It was a warm-hearted and affectionate response to her somewhat stilted little appeal.

This was said in a tragic, somewhat stilted, but impressive manner.

The dialogue, in truth, is somewhat stilted.

He did not again lapse into sentiment, and he made himself fairly agreeable, in his somewhat stilted fashion.

He stopped before the two men, exchanged a somewhat stilted greeting with Philip Downing, and turned to Lutchester.

He is not only ungrammatical, which, in a familiar letter, is a matter of very small consequence, but somewhat stilted.

In the face of these enthusiastic, if somewhat stilted, periods the majority of his colleagues remained cold, and no appropriation was voted.

He looked around in some irritation, and with a sudden shock found himself confronted with the embodied proof of his somewhat stilted fancies.

She had guessed as much from the somewhat stilted phraseology of his letter, and was prepared to reassure him by her own outspoken gratitude.