Sentence examples similar to it felt stifling from inspiring English sources

"The other reason was that I felt stifled as an intellectual".

All this mystery that surrounds me over why I left England is actually very simple: I felt stifled.

But I felt stifled by the weight of expectation I'd brought on myself: by the trips to Home Depot and earnest requests from family and friends to know when the wedding would be.

I became acutely aware of myself as a political entity, but while the discourse felt important, necessary even, it also felt stifling.

I had found work and a life that I was passionate about and motivated by, and being home - as comfortable as it was (or maybe because it was so comfortable?) - felt stifling.

Instead, as the hours crept by and it became increasingly clear that Hillary Clinton would not be our president, the air inside the Javits Center felt stifling.

At times the seated arrangement felt stifling and the audience (with the exception of one woman's "bravos!") too starchy for such arousing and at times chaotic music.

And many agreed the stigma of a "felon" label felt stifling.

My job satisfaction increased dramatically with that assertion of my agency and my refusal to indulge the dichotomy, something that feels safe for other sex workers but felt stifling to me.

It was heavily, and humiliatingly, dependent on Germany, which in turn felt stifled by its late arrival in the race for overseas territories.Russia had the greatest woes.

Babel never fled Russia yet felt stifled by its authoritarianism.