Sentence examples for it stuffy from inspiring English sources

"You have to offer a sophisticated menu without making it stuffy or too expensive, especially now," Mr. Assaf said.

Research presented at a conference in Church House last week shows that the Church of England has been losing believers far more quickly than God has; that if older people are hostile to it, this is because they find it stuffy and out of touch, while younger opponents think it actively bigoted against women and gay people; and most people (58%) think nothing of it at all.

Others find it stuffy and pretentious.

It's stuffy, it's boring and it doesn't stand for what it's actually about: a deep emotional experience that will stick in your memory much longer than any movie or any party.

"Everything about fine dining, as I understood it, was stuffy, it was rigid, and it was not fun at all," Guidara told me.

When he brought the little plastic barrel out (which originally had olives inside) Twin gave it a once over before giving his appraisal, "It looks good, it looks stuffy".

I know it's stuffy in here, but it's better than actively being rained on.

"It was more stuffy — it was like wrestling with a sponge.

It is not stuffy; it is much more like a rock show and a jazz show than a classical show.

It's hot, stuffy, it makes little noises around your ears, the very ears upon which I'm dependent to hear cars sneaking up behind me.

Last year, the British critic Philip Clark had a provocative response to the perennial question of how to save classical music from its so-called image problem the perception that it is stuffy, élitist, and irrelevant.