Then for a while-fiveminutes or more-therefollowed a strained and stilted conversation.

Take the opportunity to shake players' hands and exchange a few lines of stilted conversation.

Once more, Tsubodai did not add anything to the stilted conversation and the khan's temper came to the surface.

We don't, in any case, want to have to go to the door repeatedly and make stilted conversation with health visitors.

After the first few passages in polite though stilted conversation, his keen, grey eyes resumed their thoughtful-itwas even a calculating look.

After a dinner eaten to the accompaniment of painful, stilted conversation he had offered to clear out and leave her to her resentment.

The days in the Palace seemed endless, filled with stilted conversation and people who saw me only as my father's daughter, nothing more.

It starts with stilted conversation, ends with a spark, but is followed by a catastrophic tryst in which there is nothing but emotional degradation.

In the short term, that might mean more stilted conversations in your inbox.

It's about stilted conversations, lost opportunities and possibilities drifting away like the smoke from Leung's countless cigarettes.