Sentence examples for more stifled from inspiring English sources

There's an aspect of people being even more stifled back then because there was no freedom.

Debate feels more stifled than a decade ago.The increasing centralisation of power is also disturbing.

The voice became more and more stifled as the lid of the box was lowered.

The brouhaha in question, unfortunately, is likely to inspire more stifled yawns than furrowed brows or raised consciousnesses.

So isn't he worried that his freedom will be even more stifled in the confinement of a label like Syco?

It was suffocating and with every surah I memorized, I felt more stifled.

But whether earnestly addressing the camera or engineering a phone call between Phyllis and her lover of four decades earlier, Ms. Kleine is unable to communicate a point, about either midcentury sexual mores or stifled suburban wives.

One notes a more or less stifled urge to express something about the American experience.

More likely to inspire stifled yawns than furrowed brows (1 35).

Elsewhere, he tackles more predictable topics, from stifled lives to the dumbing down of the arts.

It's a desperately sad tale, exquisitely performed by its three leads – Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo may have been Oscar-nominated for the wry, lizardy mania and weary decency they bring to Du Pont and the elder Schultz respectively, but Channing Tatum deserved to join them: his lunkish charisma has never been used (and perversely stifled) to more touching effect.