals were actually gathered in the groom's home, but the real action was inside Altspace, where the charming, if slightly stilted, ceremony unfolded.
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As I found in my rather stilted conversation with Yunus, a lack of trust and a huge gulf still divide foreign workers from Malaysians.
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Not scripted, stilted emotions, but pure, full-on method acting surrender, pressed through a tiny pinprick of frustration at the core of his being.
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Production costs aside, that the film doesn't even acknowledge this possibility, let alone build it into its premise, makes it feel stilted and anachronistic.
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This is not the way of ordinary mortals, though, and the play's more explanatory dialogue can sound stilted in the mouths of her actors.
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"What this country needs is sensible, moderate, progressive Conservative government," declared Mr Johnson during a stilted performance in prime minister's questions on September 4th.
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Kairo's father is a Trotskyist prone to delivering stilted lectures on the rise of Sinhalese chauvinism and placing bets on horse races in England.
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The sentences in the letter are short, stilted, like the ones a parent might hear after asking her child how school was that day.
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Many of the accounts were crudely designed and used stilted, awkward language, and many of their posts were not widely shared throughout social media.
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The crew cut, the stilted cadence, and the briefcase all speak to a deeper mystery that fans have spent more than a decade untangling.
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Lee said that English versions of their announcements were grammatically sound but they usually seemed stilted in Korean, as if they were translated verbatim.
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Theirs can come across as stilted and willed, less recognizable as the workings of memory than as the preoccupations of a peculiar social class.
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From a cluing standpoint, the visual of the vertical line of M's is nice, but the constraint makes some of the clues sound stilted.
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At first pass, it revealed a depth and pliability in his songwriting few believed possible after the stilted commercialism of his debut Thank Me Later.
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Andromeda's writing has been dinged for swinging between colloquial and stilted, for being too on-the-nose with its characterizations, and for being over-earnest.
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Jenna's face tells audiences he can hurt her, but Earl's stilted nonchalance and the pains the show takes to downplay his controlling behavior contradict her.
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Kyle's constantly exposing me and a number of friends to just how silly and stilted and bizarre a lot of classic kids' shows really were.
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In Star Trek: The Original Series, set in the 23rd century but aired from 1966 to 1969, its onboard computer has a stilted, monotone voice.
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Not all these forays in new directions work: the song "Not In Kansas" strives too hard to be political, and is ambling and musically stilted.
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Archaeologists in Britain have uncovered the charred remains of a 3,000-year-old stilted wooden structure that plunged into the river after it caught fire.
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Though things get off to a slightly stilted start, Lauren eventually manages to win the family over, even shedding a few tears with Arie's mom.
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Kevin Durant, in a career-making performance as a slightly more stilted version of Kevin Durant, takes pity on the kid and signs his basketball.
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But this conversation felt totally stilted — I just don't buy that he's the only person who could compel her to look for the missing gladiator.
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After a half-decade of stilted moves, haphazard trades and bungled team-building, the Nets are still trying to gain their foothold in New York.
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But in the way this committed cast conveys the text, the words seem less like stilted slang than a regional dialect with an everyday elegance.
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Often relying on stilted scripts, logical fallacies, or blatant lies, these ads follow in a pre-TV tradition of anti-pot propaganda films as well.
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A cast of excellent actors stand around looking tentative, delivering stilted lines in scenery whose beauty is perhaps meant to take up the expressive slack.
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In 1999, though she didn't much like stilted aria contests, she entered the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition and won a surprising victory.
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Slender, silver-haired and impeccably dressed, Mr. Kushner, 63, was by turns charming, blunt and philosophical, an engaging contrast to Jared Kushner's more stilted persona.
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The idea to open her speech this way -- making light of her stilted dances during a trip to South Africa in August -- was all hers.
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Her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, was a prominent lawyer and the model for Atticus Finch, who shared his stilted diction and lofty sense of civic duty.
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A few years ago, Valleywag described his voice as "the stilted monotone of a man reading his own obituary," but he's become much smoother of late.
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Although deep learning means that machines can recognise speech more reliably and talk in a less stilted manner, they still don't understand the meaning of language.
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"Alexa, play the book The Hunger Games"The Echo can read out your Audible audiobooks and Kindle ebooks (though it's often in a stilted, robotic voice).
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You probably wouldn't be too suspicious if he sounded a bit robotic or stilted if he told you he was sick and driving through a tunnel.
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The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions both doubled up on the philosophy and visual flourishes, but failed to hide the robotic performances and stilted action.
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These games are also infamous for their stilted writing, overwrought dialogue, and plots that can go off the rails in pursuit of creating an emotional experience.
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If you talked to your friends the same way you talked during a job interview, it would probably give a stilted, distant feeling to the conversation.
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And while the memo was written in the stilted language of FBI-bureaucratese, Trump's wide-eyed comments were recorded with what seems like barely suppressed amusement.
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But my brother is taller than I feels stilted and stuffy to many perfectly educated native speakers, who would prefer my brother is taller than me.
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But important secondary characters like Roger, Ma Costa, Lord Asriel, and the Master of Jordan College are given stilted dialogue that reduces them to two dimensions.
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What starts as a stilted three-way conversation, with especially tense banter between a Republican, Democrat, and an Independent, quickly loosens up after a smoke session.
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Speakers blasted Cardi B while a stilted man carrying a scythe stalked the line and posed with people in front of a step-and-repeat backdrop.
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Back on the street, friends recounted their escapes in excited clumps, while two young women hid from the stilted man under the M20 bus stop shelter.
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He will split the populist vote with candidates like Kais Saied, a law professor dubbed "the robot" for his tendency to speak in stilted classical Arabic.
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Some of the dialogue here is "Dark Shadows"-level stilted — is there a mistress in TV history who hasn't had to deliver the "Sharing Him" speech?
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The three-minute clip offers stereotypes, stilted jokes and canned laughter, using a scissors-wielding man with a fake beard and a turban to represent India.
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Many things about A.A. irk, from the stilted 1930s syntax of its literature to its temperature-challenged (but no longer smoke-filled) church-basement meeting spaces.
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This was possibly the most stilted of the very smooth theme entries, and it did prompt an attempt to parse just what was going on here.
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As the stilted sample plays in the background, a kid in a knit cap slowly eats some sort of dry pasta while staring at the camera.
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It's an English-language production, and the variety of accents coupled with John Fusco's stilted dialogue call to mind an old Hollywood melodrama set in exotic lands.
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The majestic emotional arcs are missing, the narrative elements feel stilted and predictable, and a few too many of the good things are just BioWare copying itself.
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That's because some of the mystical-mumbo-jumbo dialogue -- as in, "Dormammu dwells in the dark dimension" -- could sound stilted or silly tripping off less talented tongues.
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Ailes, a mastermind of political messaging, is a formidable foe to the Clinton campaign, which continues to struggle with the perception that she is aloof and stilted.
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Everything from the flat sets to the stilted acting to the lamé costumes makes Ortega's Rocky Horror feels like it takes place at a middle school dance.
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This may explain why some people's text messages seem stilted or awkward: they're used to writing with a formal style that doesn't translate to the casual medium.
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This morning, Good Morning America pulled a muscle while stuffing a tweet with the stilted meme-speak of an FBI agent trying to infiltrate a Hearthstone subreddit.
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The characters have clearly differentiated voices; Dolssa sounds fancy and stilted for much of the book, while the sisters sound like the funny, earthy wenches they are.
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What makes NFL games so stuffy and stilted and inert, when they're bad, is when those obsessions overtake the game itself and slow it to a crawl.
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But there are stilted phrases in the resulting libretto, starting with the opening aria for the Assistant (the heroic wife), who at the beginning addresses the audience.
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The guide cautioned us to be quiet as we splashed through the wet fall leaves to what looked like a poacher's stand, a stilted old wooden structure.
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The live demos of their capabilities were stilted; the performances on their individual screens were essentially prerecorded bits, though they could respond to some basic voice commands.
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Unfortunately, some of his work you have to look at in a context of when it was done and the fact that he had a stilted lifeline.
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There's always the chance interpreter mode won't perfectly translate each side of the conversation back and forth, like we saw in a stilted demo from CES 2019.
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The narratives he told were strikingly similar, featuring inmates who not only freely admitted their guilt but also did so spontaneously in the same oddly stilted language.
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The more I read, the more convinced I became that Foos's stilted metaphysics were his way of attempting to elevate his disturbing pastime into something of value.
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A more damaging reason that his grief comes across as stilted, though, is that Mahajan, bent on demonstrating Vikas's self-absorption, quickly scrubs him of fatherly feeling.
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Doing so, he hopes, will help shatter the caricature of him as mechanical and stilted that developed after last week's Republican debate, when he repeated himself four times.
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Residents in the village of stilted wooden homes, narrow concrete footpaths and colorful small boats say sand dredging has plunged their once reasonably prosperous fishing community into poverty.
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Considering how digital assistants like Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa are all sounding more and more natural, I can't fathom why Jibo sounds so strangely stilted and robotic.
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Even boxing's great tacticians appear increasingly limited and stilted when compared to the all out expression of the human body's violent potential on display in the UFC octagon.
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They were pulled down in the immediate aftermath of the attack, but scraped versions found their way out, most of which were stilted music videos or exercise tutorials.
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Characters like Corvo, played by veteran voice actor Stephen Russell, can mutter exposition to themselves perfectly well, but sound stilted and clumsy when they're put into a conversation.
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Sometimes, mercifully, they would give away enough biographical material in the short stilted conversation that I'd be able to work out who they were, but not often enough.
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When he was a teenager living in Tehran, he found the rhythms of high school stilted, so he dropped out and started mostly hanging out in his bedroom.
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Having endured BlackBerry's painfully corporate and stilted presentation for the DTEK50 yesterday, I was preparing my jokes about an out-of-touch company delivering out-of-touch products.
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The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday advanced three spending bills for fiscal 2019 as it moves ahead with a process that has been largely stilted in recent years.
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Considering the degree to which Fargo restricts Manis's natural charisma with stilted, self-conscious shots, his decision to use a live animal in the first place is baffling.
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In Boca do Acre, a poor municipality of wooden stilted homes with 28,000 residents, the cattle industry accounts for more than 70 percent of the economy, officials said.
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As always, fast forward through the stilted intro and outro segments, but enjoy the genuinely good tricks and the warm camaraderie between the magicians and Penn and Teller.
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And though its prose can be a bit stilted (Suzette says things like, "We hustle to our respective sides of the car") the book feels urgent and true.
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Agrivoltaics, also called "solar sharing," first took off in Japan in 2004, after an engineer, Akira Nagashima, developed a stilted steel structure that raises panels 10 feet high.
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Of course, there's his unforgettable creation from the cult classic "Office Space": Milton, the stapler-obsessed arsonist hidden under extremely thick glasses, stilted speech and a pocket protector.
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As a result, a day spent semi-socializing with laptops and conversations stilted by email pings is more likely to extend into a night of working before a deadline.
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It's so taken up with making sure everything is set in place that it largely forgets to do anything other than offer up a long series of stilted introductions.
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But when it comes to skateboarding, most authors tend to describe things in broad, easily digestible strokes that feel stilted to anyone who's ever actually stepped on a skateboard.
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But its disjointed pile-up of abandoned subplots, inhumanly stilted acting, and anatomically improbable sex scenes have cemented its place as one of the worst films of all time.
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The artwork inside isn't as lush as Farinas' cover, but it still gives off a frantic, hurried vibe that suits the stilted dialogue—an homage to classic indie comics.
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Instead, Google will have to aggressively and quietly improve the Assistant until, sometime in the future, we look back and wonder how we lived with stilted and limited AIs.
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Her recent Between Two Ferns interview was stilted and weird, especially compared to Zach Galifianakis's interview with Obama, who clearly loves comedic chops-busting where Clinton merely tolerates it.
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" The Russians were eager to help, even saying in similarly stilted language, "please tell me if i can help u anyhow … it would be a great pleasure to me.
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Watching it once more from the perspective of someone who just spent two hours watching a live action reboot of CGI lions singing, the acting doesn't seem that stilted.
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Trump has long avoided using the Oval Office as a backdrop for his speeches, telling aides that previous presidents looked stilted and "flat" in the standard, straight-ahead camera angle.
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Details are slim on the new show, and the road to production has been a little stilted: TNT passed on the show last January after ordering a pilot in 2014.
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It's not the first time a robot has conducted an orchestra, either: Honda's humanoid robot Asimo did the same several years ago, though its movements are a bit more stilted.
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In Smor San, purple flowers grow out of a garden that she dug into a grave in front of her tiny, tidy stilted home, which is built from scrap materials.
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When Krystal returns to the coterie of waiting fellow competitors following her stilted conversation with Arie, Bibiana fully transforms into the fiery Latina she has been set up to become.
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Though I do look forward to a somewhat silly yet stilted video about the committee hearing to decide on this change at the beginning of the next big Apple keynote.
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There are a few stilted lines — "Stop using my HBO Go password" stands out as a little dated, and "Oh, kitty's got claws" should really only be said to cats.
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Reading off a teleprompter, the president said: Unfortunately for the president, his brief, stilted statement was too little too late, especially considering his long history of saying other racist shit.
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But while you'll be hard-pressed to find a more stereotypical Republican woman than the housewife who moonlights in this ad, she sounds a little too stilted to be convincing.
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In Sixteen Candles, the character Long Duk Dong (played by Gedde Watanabe) was also criticized for being racially insensitive to Asians when his stilted English was used for comedic effect.
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Last year, Google showed off WaveNet, a new way of generating speech that didn't rely on a bulky library of word bits or cheap shortcuts that result in stilted speech.
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There's a stilted quality to some of the performances that feels less a reflection of the actors themselves than a style choice that was also present on The Mindy Project.
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Odds are, it'll take many dinners of stilted conversation and muffled laughter with Kumail's parents before Emily stops being a symbol of difference to them, and starts being an individual.
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A few years ago, in response to stilted communication and romantic gestures in her own life and at large, Georgia Matsamaki began freezing different kinds of flowers and photographing them.
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Wein's writing still feels like the good ol' days of '60s and '70s scary stories, with gothic castles, languid narration, and stilted speech bringing this yesterday monster back to life.
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Stories that start with since the dawn of time, scientists have been concerned with or when it comes to [this issue], there's always [this problem] feel so stilted and formulaic.
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The more contemporary art I saw, though, the less I saw myself in the specific and stilted story of modernism — one favoring abstraction and male creators — that MoMA was chronicling.
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Some of the formalized lessons Lean In provided felt cheesy and stilted, like going around the group to declare, "I'm leaning into this circle because ..." But the group stayed committed.
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After a slow start (the somber Themysciran scene-setting and stilted, formal way the Amazons speak aren't much fun), the plot takes off, with a lot of action and humor.
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The clichés, plot holes, and stilted dialogue would all be forgivable if there were more fight scenes, and if the show wasn't so often soaked in its own sodden seriousness.
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And for those in search of slightly less rustic accommodations, the property also offers stone cabins with bunk beds and a stilted hillside bungalow, with a narrow river running below.
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While this style of self-expression may be closer to the way people really communicate than, say, the poetry of Shakespeare or Tennessee Williams, it can sometimes sound stilted onstage.
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Some of Trump's earlier speeches were stilted or stiff, but on Friday he was smoother and at times he left the script to improvise without going too far off track.
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Today's encounter between Mrs Merkel and Mrs May was awkward and stilted, which may be natural at a time when the latter is new and the former more concerned with America.
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Valerian has its faults (stilted dialogue, bafflingly spotty chemistry between the leads, third-act troubles), but it still makes the ultimate argument in favor of CGI's unique utility in blockbuster filmmaking.
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These are interspersed with stilted spoken passages in which Myrtle interacts with a few figures from long ago — but even with this trail of perpetual exposition, the plot remains largely impenetrable.
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As spotted by Brian Feldman, some enterprising soul has a set up a Twitch live stream that shows a pair of modified Google Home devices having a stilted, but determined, conversation.
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Even halfway decent voice command systems today require you to give an exact temperature to set the air conditioning in a stilted, "Set driver temperature to 70 degrees," or something similar.
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Logan Paul repeatedly stomps on a picture of his rival over an excruciatingly stilted ten seconds — excruciating in a way that betrays how forcibly this "beef" has been manufactured for attention.
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And yet an hour of "Glass" consists of her sitting opposite the three men, and having slow, stilted, cod-philosophical conversations in which she argues that they have delusions of grandeur.
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This sounded like it was made by AI. It was stilted, certain notes would repeat mechanically, and sometimes, a stray note or chord would play that was brashly out of key.
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Instead of only stilted conversations, the software lets companies integrate their customers relations management, employee resource planning, content management system's data, or anything other third-party API into their voice apps.
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Each manages to wed a sense of emotion and humor to the apparatus that might not be apparent in its stilted voice or lofty promises of the "Internet of things" revolution.
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While you can't really make or break a hookup if you say something awkward and stilted, phrasing things in a courteous way can make you and your partner feel more comfortable.
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It was the same with all of them: Reflective, thoughtful and raw conversations would turn stilted, canned and defiant as soon as I approached the subjects of Albany, indictments and convictions.
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O'Rourke disliked debates and preparing for them, and he felt after the encounter with Castro that he had been stilted and over-prepared, according to a source familiar with the campaign.
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Viersen's dated slang and stilted "wiggity-wiggity-wack" gestures are exactly as awkward as you'd expect, and his flow perpetually falls off the beat like the wheels from his party's momentum.
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I'm impressed with how deftly this show talks about political and social issues without feeling stilted, which is something TV has struggled with since the heyday of Lear's shows in the '70s.
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The dialogue is clunky, the delivery stilted, and the low production value makes it all feel like a flashback sequence from a very low-budget History Channel documentary about the Manson Family.
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" Last month, Joyce mocked Depp's stilted performance in the apology video, saying he "looked like he was auditioning for the Godfather" and urging him to re-shoot it with "a little gusto.
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People care about this movie, and its characters, no matter how many reviews jeer about lack of chemistry between Dornan and co-star Dakota Johnson, or unrealistic plot lines, and stilted dialogue.
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Often, the banter between co-presenters can be awkward and stilted, but these two managed to make a scripted moment genuinely enjoyable thanks to Oh's excellent acting and their combined comedic timing.
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The characters in the game don't feel like stilted, obvious tip-givers, either: the way characters interact with you to help you learn the basics of Pokémon training feels organic and inviting.
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Ellie is meant to sound like a tough guy on the run from his emotions, but comes across, fatally, as a Pakistani doing bad American he-man standup, slinging a stilted slang.
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Pamuk has a masterly control of mood in this section of the novel, and its sometimes stilted language seems apt for his half-formed, often arrogant, intellectually and sexually curious young narrator.
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It ascribed the titular outsiders a full and gleaming interior life, rich with dreams of the future and covert intimacy, not the stilted pop-up book reality of most mass-culture teens.
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The prime minister's response, characterized as stilted and lacking empathy, and her failure to meet with victims during an initial visit to the site only served to amplify complaints about her leadership.
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Until now it was fairly easy for us to figure out whether we are interacting with a person or a computer, be it the stilted prose or robotic voice of the latter.
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Built in 2017, the ecolodge consists of seven stilted houses and arranges two-to-four day tours of the area, which include planting or harvesting of the rice terraces alongside local inhabitants.
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Yet there are moments the writing seems odd, awkward or stilted, veering into grand, vaguely poetic metaphors that don't hold up, perhaps as if they might be translated from Gerson's native French.
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A couple of hours' drive from the Sunlight Seafood shrimp farm, inhabitants of the stilted village of Mapan Mapan have created a maze of sunken enclosures fenced with a barnacle-covered mesh.
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An Anglican parable based on a Japanese Noh play, it could be tediously precious, stilted, all the emotion in its story (a Madwoman searches for her son) suffocated under layers of stylization.
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But for as stilted and affectless as the films can be, they're tapped into something raw and real about how often seemingly stable societies collapse into fascism, into revolution, into political upheaval.
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The fans in the arenas are wild about you, and Sean Hannity is as loyal as they come, but Rudy and Christie and Newt are reassuring in that stilted way of hospital visitors.
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It's the people who grew up resenting the stilted presentations they had to make for history class taking back the power and repurposing it in a way that's actually fun – albeit incredibly deranged.
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Their meet-cute is an irritating extended riff on their names, conversation about how Isla looks vaguely familiar, and some other stilted small talk that will clearly mean something by the final act.
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Not only would they find the conversation stilted, but the bot wouldn't be able to chat about up-to-date topics like breaking news — something that came up frequently in last year's judging.
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The former FBI director's testimony has been notably shakier than his previous appearances on Capitol Hill, as many of his responses were halting and wobbly and his voice has been stilted at times.
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Their vehemence contrasted with Vice President Mike Pence's stilted, emotionless demeanor on Friday when he toured a massively overcrowded holding cage for men who crossed the border illegally in the Rio Grande Valley.
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News reports focused on the gaffe that hurt Mr Rubio just before New Hampshire's primary: a stilted performance in a TV debate when he used the same line on Mr Obama four times.
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When I asked if this was a computer, there was a pause, then a stilted "Yes, I'm a real person," followed by a too-fast pitch that didn't stop when it was interrupted.
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"The Extra" is an engaging, slack and sometimes frustrating novel, translated in dignified but stilted prose by Stuart Schoffman, that reflects both Yehoshua's gift for surreal comedy and his penchant for schoolmasterly expositions.
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Set right on the edge of the estuary that inspired Daphne Du Maurier's 1941 novel, "Frenchman's Creek," the stilted structure was built by her husband, Greg, to house the boats he lovingly restores.
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On Sunday night, he finally got his Oscar moment — 17 years after his win — with a solid albeit bizarrely presented performance that followed a stilted montage of Oscar-winning songs throughout Hollywood history.
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While the former FBI director confirmed damaging information about the President, he also gave what were often halting and stilted responses that did not deliver Democrats the damning, dramatic moment they were seeking.
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Jared, who has a more stilted bearing, is a listener and a helper-outer: he volunteers to officiate at weddings—he's done two—and performs pro-bono real-estate work for his friends.
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It includes Android Auto, Apple CarPlay and an updated infotainment system that can be upgraded with a user interface more like Amazon's Alexa, recognizing common speech rather than requiring users to learn stilted commands.
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Tonsfeldt said that the people at the house gave him vague, "stilted and forced" answers when questioned about the babies' delivery and that none of them would look at him directly, court documents said.
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Flat notes and stilted phrasing create a "performance of alienation" that positions the reader as a spectator viewing a world produced by exposition, flashbacks and jump cuts between memories, illusory subplots and red herrings.
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London producer Roly Porter remembers the days before dubstep was a dirty word, before it became so stilted and commodified that it sent Skrillex himself into the toned arms of pop prince Justin Bieber.
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Yes, some of that is on Grisham's stilted prose and finger-painter-grade adeptness at portraying emotions, but it's more that the simple, stolid story he tells has an inch of dust on it.
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Also problematic is Hawkins' American Sign Language, her only mode of communication in the film, which is abysmal -- halting, stilted and not at all like someone who'd been signing since she was a child.
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Performances are stilted because everyone is acting in front of a green screen, character motivations make little sense, and just keeping track of what is happening and why at any given moment is hard.
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While still far short of transparent, Mr. Burke and his team added briefings, sought to depend less on stilted prepared speeches and brought in associates who could talk to reporters in their own languages.
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Although in other sports it may be normal, for any longtime football fan, it surely feels foreign, stilted, even invasive to watch a referee pause a match midplay to consult a slow-motion video.
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One photographer thus gave us lively pictures of life as it was being lived, and the other, at much greater cost and with much more ambition, ended up delivering stilted images of dubious value.
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That perfectly reasonable possibility seems to be the catalyst for Alex Roe's revival at Metropolitan Playhouse — a regrettably fitful, stilted staging that muffles most of the humor and humanity of this creaky, peculiar play.
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Muilenburg is a lifelong Boeing engineer who fought a rising tide of public and regulatory scrutiny to try to steady the company during the crisis, but who failed to overcome a stilted public image.
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It has this stilted feeling as if they broke down their best hits to their component parts and rebuilt them from scratch—only to end up with a few leftover screws at the end.
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Since I wasn't always with my phone at the same time as she texted me, our conversations were stilted and one-sided, like trying to pour your heart out to the drive-through Starbucks barista.
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And so who cares if the dialogue is stilted, in Cameron's typical style, or that some of the most iconic scenes (particularly those taking place on the prow of the ship) are easy to parody?
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Tasha Robinson: What I want from the Oscars is the exact same thing I want every year: fewer stilted, scripted speeches and fake banter from the presenters, and more time for the winners to speak.
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Washington (CNN)Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus offered a stilted embrace of his party's presumptive nominee Wednesday, acknowledging that the fractious primary means some GOP voters need to heal before unifying behind Donald Trump.
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When he finally admitted, in September 2013, that he had been involved with numerous trans women, his "confession" was stilted on the arbitrary technicalities that men, in desperation, rely on to salvage their lost masculinity.
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It's a loving parody that reminds the audience that Revenge of the Sith's more objectionable elements — the stilted dialogue, bad acting, and bizarrely misogynistic plotting — can still be fun, especially through a lo-fi lens.
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But it's come at a price: the city is overcrowded, and extremely expensive, and feeling increasingly stratified and stilted, and there are still a lot of questions over how and if that will be resolved.
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Deep performances, particularly from Anika Noni Rose as Kunta Kinte's daughter, Kizzy, and strong production values go a long way, but there are a few moments that feel a little stilted, particularly toward the end.
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Here, Ms. Chemla's body language and facial expressions suggest more than makeup and costume could do; as in Mr. Brizé's 2009 film "Mademoiselle Chambon," another literary adaptation, unarticulated emotion seethes beneath painfully stilted public appearance.
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Similarly, Sherman-Palladino's trademark rat-a-tat banter feels extra-stilted funneled through this nice Jewish girl and her extended circle, until everyone sounds the same -- as if they're participating in a Catskills comedy skit.
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There is no nod to newcomers, the movie just starts: orcs, humans, griffins (I think), and a stray elf or two, begin talking in a stilted cadence about even more creatures you haven't yet met.
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"We have never seen so much flooding growing up here in the village," said Ng, 74, sitting expressionless and bare-chested outside his stilted home, just days after Super Typhoon Mangkhut swept through in September.
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But the stilted dialogue and cringey one-liners courtesy of a screenplay by scribe Matt Johnson(also known for his 2005 Paul Walker / Jessica Alba deep diving thrill ride Into The Blue) doesn't help matters.
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Also, always take the time to look deeper into a seller, checking the other products they offer and noting any warning signs like consistent complaints or multiple occurrences of stilted language and bad product pictures.
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"Although the show creates a ruthless world - the action is brutal and visceral, and the story advances quickly - it's not inventive enough to overcome the stilted dialogue and stock characters," wrote Brian Lowry of CNN.com.
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"Although the show creates a ruthless world - the action is brutal and visceral, and the story advances quickly - it's not inventive enough to overcome the stilted dialogue and stock characters," wrote Brian Lowry of CNN.com.
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Barrymore's reps told the HuffPost that the actress didn't participate in said interview, which was written in stilted sentences and contained awkward asides about Barrymore's weight and dating life, though Takla insisted the two had spoken.
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Independent sellers such as Reeves and her friend Alesha Smith, who owns her own pearl operation called Daisy's Pearl, depend entirely on organic shares or curious passersby, because the Live map is so buggy and stilted.
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Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore famously derided the G-20 as "clothes without an emperor" – an allusion to the rather stilted group photo of besuited leaders who so often failed to act on their pledges.
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In the stilted language of tax opinion letters, the phrase "substantial authority" is a red flag that the lawyers believe the I.R.S. can be expected to rule against the taxpayer roughly two-thirds of the time.
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"The only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place," Graham said, in the oddly stilted language that is apparently his confessional style.
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The show's version of the black woman's experience feels pandering and stilted at times: a scrapbooked womanhood that's brimming with wit and complexity, but so deliberately curated that it feels artificial and almost devoid of personality.
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In the stilted language of tax opinion letters, the phrase "substantial authority" is a red flag that the lawyers believe the I.R.S. can be expected to rule against the taxpayer roughly two-thirds of the time.
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Today's AI technology can also generate these percepts — our devices can generate scenes and faces that never existed, clone voice to generate speech, and even write pithy (if stilted) responses to the emails in your inbox.
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But a few minutes into our stilted Q+A, I learned that Amanda was a server at a restaurant in Philadelphia, and that she had just hired a career coach to figure out her next move.
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There's some stilted exposition, and the principal men — Jean-Baptiste and Calvin (Michael Oloyede), who left the neighborhood for Columbia University a year ago and has hardly looked back — aren't as richly written as the women.
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Following an initial response that public relations experts criticized as stilted and lawyer-driven, Boeing has been on a charm offensive, with executives at the Paris Airshow last month repeatedly apologizing for the loss of life.
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For its first 20 minutes, the film seems a risible — if predictable — send-up of essentialist feminism; the FLA gals close their dinner prayer with "A-(wo)men" and shun all things male with stilted disgust.
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Murphy's singing and stuttering may indeed sound amateurish, stilted, but that's the point: he plays the accidental frontman, a music nerd on stage, nervously struggling to enact rituals of stardom he's observed so many times before.
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On the whole, the closing meditations in the stories tend to be stilted and ambivalent: "I hope that in Denver (or some other faraway town) Kitaru is happy," writes the narrator of "Yesterday" about a lost friend.
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We've seen "stunts" like this before, but they usually make the clues sound stilted; in Mr. Gordon's puzzle, the clues are so well written that the trick is barely noticeable, and it's delicious when you discover it.
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As they sipped tea and water and reviewed printouts of one of Mr. Abiy's speeches, several book club members observed that the new prime minister seems to steer clear of the stilted, anachronistic jargon of his predecessors.
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The real message of the latest video is that with five bullets, one camera and a stilted speech in a British accent, IS was hoping to obscure its grim strategic situation with an attention-grabbing media spectacle.
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In Episode II, just after Anakin's stilted and wooden line about how Obi-wan is the closest thing he has to a father, we get a brief glimpse of some of the sports in the Star Wars universe.
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Ilana says she thinks DM-sliding can be better than "traditional" online dating, because her conversation with her boyfriend-to-be felt more organic and less stilted than it would have in the confines of a dating app.
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The stilted transitions were a cut above Powerpoint's and the filters were a woeful precursor to Instagram's, but Movie Maker opened the door for enterprising fans to add their creative voice to the legacies of their favorite artists.
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Atkins found ways to make the stilted intervals portion more captivating, like asking us to say "hello" to our neighbor (as an introvert, I hate having to do this), and yell the number of reps before an interval.
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Depending on how you interpret the plot, this kind of stilted unreality is the whole point of Technolust, and the environments' off-ness can be funny — why does everyone keep so many spare PC graphics cards lying around?
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Every inch of virtual real estate devoted to Affleck's alarmingly shiny visage and bubbling rage over the NFL's Deflategate scandal was space that could've been devoted to a show that was otherwise stilted, hacky, and devoid of rhythm.
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By flattening the imagery, he draws attention to the central characters' movements and expressions — for example, the stilted onlookers in extravagant dress when Joan first approaches the Dauphin in hollowed-out chambers, or the Dauphin's funereal coronation sequence.
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While Girardi — acutely prepared but with a stilted personality — seemed the antithesis of the avuncular Torre, Cashman said it would be a mistake to think the Yankees would be turning toward somebody who was solely a master communicator.
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We want to bring people who know something about politics, who have something to say, who care about these issues, who aren't going to be part of a stilted, dead-language conversation that we're all very sick of.
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Compared with her other recent parts, it is a more spontaneous creation than Ms. Netrebko's serene Aida or her stilted Tosca, with the grandeur and sorrow of her Adriana Lecouvreur and a febrility that recalls her Lady Macbeth.
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In Battlefield, the actors' delivery was stilted, as if they were mimicking the slow, ponderous, 1970s Shakespeare productions that used to appear on the BBC, in which every word feels calculated to emphasize the gravity of Great Literature.
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And while the scene of Elizabeth eavesdropping on Stan's and Aderholt's significant others commiserating felt a tad stilted, it did provide a glimpse of how Stan's FBI work might prove to be a bomb that hasn't been entirely neutralized.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Friday further assurances on her Brexit deal were possible after European Union leaders told her they would not be renegotiating the treaty and scorned her stilted defense of Britain's departure.
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That could also lead to a new friend, but the worst-case scenario is slightly different: they're terrible, and now a stilted interaction between you and a bad person was on TV for everyone to see and cringe at.
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"We want to continue and I want to continue to build my relationship with Money Team Tokyo, I want to continue to come over here and bring other fighters over here," Mayweather explained during a somewhat stilted news conference.
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They justify its flat, stilted voice acting, ponderous illustrated cutscenes, and ham-fisted exposition — characters routinely interrupt your game to repeat bizarrely obvious quest goals, even when they're marked prominently on a map — as campy homages instead of missteps.
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The interview was not a success—the daughter wasn't used to him and their interaction was stilted—but it filled him with the desire to do better, and to "correct injustice" by helping other women in his friend's situation.
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By losing a major opening number—and ditching a stilted monologue from a host trying to show off every ounce of razzle and dazzle they've got—the show also gave presenters and recipients space to politicize the Oscars themselves.
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Albarn hones in on the Velvet Undergound founder's trademark stilted vocal delivery, and even exaggerates how stiff it is in places, creating a strong contrast between the song's title and the unnatural way those words are actually being delivered.
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But when he finally did go on the record, the colorful tales vanished, the free-flowing chat dried up, and his speech became so tortuously stilted that I had to ask why he was suddenly talking like a robot.
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Holmes, built up as a striking female entrepreneur with a heartfelt personal story, is revealed as stilted and vampiric onscreen; "The Inventor" includes a haunting scene in which she celebrates a company win by dancing robotically to MC Hammer.
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But the tone of the play is often stilted; even some of the jokes skim the surfaces of conversation, clarifying motivation, filling in backstory, exposing lies we already know to be lies, and failing to reach a deeper realism.
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And who exactly are these people forking over a month's pay for a stilted, five-second meet-and-greet with an actor whose last truly good film, the undisputed Christmas classic Jingle All The Way, came out in 216.
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This underlined something that had become all too clear during the campaign: that Mr Corbyn is simply a much better politician than Mrs May, warm where she is cold, natural where she is stilted, and human where she is robotic.
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He does feel a little stilted without a live audience to play off of (a problem he also suffers on Black-ish), but the bigger issue is that he barely gets anything fun to do as Kimmy's new love interest, Perry.
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I understand that some folks may just be happy to have a job with full pay and benefits — I'd never begrudge anyone that — but the unanimous and highly stilted positivity on display in these ambassador accounts really seems like something else.
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Influential Fed Governor Lael Brainard said on Tuesday a rate rise "likely will be appropriate soon," although she and some other Fed officials remain concerned about stilted progress on inflation meeting the Fed's 2 percent target rate in recent months.
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There are interesting confessions (an aborted beef with Lil Wayne among them), but his writing and once-chameleonic technical abilities had atrophied: he was rapping in shouted, stilted cadences and writing clunky biography full of groaning puns and scatalogical nonsense.
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Even before the scandal, Park's opponents called her "Chicken Geun-hye", both a play on words - her family name rhymes with chicken in Korean - and a reference to what they see as her lack of intellect and stilted public speaking.
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On Monday evening, State Drug Administration Deputy Director Xu Jinghe appeared on state-owned CCTV in an attempt to calm public concerns, but the footage provoked scorn, with social media users mocking Xu's expensive, blue Burberry polo shirt and stilted answers.
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The dialogue is stilted and often boring (when Serena Joy confronts Offred about handing off her infant to Emily, all June can say is "I did what was best for her"); every character seems trapped in her own private, hellish loop.
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He's a charismatic, diminutive shit talker and a relative latecomer to rap, who, in the intervening years between 459 Everything Fast and the forthcoming Realness Over Millions 2, has refined his initially stilted rapping into a smoother, more patient flow.
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Board of Education by joining the Citizens' Council, a sort of genteel K.K.K. Atticus is what the historian Isabel Wilkerson has called "a gentleman bigot," and "Watchman" is full of stilted exchanges between a benighted father and his more enlightened daughter.
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The show focuses on the five young television embeds (three men, two women), a slightly awkward and stilted Republican candidate (the fictional governor of Rhode Island, who certainly seems to resemble Mitt Romney) and the candidate's Iowa and national press secretaries.
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" Comparing it with some other recent new roles, "it is a more spontaneous creation than Ms. Netrebko's serene Aida or her stilted Tosca, with the grandeur and sorrow of her Adriana Lecouvreur and a febrility that recalls her Lady Macbeth.
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But it's undermined by a story that feels like it's checking off boxes — an interracial-romance subplot, a police chokehold case, a White Lives Matter protest — as well as stilted, didactic dialogue and a stiff central performance by Mr. Noszka.
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I therefore write this in the hope of furthering the national conversation, a conversation that must not be stilted by the participants simply retreating to their corners to talk into their respective mirrors about their own steadfast views on a subject.
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As the novel's narrator, Sister Johanna dutifully outlines the events of her life in a manner that, at best, takes on the ruminative, poetic quality of whispered confidence, and, at worst, is the painfully formal, stilted address of an elderly nun.
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When Trump has met with victims' families after mass shootings or natural disasters in the past, he has conveyed a style of empathy that can sometimes feel stilted, particularly when compared to the freewheeling style he employs in most settings.
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When Trump has met with victims' families after mass shootings or natural disasters in the past, he has has conveyed a style of empathy that can sometimes feel stilted, particularly when compared to the freewheeling style he employs in most settings.
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She speaks in a stilted way, she can't actually "see" you because she doesn't yet have cameras for eyes, and she seems to be programmed to "peak horniness" as her main personality trait — but she's a lot better than Henry, her male counterpart.
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Directed by: Ralph S. SingletonWritten by: John EspositoBased on: "Graveyard Shift" (collected in Night Shift) Graveyard Shift has the industrial drabness and stilted plotting of The Mangler — but it's not a career low point for Robert Englund, which is an automatic improvement.
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But the walk was a group of twelve or so other lost souls, mostly making small talk, all varying degrees of stilted and sad, imbued with an implicit knowledge that we were there because we have serious problems we can't always manage.
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Up until now, these voices have been noticeably stilted and robotic, but researchers from AI startup Dessa have created what is by far the most convincing voice clone we've ever heard — perfectly mimicking the sound of MMA-commentator-turned-podcaster Joe Rogan.
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But every year, pundits still mull over ways to save the ceremony from itself, from the four-hour runtime, the stilted speeches, the sense of repetition, the long wait to get to the key awards, and the rush once we finally get there.
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Its mornings start with uniformed children singing the national anthem in front of the country's flag and reciting in stilted Japanese the pre-war Imperial Rescript on Education, containing commandments set out in 1890 to nurture "ideal" citizens under the Emperor Meiji.
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The dialogue is stilted (although how refreshing it is to not to have actors pretend to have an accent they do not have), and Coppola sometimes fails to live by her decision to filter events through Marie Antoinette's limited and sheltered perspective.
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We can all breath a collective sigh of relief as, thankfully, it seems that Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence were finally able to work things out after that awkward, stilted hug earlier this week during a Toronto International Film Festival press junket.
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Her stilted delivery of impossible-to-speak lines, her consistent mannerisms—every Kristen Stewart impression begins with pushing one's bangs aside and stammering a little—and her usually dour expression stuck in the public imagination, representing the worst of modern star acting.
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In the end, it's becoming the inevitable: a stilted, boring affair that allows those in attendance to hobnob and pat themselves on the back while the president comes down tougher on those that make jokes about him than those who commit murder.
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Needless to say, preoccupied doesn't even begin to describe my state of mind, and even when speaking to someone as jovial and perennially good-natured as Mr. Garvey, the conversation begins a bit stilted, and I find myself apologizing for my jittery state.
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The van punctuates their stilted small talk with automatic ding ding dings — Alex is craving Chick-fil-A, and Daniel needs to over-explain his made-up excuse for why he's filming their ride, something about a drunken driving P.S.A. for school.
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" Communications experts Juliana Silva and Bill McGowan saw it differently: an overhyped heavyweight prize fight in which Trump was scripted, stilted and "stripped of his mojo," and Pelosi and Schumer "about as animated as a modern rendition of 'American Gothic,' minus the pitchfork.
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She appeared stilted at first, particularly when one Republican — a veteran who had held a top-secret naval flight clearance — said he would have been "prosecuted and imprisoned" if he had handled classified information as she did on her private email server.
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Their growth was often stilted by the episodic format that dominated TV at the time, and the famously not-really-queer ethos of that universe kept a whole lot of interesting stories and avenues of representation firmly in "very special episode" territory.
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It was clued as "Methuselah" way back in 1963, and I am acutely aware that aging is an accomplishment and not a shortcoming, so whatever there is about the word that I find stilted I just need to get over, I guess.
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If the goal of these companies is to eventually have voice assistants that we can have natural-sounding conversations with -— rather than the kind of stilted back-and-forth that typifies these interactions today -— we will always need some manual review, Schaub said.
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In "The God of Carnage" (2006, with a film by Roman Polanski released in 2011), two little boys have a fight and their parents attempt to settle the matter; what begins as a stilted meeting of self-satisfied adults swiftly descends into chaos.
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Considering that Mr. Leung was unceremoniously denied a second term because he could not maintain in Hong Kong even the modicum of social harmony that Beijing demands, there was only one possible interpretation for the cordial, if stilted, exchange between the two men.
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Moncada looked stilted and unsteady as he fielded grounders and made throws, leaving some in the Yankees' contingent of scouts, coaches and executives — which included Hal Steinbrenner, the team's principal owner — to wonder immediately if the hype about Moncada, then 24, was misplaced.
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The whole world of Britain's Parliament — its effete codes of conduct, its arcane and stilted language, its reunions of Oxbridge school chums — seemed impossibly remote from the real, unfolding national crisis of Brexit, the process of extricating the country from the European Union.
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They're stilted and strange, with bland stories that get stuck in first gear, performances that can't escape director George Lucas's apparent desire to create an emotionless universe, and gratuitous visual effects that at times seem to be the movies' main reason to exist.
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Brown has a strong in-state brand and is a real progressive who's willing to credit Trump on things like tariffs; Renacci is a stilted speaker and has been hit for his history as a lobbyist, but he does have Trump's support.
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If the Russians want to pick winners and losers in the upcoming midterm elections, then a few dozen fake social media pages written in stilted English and buried among the gazillion other posts and tweets out there probably aren't going to move the needle.
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A student of the MFA painting program at Yale School of Art, Kyung Me expands upon her perceived gauche appearance and general uncomfortableness by titling each of her drawings in English, and then in choppy Korean, conveying a stilted, unsure attitude to her art.
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I'm sure those photos were staged and stilted but in an era before social media gave us a little too much access to what the rich and famous think or look like at home, it felt like an unprecedented peek inside a celebrity's world.
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The president followed his initial tepid response on Saturday with a harsher but more stilted explicit condemnation of specific hate groups on Monday, but then backed down in a ranting impromptu press conference on Tuesday in which he again claimed "both sides" were to blame.
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Scene City Over the years, Julianne Moore has appeared in more than 60 movies, where some of her more memorable roles have included a despairing porn star, a pretentious artist, an articulate academic, a lightheaded lesbian, a boozy Briton and a stilted New England housewife.
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Taken together, their elevation reflected a new sense of urgency among House Democrats after midterm election victories ushered in a disproportionately young class of freshmen eager to shake up the stilted ways of Washington and infuse a different set of voices into their party leadership.
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The eerie tone of the performance is set by Brown, who recites a Southern Gothic-style monologue about a willful child buried alive (adapted from a Brothers Grimm tale.) Brown's costume (vinyl-covered white overalls, lace socks, and delicate shoes) suggests a stilted innocence.
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As players leapt in the air and rushed from the dugout late Wednesday night, reveling in their 8-0 win over Puerto Rico, shortstop Brandon Crawford and second baseman Ian Kinsler met at second base and engaged in a formal, stilted, job-well-done handshake.
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"In contrast to Merkel's visionary outward-looking speech that triggered warm applause, Mr. Pence delivered a stilted defense of Trump's achievements to a skeptical audience," said Amanda Sloat, a scholar with the Brookings Institution in Washington and a former official in the Obama administration.
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Britain's pound once again weakened after two days of gains, as Prime Minister Theresa May said further assurances on her Brexit deal were possible after European Union leaders told her they would not be renegotiating the agreement and scorned her stilted defense of Britain's departure.
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Who doesn't sometimes daydream of coming home from school on the bus, getting into the house and settling down on the sofa to drink Sunny D and watch Craig Charles sweat his way through some stilted dialogue with an extremely nervous nine-year-old?
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Photo: SonyAs adorable robots go, Aibo (and especially the new Aibo Chocolate Edition) don't disappoint, mimicking the stilted movements of a tiny puppy that hasn't quite mastered walking yet, and doling out plenty of artificial affection to owners they're actually able to recognize through onboard cameras.
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Chuck Grassley Then, this past week, when faced with questions, Kavanaugh said as little as possible beyond a rote recitation of Supreme Court case law when it came to his legal views and gave stilted answers when asked about responses he gave at previous confirmation hearings.
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Although the show creates a ruthless world -- the action is brutal and visceral, and the story advances quickly -- it's not inventive enough to overcome the stilted dialogue and stock characters, including an evil queen (Sylvia Hoeks) and her minions, whose military accessories include horses and dogs.
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"I'd actually posit that those were unhealthy in that there was no respect for the other side, there was no respect for the conversation as an entity, there was no respect for anything but advancing a particular, stilted incredibly prejudicial agenda in those cases," Reddit told Gizmodo.
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It's obvious that a good amount of money was put into the project — most notably that million-dollar prize — yet at the same time it feels cheaply produced and poorly edited, with clunky, distracting background music; stilted performances from the hosts; and awkward shots and edits.
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If you ever need to determine whether that stilted, personality-free individual you've seen in your neighborhood, your workplace, or serving as the Senior Advisor to the President of the United States is a real person or a just humanoid robot, offer them a free taco.
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It might sound stilted to have rigid roles like this, but that's kind of the point: By embodying these roles, you're hopefully able to get out of your own head and into a more neutral mental space where you can empathize with your partner and really communicate.
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A scene set in the offices of the colonial authorities in 1920 is stilted and anachronistic; a tantalizing early appearance of one Soft-Paw, a gang leader renowned for his silent footsteps, ends with him slinking away, carrying rucksacks full of guns, never to appear again.
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It was not to be—you couldn't, after all, really expect too much from a performance introduced by Jimmy Fallon yelling about Pepsi—and though Timberlake invoked Prince (projected on, uh, a sheet, rather than in hologram form, which Prince detested), the moment felt weird and stilted.
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They usually arrived in the predawn hours, before the creatures emerged from their slumber, and climbed into one of the observation towers they had constructed on the colonies: stilted plywood platforms 10 feet high, covered by tarps or burlap sacks with small openings for microphones and cameras.
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She gave birth to her first child via a C-section two weeks after her due date, and though she was able to deliver her middle child vaginally, both experiences were jump-started by pitocin, a synthesized hormone used to induce contractions, and subsequently stilted by a powerful epidural.
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While Louie tries for the same balance, and often fails with routine dives into the morbid and melodramatic, and Master of None makes the same attempt yet fails with stilted dialogue and comedic timing that rarely dips below the surface, Atlanta, at least in its first two episodes, succeeds.
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Diving into social media feels like a viable alternative to boredom and stilted small talk as an adult who could conceivably be going online to do something important (like checking work emails) but is actually just looking for a distraction (like fighting with a Pete Buttigieg supporter on Twitter).
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The deliberately stilted acting and the baroque artificiality of the settings — a potpourri of New Age, Victoriana, midcentury American Square and Renaissance Faire hippie — bespeak a high degree of self-consciousness, but it would be a mistake to view the movie simply as a spoof or a goof.
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On this occasion Ms Musgraves walks into her living room to find James Corden (one of the show's writers, Matt Whittaker, works with Mr Corden on his "Late Late Show"), who engages her in stilted banter about the snowy weather, leading—inevitably—into a rendition of "Let It Snow".
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This is not to say that Bryant doesn't really want to tell stories; he unmistakably comes alive when the topic of motivation is raised, and when he held forth on it at the Tribeca Film Festival in April his responses were stilted and a little manic but also clearly deeply felt.
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But unlike Judd's work in steel and concrete, where endurance is central to form, Burnham's buildings — elaborately engineered and carefully conceived in relationship to each other — are simultaneously substantial and ephemeral; with army-green canvas roofs tied by nylon ropes, it's obvious that these stilted structures are cast as provisional.
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And so you get verses like these (or his stilted feature on "The Motto"), where he is going for that simplicity (which, oddly enough, he has no problem achieving when the intent seems less tryhard) and instead just throws up a bunch of images that no one really wants to imagine.
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The first half of the 2016 baseball season is set to be memorialized in the traditional way at Tuesday night's All-Star game in San Diego, with droves of substitutions and stilted dugout interviews and, somehow, Julio Teheran pitching to Eduardo Nuñez at a crucial spot in the late innings.
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Here, the references to the wars become relevant to the story in ways that make sense — from the variably stilted, jarred, dazed cognitive states displayed by the film's protagonists and graphic effects alike, to the intuitable critique of the military-industrial complex, so interested in the successful creation of this monster.
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The anthemic "Memory Gospel" (originally released as a B-side on his 1999 masterpiece Play) lends dreamy texture to the garish brutality and frenetic acting in one of the film's climactic scenes, a montage of gun violence and stilted dancing; it underscores the film's dramatic tension between the otherworldly and the mundane.
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Newer iPhone design choices suggest Apple is moving toward limiting consumer agencyThe iPhone's immediate impact on the smartphone market surpassed any of its contemporaries in large part because it represented both a leap away from stilted mobile hardware and software and a move toward a more open and connected mobile communications standard.
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The deserted drumscape of "Climbing Up the Walls" sounded like it was informed by the stuttering samples of Portishead and the coda of "Exit Music (For a Film)" actually was, according to bassist Colin Greenwood, who said they wanted it to sound even more "mechanical" and "stilted" than the trip-hop act.
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As they drank Negronis, guests picked bouquets inside a hot pink stilted pavilion filled with alliums, thistles and lilies, wandered through a colonnade draped with swaths of Dedar fabric and bounced through an interactive step and repeat that evoked rolling turquoise hills — a fantastical landscape created by the Dutch design duo Studio Ossidiana.
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The setup — a superhuman minority with a royal family and a restless underclass — has echoes of another ABC fantasy, "Once Upon a Time," but it's presented in such a stilted, sluggish way that it mainly recalls costume epics like "Clash of the Titans," which at least had Ray Harryhausen's cool special effects.
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After a stilted and awkward meeting last month in Washington between Mr. Trump and Ms. Merkel, when there appeared to be little personal chemistry and the president did not publicly shake the chancellor's hand, Ms. Merkel is said to have approached Ms. Trump as way of cultivating an in with her father's administration.
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Its theatricality comes across as forced and curiously inert on screen, at close range to the actors, and its conversations about race and policing in particular feel stilted and contrived — like pontifications snatched from national conversations and simply repeated by the characters, rather than expressions of what they deeply feel and think.
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All the random attempts to be funny and entertaining outside the performances instead felt stilted and confused, with bits from talented comedians like Nicole Byer and Jay Pharoah awkwardly sandwiched in between announcements of which performers would be coming next, as the comedians vamped the best they could in the venue's concrete hallways.
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If Crimson can capture that successfully, there is a lot of potential for the company to transcend the university admissions use case and provide an effective platform to replace those slightly stilted, standardised careers quizzes that exist today to help wayward teenagers figure out what they might want to do, and how to get there.
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The day before his arrest, he gave stilted TV interviews outside his home pleading for the safe return of his family — his wife of nearly six years, 34-year-old Shanann Watts, and their girls, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste — who had been reported missing by a friend on Aug. 13.
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A night at Berghain in Berlin or The Bunker in New York certainly doesn't feel like some stilted throwback to those sweatily dancing the hours away, but chances are likely that a DJ could drop a twenty-year-old Robert Hood or Kenny Larkin track into a set without anyone checking their Apple Watch.
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" (We'd award him points for honesty, but his Porsches are worth more.) In a strange and somewhat stilted comment on the post, Mark Zuckerberg thanked Koum, writing that he was "grateful … for everything you've taught me, including about encryption and its ability to take power from centralized systems and put it back in people's hands.
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Rather than having the participants led by an expert or curriculum of some kind, he leaves the nonactors more or less to their own devices, to role-play, team-build, dance and otherwise generate intimacy in a process that resonates on screen as both authentic, in its loosely directed realness, and bizarrely stilted by ritual.
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There's the stilted, bulky dialogue, through which the characters deliver loads of exposition, recrimination, unhidden bias, and think-piece jargon without the slightest hint of subtlety or irony; there is little apparent effort on the part of the playwright to make them anything more than avatars for righteous, revanchist, clueless, and always predictable ideas.
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Especially at the beginning, there was a sense of the talented cast trying to do the piece "correctly" — an ever-so-slightly stilted quality, a degree of self-consciousness — but that eased as the evening went on and the calligraphic vocal lines began to course with more confidence and personality over the mellow orchestra.
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I still think playing this season entirely in "reality" is the best course of action for building the show's world, because I hate it when shows force other characters to speak in stilted fashion to hide the true circumstances of what's going on (as when, say, Darlene said Elliot was unavailable in last week's episode).
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The stilted dialogue when Corrine "just shows up" right before Nick was about to tuck himself in with a champagne nightcap (who does this?) makes it feel for a second like we actually are about to watch some porn, but instead we see Corrine and Nick go into his bedroom and close the door (this is network TV!).
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The day before his arrest, he gave stilted TV interviews outside his Frederick home pleading for the safe return of his family — his wife of nearly six years, 34-year-old Shan'ann Watts, and their girls, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste — who had been reported missing by a friend on Aug. 13.
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That's partly because the direction isn't assured enough to carry the movie's themes through its chosen format: Bo Burnham's use of the internet in Eighth Grade illustrates the cinematic potential of digital "found footage," but Chaganty struggles to pull it off, and there are plenty of moments when the film's technical elements feel awkward and stilted.
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For example, if you'd never heard of the Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard, and then someone was like, "Well, the guy just writes books about himself doing normal stuff, the literary devices he employs are kinda cliched, and his dialogue can be really stilted, but he's considered one of the world's greatest living writers!" you would probably be nonplussed.
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He is one of TV's archetypal father figures: the way he flashes mild disappointment when contestants miss easy questions; the way he pronounces French words with the savor of someone tasting fine wine; the way he chats with contestants, at scheduled intervals, like a father standing on the porch with a prom date — dutiful, genial, stilted.
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With emotionally stilted dialogue that's meant to convey late 19th century melodrama — and evoke the countless movies heroicizing white folks who attempt to save runaway slaves — a white man who is Quaker finds a black woman slave and, instead of turning her in, hides her, keeping her safe from prowling slave hunters, and then they sexually connect.
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Not because you'll wake up the next day to a series of notes in your phone that miss out the important letters in the titles of books you reckon you'll read one day, but because you can get at least two minutes of stilted banter about the person in question's taste in literature out of it.
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I don't care for 12 Songs much (my favourite of his is "My Life is Good" off Trouble in Paradise), but "Mama Told Me Not to Come", is a classic, and is one of the only tracks off that record with that stilted playing and unpredictable structure...that kind of New Orleans romp he'd go back to every now and then.
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" (As a reminder, Trump said the letters "LGBTQ" in such a stilted fashion it sounded like he was reading letters off an eye chart.) And on May 31, Trump even offered two tweets praising "LGBT pride month" and stated that he stands "in solidarity with the many LGBTQ people who live in dozens of countries worldwide: who are punished or even killed.
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With a lesser-known work like "The Pearl Fishers," generally deemed an appealing but flawed opera (patches of soaring music, a justly famous duet, colorful choral writing, but an uneven score with a stilted libretto), the challenge is different and more liberating: The production must make a case for the overlooked opera, must bring out its riches without refashioning its essence.
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While Christopher Columbus' series-launching films are the most accurate to Rowling's books, the obsessive devotion to the source material produces weaker films from a cinematic perspective then, say, Alfonso Cuarón's looser take on the third novel, which gave the young actors more freedom to express their personalities, and act like kids instead of the stiffer, stilted actors hitting their marks.
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Its pacing is leaden (it vastly overestimates the entertainment value of watching Schumer stumble over her words), its dialogue is stilted (when Schumer does get her words out, she often speaks in first-draft diatribes), its characters are underwritten, and it sometimes seems as though the film can't make up its mind about what we're supposed to be laughing at, or why.
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" But outside of these darkly animated interludes, Dameron's prose is hampered by stilted dialogue, left-field coarseness ("I deposited that image into the spank bank," he says of a young weight-lifting pair) and banal observations that strain toward philosophical heft: "Though we might try to forget the past, it does not forget us, and like the tide, it returns.
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When Return of the Jedi hit theatres in 1983, it too received similar lukewarm reviews, and today is derided as a lazy re-write of A New Hope that relied on the same plot device (the Death Star) to drive the action, suffered from the return of George Lucas' stilted dialogue, used Ewok teddy bears to shamelessly sell toys, and employed the tired "nature versus technology" moralizing.
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A strong and commanding voice in the support of queer and trans identities in the music and club space, Crampton aims to instill positivity and progression into her productions, which are an aural smorgasbord of astral dripped pads, stilted reggaeton-esque percussion, chaotically spiraling piano keys, and perfectly disorientating sound effects to create an out-of-this-world experience that is quite hard to compare with anything else out there.
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Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos honed his signature style in films like Dogtooth and The Lobster: His actors deliver stilted, formal lines with intentionally over-mannered delivery that belies their ludicrous situations, be it a family that's kept its adult children from ever interacting with the world, or the residents of a hotel where everyone must find a mate within a few weeks or be turned into an animal.
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Karl Lagerfeld's photo of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel donning Spectacles for their September 2016 reveal Karl Lagerfeld's photo of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel donning Spectacles for their September 13 reveal Here's a breakdown of the major flaws that emerged with Spectacles in the year since their debut, with a focus on the stilted launch strategy: Snap first announced Spectacles with some Karl Lagerfeld photos of Spiegel wearing them on September 24th 2016.
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As he poked his smiley little head out of his mother and mugged to the midwife, not even Robbie—Robert back then you'll remember—covered in mucus and blood and membrane and placenta but always ready for a smile and a wink at the nurses, could have predicted he'd grow up to release an electro record that found him rapping the following lines in an incredibly stilted semi-Mancunian-cum-cockney-cum-Jamaican accent without dying of shame: OK then back to baseheadsDance like you just won at the special OlympicsI got the rudebox off the back of a spaceshipSo sick I just had to take itThe R.U.D.E.B.O.XUp your jacksie, split your kecksSing a song to SemtexPocket full of Durex, body full of MandrexAre we gonna have sex?
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