Sentence examples for as a stifling from inspiring English sources

As a painter, Mr. Kanovitz was a student of Franz Kline, and his early work, in the 1950s, was in the Abstract Expressionist mode, the nongeometric, emotion-infused style favored by Kline, Jackson Pollock and others, which he came to see as a stifling trend.

The votes followed four hours of mostly partisan testimony from experts and voters, split evenly between those who wanted the Legislature to appoint the electors and those who denounced the undertaking as a stifling of the people's voice.

The Mighty Ducks must figure out a way to beat Brodeur, who, as usual, benefited from a stifling defensive effort in front of him.

I don't doubt that Southend is as stifling as a summertime souk at the best of times, but honestly: how hot can it really get in Essex?

Largentière is dank under grey skies and glorious through long springs and autumns; it endures life-threatening downpours in the flood season, and in August is as stifling as a explored.

Largentière is dank under grey skies and glorious through long springs and autumns; it endures life-threatening downpours in the flood season, and in August is as stifling as a Kasbah.

Instead, on-screen moms tend to be shoved into the strictures of stereotypes, as stifling as a pair of Spanx.

But since Dickens presents the society of his day as a confused, stifling muddle, within which there are many layers of connective subplot, it is to Heskins's credit that she maintains a clear narrative structure within an inevitably bitty script and an over-busy production.