Sentence examples for instead of stuffy from inspiring English sources

Instead of stuffy antiques, the decor of this spacious four-bedroom Inman Park loft goes almost overboard with contemporary accents: lime green walls, bold blue stripes, geometric patterns everywhere – though the palette gets toned down in the comfortable guestrooms.

Studio guests such as John Tusa responded sagely to an exhaustingly swift succession of queries on everything from programme starting times (7pm, please) to whether concerts should really take place in swimming pools and railway stations (seriously) instead of stuffy old concert halls.

If your nose is runny instead of stuffy, an antihistamine may offer you greater relief while doing more to minimize your cold symptoms.

"Instead of a stuffy doctor giving you jargon and terminology that's complicated, the information is coming from a peer," he said.

The paintings of all three are juxtaposed in this show, so that one sees the obvious continuity through the eyes of the dealer: Monet and Pissarro were doing the same thing as Daubigny except that their canvases were fulfilled on the spot, completed in the great outdoors instead of the stuffy confines of the studio.

He stays at his office until about 4 30 p.m., relishing that everyone calls him Abe, like a pal, instead of the stuffier Mr. Schrader.

It's not every day you meet a freedom fighter in the garden at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills, politely telling an assistant he needs more water, and to take his meetings outdoors instead of in that stuffy air-conditioned suite, but here he is, Che Guevara.

Adjust your temperature with clean sheets, warm blankets, and pillows, instead of wrestling with a stuffy fleece set of pajamas.

"If so, it's almost a tacit acceptance of the status quo—i.e., the Franklin will continue in its stuffy patriarchal way, so instead of winning the Franklin, women will be able to win the Australian Orange Prize".

"If so, it's almost a tacit acceptance of the status quo — i.e., the Franklin will continue in its stuffy patriarchal way, so instead of winning the Franklin, women will be able to win the Australian Orange Prize".

It's the opposite of stuffy.