Ato Essandoh

If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.

American Actor

Mark Duplass

If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time to rehearse them correctly or if the perceived dynamic between the actors is different from what the writer imagined, and you're not allowed to stray from that, you're going to have a stilted scene.

American Director

Joanna Coles

People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar.

American Editor

Joachim Frank

I love the English language, the colors of it, the many, many nuances, the different influences. I find German stilted, in a way, by comparison.

American Scientist

Mary Quant

I always designed clothes from a very young age because I didn't like the way they were. They were paralyzing; they were stilted.

English Designer

Leon Askin

A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.

Austrian Actor

Nigel Farage

Being over-rehearsed is very bad. It is stilted. The public see that.

British Politician

Carlos Alazraqui

Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

Aimee Mullins

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

American Athlete

Walter Savage Landor

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

English Poet

Often used for entertainment, walking on stilts requires balance and is popular in performances.

Performance Tool

Stilts raise people or objects to reach high places in construction or for a better view.

Elevation Purpose

In some cultures, stilts are integral in traditional dances, celebrations, and ceremonies.

Cultural Festivities

The term 'stilt' refers to specific birds found in wetlands recognizable by their long legs.

Bird Watching

Sighting stilts can indicate the health of their wetland habitat, as they require clean water.

Environmental Indicator

Using 'stilt' when birding shows knowledge of avian species and their characteristics.

Birding Vocabulary

 where we made a piece about a tall giraffe. It was just called "Tall Horse," which was a life-sized giraffe. And here again, you see the same structure. The bulkheads have now turned into hoops of cane, but it's ultimately the same structure. It's got two people inside it on stilts, which give them the height,

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 So to stay with their communities, many have moved a few meters inland and built more resilient homes on higher ground or elevated stilts. Others have tried to buy land on newly emerging islands in the delta, while some have sent family members to find work in nearby cities.

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 That's a very important story. Why? Because as people stop moving, they start to impact the area they're in heavily. Now that they're in stilt villages, they start to overfish their reefs. They start to overuse their resources. How do they do that? They use net fishing.

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 leopard stilted and do anything which just goes to show that the presence of tasks the presence of some sort of device on an animal is even a good-enough deterrent and also obviously sighs couldn't have to turn to to protect something from a predator

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 and the viscous streams of blood soaking the sheets are highly naturalistic. The blood spraying from the severed artery in Caravaggio’s looks stilted and artificial by comparison. And yet this isn't even her most celebrated painting of the scene.

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 the new skyscraper had to be built on columns supporting it, like stilts. Using stilts on a building’s corners wasn’t unheard of, but because the church stood at the corner of the block, these stilts had to be placed at the center of each side.

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 like stilts which is actually a crucial adaptation for soft swampy soil narupa says the rain forest is full of little innovations like this sometimes they're wily sometimes they're beautiful but each one shows just how clever plant life can be

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 And I said, "I know. Isn't it fun?" I mean, it's a little bit like wearing stilts on stilts, but I have an entirely new relationship to door jams that I never expected I would ever have. And I was having fun with it. And she looked at me,

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 Once they’ve settled down, mangroves deploy tall, skinny stilt roots, crutch-like prop roots or wavy buttress roots, to support themselves in their unsteady terrain. These newly established mangroves have to contend with two additional

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 because of the permafrost you can't really build anything on the ground here so what you'll see is that all the houses are on stilts longer bein is home to three kindergartens and the world's northernmost school

Stilt

A long, skinny pole used to elevate something or someone above the ground.

Often appears as...

A type of bird with long legs and a long neck that wades in water.

Often appears as...

Performance Tool

Elevation Purpose

Cultural Festivities

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