stilted manner
1stilt´ed|ness — stilt|ed «STIHL tihd», adjective. 1. stiffly dignified or formal: »stilted conversation. He has a stilted manner of speaking. There were letters of stilted penitence to his father, for some wrong doing (Elizabeth Gaskell). SYNONYM(S): pompous. 2 …
2stilt´ed|ly — stilt|ed «STIHL tihd», adjective. 1. stiffly dignified or formal: »stilted conversation. He has a stilted manner of speaking. There were letters of stilted penitence to his father, for some wrong doing (Elizabeth Gaskell). SYNONYM(S): pompous. 2 …
3stilt|ed — «STIHL tihd», adjective. 1. stiffly dignified or formal: »stilted conversation. He has a stilted manner of speaking. There were letters of stilted penitence to his father, for some wrong doing (Elizabeth Gaskell). SYNONYM(S): pompous. 2.… …
4American literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the English language in the United States. Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. For almost a century and a… …
5stiltedly — adverb in a stilted manner she answered him stiltedly • Derived from adjective: ↑stilted …
6Characters of the Mass Effect universe — This article describes notable characters who appear in the Mass Effect fictional universe. These characters are explored in the novels Mass Effect: Revelation, Mass Effect: Ascension, Mass Effect: Retribution, and Mass Effect: Deception; the… …
7Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 1980s — Since the beginning of Saturday Night Live, the show has been something of an anti television show, turning the medium on its head with endless fake commercials and parodies of TV shows themselves. The most common style of their recurring… …
8Syllabic verse — is a poetic form having a fixed number of syllables per line or stanza regardless of the number of stresses that are present. It is common in languages that are syllable timed such as Japanese or modern French or Finnish, as opposed to accentual… …
9Renoir, Jean — born Sept. 15, 1894, Paris, France died Feb. 12, 1979, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. French film director. The son of Pierre Auguste Renoir, he discovered a passion for the cinema while recovering from wounds suffered in World War I. He directed his… …
10Gothic Architecture — • History of the style Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Gothic Architecture Gothic Architecture † …
