Like any Martian visitor he landed in San Francisco, intelligent, stiltedly educated, highly moral.
This may be what David Kepesh in Roth's The Professor of Desire had in mind when he spoke stiltedly of "the destructive powerof those who see a way out of the shell of .
Considering the terrible known consequences of such an act, the affair with the girl lacks compulsion; and Pieter's relations with his wife, if clearly blueprinted, are stiltedly .