Sentence examples for more stultifying effect from inspiring English sources

The movie repeats these feats again and again, each time to more stultifying effect.

It's the entire tradition of long, boring fight scenes in movies, on TV, everywhere, made more stultifying by recent years' onslaught of visual effects, able to conjure anything.

This will have a stultifying effect.

I agree with your observation about the stultifying effect of long-term supply contracts in the rest of the European Union.

Nothing more stultifying than an array of consumer choices paraded as a philosophy of life.

Major companies often have a stultifying effect on the agile startups that they buy, no matter how much they intend to remain hands-off.

By the 19th century, the impact of the received conventions of the day over acclaimed painters became more stultifying than ever.

The working methods of yMusic quietly repudiate one of the more stultifying aspects of classical tradition: the obsession with fidelity to the written score, in which the performer lives to serve the composer.

On the one hand, the argument goes, with "Cats" squatting at the Winter Garden, and the megamusicals that followed -- "Les Miserables," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Miss Saigon" -- proving equally immovable, the clogging of theater real estate had a stultifying effect on the development of new work; where would it be presented?

Critics applauded at the end of the first press screening – a rarity – while festival-going Torontonians have lapped up the crowd-pleasing delights of a British period drama which stirs the emotions to an almost ridiculous degree while avoiding the more stultifying pitfalls of the genre.

There is a strange deadness in the film, together with a callow self-importance and self-pity which become more stultifying with every minute that passes, factors which are actually made worse by the obvious competence of everyone concerned: so much technical élan is being expended on this narcissistic and flimsy stuff.