Sentence examples for on stifled from inspiring English sources

Every step depends on stifled emotions and closely guarded secrets, resulting in a buildup of operatic passion that endows everyday gestures and inflections with grandeur and nobility.

Mr. Pitts's attack on the Independent Payment Advisory Board, on the other hand, contains an apocalyptic vision of stifled innovation and compromised patient care wrought by "insidious" board decisions.

Sascha's take on anti-Microsoft propaganda evoked a full five minutes of stifled giggles throughout CrunchGear HQ. – People with Windows Mobile phones don't like Apple.

On many evenings the actors not only feel the emotional impact of the play, they hear it, too, in the chorus of stifled sobs from reverent theatergoers, who seem to hang on every word.

Paris takes on the character of Sylvie's rueful meditations and unwelcome revelations, and the countryside, seen through Walser's spattered windshield, silently resounds with the horror of stifled history.

When "Disobedience" concentrates on Henry's stifled fury and on his efforts to make sense of love and loyalty in the face of his mother's rebel streak, this keenly wrought but unfocused book comes closest to striking a raw nerve.

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Releasing their early singles on their own Stifled Aardvark label (it seemed funny at the time), the five-piece quickly developed a Windsor-based scene around the local college, the Revolution record shop and venues like the Arts Centre and the sadly missed Old Trout (best known for hosting pre-Reading festival shows by the likes of Pixies).

Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.

We can only imagine the stifled giggles brought on by this pic taken at an authorized T-Mobile reseller in Newport Beach, CA. This isn't nearly as funny though considering it isn't at an actual T-Mobile store but if this isn't a kick in the nuts I don't know what is.

He called for lowering the corporate tax rate to 25% from 35% and cutting back on regulations he said stifled innovation.