Sentence examples for emotionally stifled from inspiring English sources

Her work is smart, sometimes funny but emotionally stifled and calculated to the point of lifelessness.

She cringed in reaction against her puritanical family environment; when she pulled at the collar of her dress, the gesture suggested that she felt emotionally stifled.

Everyone who has been pushed into the grief box understands it's confining limitations, but all of our collective voices together can't seem to change the intense indignation of a society too emotionally stifled to speak the truth.

Through a minimalist black-and-white style that give her stoic illustrations the photographic quality of an old family album, Nina recounts her family history in two parts; the early memories of life with her paranoid and emotionally stifled mother, then delving back in time to reveal the path that led to her father's extremism after his exile to Canada.

Larkin deploys it to evoke a Britain which was already disappearing: an emotionally illiterate country of stifled feelings, rigid rules and families unable to speak freely.

Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.

Bisset's laser-sharp, emotionally exact performance as Simone is the perfect and necessary foil to Depardieu's stifled howl.

He remained stifled, shy.

Emotionally inarticulate.

Iraq under Mr. Hussein had a stifled quality.

The feeling of being stifled and anxious.