Word: stiltedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As one person remarked, she seemed to be playing a typewriter, not a piano. Her tone never went beyond initial attack, either to poetry or bravado; it thus made the lonely melody of the second movement stilted and the jazzy exuberance of the third tame. The orchestra (particularly the winds...
So much for the New English Bible's poetry. Instances of "jargon, and all that is either stilted or slipshod" are even more numerous. Matthew's account of Pilate's altercation with the Jews is given overtones of "Mrs. Murphy's Chowder": "Why, what harm has he done?" Pilate asked...
In doing our work, we have constantly striven to . . . render the Greek, as we understood it, into the . . . natural vocabulary, constructions, and rhythms of contemporary speech. We have sought to avoid archalsms, jargon, and all that is either stilted or slipshod.
The Easterns. Much of the Madison Avenue manner rubbed off on the Japanese admen. To Yoshida, the "client is god." and his account executives spare no effort to prove it. Each summer, when Japanese traditionally send each other greetings, teams of Dentsu men climb to the top of sacred Mount...
It is less a single country than an archipelago of small, lush river valleys, cut off from each other by sharp mountains and limestone plateaus where roam the elephant, tiger and gaur. In winter, the hills of Laos are alight with opium poppies, and in summer the floods brought by...