In one work, which, since it is popular, I will not name, there is a stiffness and stiltedness in the dialogue and descriptions, perfectedly ridiculous.
"Pelham, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton Last Updated: March 16, 2009
It furnishes a course for recitation that obviates the necessity for a stage, avoids the stiltedness of declamation, yet supplies an adequate method of studying the lost art of recitation,-the art that made the Greek what he was.
"Browning and the Dramatic Monologue"
S. S. Curry
Inwardly, he cursed the stiltedness he felt creeping into his voice, and his irrational resentment of Holt's continued smug grin.
"Human Error"
Raymond F. Jones