How To Use Stultify In A Sentence
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My generation was raised on a diet of stultifyingly tedious, but worthy accounts of embryology, typically very badly printed on what appeared to be rice paper.
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This is impressive in its way, but also self-serving, exhibitionistic, and ultimately stultifying.
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But it was simultaneously stultifying, keeping me from developing the very objectives I sought.
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If not, then some variant of Orwell's nightmare will descend upon the world to enslave and stultify life for the upcoming centuries.
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Ultimately, the moralism of Veber's fable becomes slightly cloying, as the film suggests that a simple change in perspective from time to time is enough to make that stultifying job at the plant more bearable.
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These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.
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Against the Portuguese side, however, this seemed the product of facing a side as proficient in stultifying opponents as Celtic have proved in the past.
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The second case took place in the 1950s, by which time the reformism of the 1930s had sunk into a stultifying coalition: francophone religious and political elites allied with anglophone elites in business.
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Such tests tend to stultify the most creative teachers even as they, at least in theory, help the worst students.
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She can feel the stultifying terror caught from Mama's hand, the abject stillness of Papa.
SEA MUSIC
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The stultifying heat of July had burned itself out and left a more temperate August.
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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But equally, immersion can be stultifying: shut yourself off from a range of experiences (artistic and lived), and your critical reading even of the things you're shut in with suffer.
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Their wish to expand the audience probably emanates from their belief that poetry should be enjoyed and practised by everyone; that poetry needs to be liberated from stultifying analysis.
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Its stultifying and baleful influence is transmitted by the clammy grip of its three main tentacles: the universities; the ‘experts’, and, above all, the media.
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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than a life lived inside the confines of a theory.
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They found it intellectually stultifying and conformist, enslaved to propriety and, well, bloody boring.
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It's always worth another look at Bush's stultifyingly inept reply where, ignorant of his own devastating college aid cuts, he fumfered, muttered, went completely silent staring at the floor, and in the end "misremembered" the truth - he had just days before passed the biggest cut ever in student loans, cutting students off and increasing loan rates. click here
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These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.
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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than a life lived inside the confines of a theory.
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The full time housewife's life was stultifying.
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The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion.
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
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So he said to them, “I desire of you that ye dispute with this damsel on the things of her faith, and stultify her argument in all she advanceth;” and they answered, saying, “We hear and we obey Allah and thee, O Commander of the Faithful.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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You have to stifle a yawn as you inhale its stultifying atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Morality, one finds, isn't oppressive and stultifying; it's relaxing and liberating.
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Garish handles, knobs and bases cast from Victorian lamps and furniture decorate her works, parodying the stultifying ornateness that marked the era.
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Although it was getting dark the stultifying heat of earlier still remained.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.
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Bridges go two ways, though, and what is about to arrive going the other way is a stultifying 600-year empire.
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Like the first breath of spring after a long and stultifying winter, these first stirrings are signs of hope.
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You have to stifle a yawn as you inhale its stultifying atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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They found it intellectually stultifying and conformist, enslaved to propriety and, well, bloody boring.
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`Perhaps you'd find the city less stultifying ," he challenged.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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The idea of an existential allegory featuring a pair of characters trapped in a sand-pit for two hours sounds stultifying at best, but this is one resurrection that can be welcomed.
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The death sentence the late Philip Johnson pronounced on skyscrapers 15 years ago was directed at the then-prevailing North American skyscraper form, namely the plethora of minimalist boxes of stultifying banality.
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These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.
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Bridges go two ways, though, and what is about to arrive going the other way is a stultifying 600-year empire.
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One lesson from the early 1970s is that trying to centralize or organize all the community energies into one big movement is stultifying for everyone concerned.
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nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself
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Whatever endangers the opportunity for inquiry and innovation threatens to make education dull and stultifying.
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It's raining, finally, after the second-dryest August on record and two or three days of absolutely stultifying humidity.
Funk's got a mind of its own.
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A better formula for stultifying research is beyond contemplation.
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It can be stultifying to watch a movie that looks and sounds too much like there should be a rolled-up Playbill in your fist.
HBO's 'Sunset Limited' review: All aboard the theological choo-choo
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A stultifying inversion has snuffed out some of the most ambitious air-quality bills in the Legislature this year.
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The government's withholding of information, for example about the arms deal and self-interested involvement in it, and the requirement of political correctness in public debate, however, stultify democracy.
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The stultifying heat of July had burned itself out and left a more temperate August.
FAMILY BLESSINGS
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But even more, Michael Bryson has written a necessary book, one that attempts to overthrow the rather stultifying critical orthodoxy that presently governs Milton studies.
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Another major factor in the decline of the railroads had been the stultifying hand of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Tracks Across America
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But since existing political institutions are frustrating and stultifying, few people are willing to participate.
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Without the inclusion of this track, the disc feels nearly stultifying, but with it, altogether pleasant.
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These countries are trying to shake off the stultifying effects of several decades of state control.
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But Mr. Jiao is not alone in expressing frustration that, even after a long-awaited transition to a new generation of leaders some 18 months ago, China's political scene remains stultifying.
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Scotland's major task in the coming decades will be to outgrow the stultifying mentality of negativism and inferiority that has dogged the nation since the second world war.
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A rigid routine can be stultifying and boring.
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The stultifying ugliness of a northern British industrial city is somehow transformed into a kind of wild beauty by the way the ratio opens up the image.
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There is no doubt that the exterior material is beautiful, but it is also a bit stultifying in its quantity.
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For many of us, such a subdued, small town, near communitarian environment would feel repressive, stultifying.
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A rigid routine can be stultifying and boring.
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Giles is a philandering upper-class oik, relentlessly snotty and stultifyingly snobbish.
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Where both forms of expression are used together, as in the present case, they may indeed tend to be mutually stultifying.
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The point, however inchoate, inarticulate, and immature, was to register dissent with the status quo and to assert some measure of individuality in a stultifying, conformist atmosphere.
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Attempts to filmically infuse this material with a Tolkien-esque sweep and drive will fail, as the thudding Prince Caspian — the second adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series — failed: the intimacy evaporated, the pageantry became stultifying, the audience went zzzz.
Sex and the Single Wizard
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A stultifying inversion has snuffed out some of the most ambitious air-quality bills in the Legislature this year.
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There is an appalling and stultifying conformism in Australian politico-intellectual life, such that publications which do not conform are condemned and vilified.
