Sentence examples for This stuffy from inspiring English sources

It's just this 'dream,' this stuffy little group of snooty, cruel boys.

Like much of this stuffy work there wasn't enough air to make them float.

"Cora" captures the strain in this stuffy household, dominated by a woman accustomed to having her orders obeyed without question.

In this stuffy little all-too-human universe, words did not stand for given things; on the contrary, things stood for given words— words in the Bible or in one of the treatises of Aristotle.

Most of these cutouts appeared traditional at first glance, but Moss had tweaked this stuffy staple of Victorian portraiture by choosing approximately 300 pop-culture icons as his subjects, like Bill Cosby, the Simpsons and Solid Snake, the stealthy hero of the Metal Gear video games.

In its first issue, the New-York Daily Times gave this stuffy introduction to a letter about "a lamentable riot" in Lancaster, Pa.: "The common-sense view of the subject which characterizes this production will commend it to the candid reader".

(Manohla Dargis) 'THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY' (PG, 120 minutes) The best efforts of the blue-ribbon cast cannot save this hopelessly stuffy, muddled screen adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winovel novel set in Peru in the early 18th century.

But I'd be lying if I pretended that being on this hot, stuffy train, and having every day dissected by my radiotherapy appointment, in any way resembles fun.

"So I came in and met this very stuffy old gentleman and I said I wanted to write a serialised story about a new girl in town, not telling him who the new girl in town really was... .. Maupin recalls with a wicked laugh.

This was stuffy, safe Christianity, and I suspected not one of these women had been washed in the blood of the lamb as I had.

There is nothing dreary, no stuffy, this-is-a-shrine-to-art feeling.