The principle of academic freedom at our universities is under attack by those seeking to shield Israel from criticism by silencing dissent, shutting down discussion and imposing a stifling atmosphere of intimidation at the University of California, in particular.
They want to escape doting, caviling parents, the injunctions of Mosaic law and a stifling "atmosphere where sedulous study was valued above action".
Human rights campaigners say this election – in a country which has never held a vote deemed free and fair by the OSCE – is taking place in a stifling atmosphere: no opposition parties exist, the media is muzzled and thousands of dissenters are in prison, where torture is rife, because of their political or religious beliefs.
Among his other notable films, from a different source, but with an air of Simenon's stifling atmosphere about them, were Le Cage (The Trap, 1975), a thriller with Ventura and Ingrid Thulin as a vengeful couple, and Une Étrange Affaire (A Strange Affair, 1981), with Piccoli and Nathalie Baye.
Unlike many other centres of old cities, this one has not been ruined by mass conversion to offices and the stifling atmosphere of a nine-to-five work environment.
Set in the stifling atmosphere of a 1950s Surrey village, Lewis Aldridge is the outcast of her debut's title, a damaged 19-year-old returning from prison and struggling to deal with his mother's drowning, his father's judgements, and his own deepening alcoholism and self-injury.
But, after just a year, he rebelled against the stifling atmosphere of the college, running away to his grandfather's plantation.
Even the misstep of the nightmare sequence created by John Ferren, which sees Scottie's disembodied face floating in a psychedelic void, cannot undermine the stifling atmosphere of romantic intensity epitomised in the ripe colours and Bernard Herrmann's grand, encircling score.
In some ways, he is the most interesting of all, because he has achieved a substantial degree of independence within the sometimes stifling atmosphere of Chinese music.
The introduction, where we see Lexie kicking her heels in the stifling atmosphere of her Devonshire family before a too-chance encounter with the glamorous, corduroy-suited Innes, feels a little stagey; for all the brilliance of O'Farrell's depictions of new motherhood, the historical plot outshines and unbalances the contemporary one.
In one massive synchronized movement, the throng drew on their e-cigarettes and released a gigantic, breathy cloud of vapor into the already stifling atmosphere.
