A voiceover by Chris Makepeace takes us back to his character's adolescence, and gives away the movie's stilted tone.

"The great Jeddak designs to honor you individually with his royal observation," she announced in stilted tones.

They say that more sophisticated Soviet readers, accustomed to reading between the lines, can judge from the stilted tone of the reports that they do not fully represent reality.

That stilted tone of hers made it clear she didn't expect me to be much help.

Peregrine switched the wireless off, imitating the stilted tones of whoever had been reading the news.

Gussie was being purposely warm and welcoming, but Pansy could hear the stilted tone in her voice.

"Of course, you're welcome to verify all of that for yourselves if you're not content to take our word for it, Captain Archer," Stiles said in stilted tones.

In stilted, formal tones, he offered them "a lesson," something to consider if they were tempted to defy him.

Yet the animation is "conventional and stiff," she said, and the screenplay, adapted by Isaac Asimov, "has taken a comparably stilted tone."

D.D. mimicked his stilted professional tone back to him.