Sentence examples for as a stifled from inspiring English sources

Kumin, who died last year, began her career as a stifled housewife selling light verse to magazines, grew into a voice of confession and feminist dissent, and, finally, became Poet Laureate and an eminent New England nature writer.

It has become standard at this point to say that Robson is "good for" Murray, a scenario that paints Murray as a seductively stifled all-court Mr Darcy, raw with unrelieved tension.

Capable, knowledgeable, responsible to a fault, Joy (whose last name is never heard in the film) gets cast by default as her family's Cinderella, a stifled servant to the needs of others.

Then he scored a goal that was both unique and absurd; so much so that the voice of Sky commentator Peter Brackley cracked with a stifled chuckle as he said: "Vialli – what a goal!" Most unique goals are intrinsically improvised, but this was particularly brilliant because the circumstances to which Vialli reacted were so unusual.

In video of the incident, Trump is seen shaking his arms uncontrollably while making a stifled, mumbling sound with his voice as he recites a paraphrased line from Kovaleski's story.

Iraq under Mr. Hussein had a stifled quality.

"It is not hysterics," replied Madge, in a stifled voice.

A minute later Alex hears a stifled cry.

A stifled chuckle escaped from the woman with the Evian.

It has changed me from an active, creative person to a stifled, angry pessimist,' she says.

MENTION the ageing of the Japanese population, and you will provoke a stifled yawn.