This self-perception stifles democracy and often results in people turning their blame against one another and ignoring the power structures at the root of the problem.
According to Periyar, a self-respecting rationalist would readily realise that caste system had been stifling self-respect and therefore he or she would strive to get rid of this menace.
What if the market was not an actor (as Sellers makes it) but a resource, an instrumentality, something created by human beings as a means to their ends?" Sellers summarized Howe's argument as "Market delivers eager self-improvers from stifling Jacksonian barbarism" as against his own "Go-getter minority compels everybody else to play its competitive game of speedup and stretch-out or be run over".
Is she crushing her daughter's spirit, stifling her self-expression?
It is a novel, however, and fiction, because it is so firmly anchored in the particular — this character, this story — has a way of stifling authorial self-regard.
But by filling our kids every waking minute, with sports or just plain companionship, we risk stifling their self-sufficiency, as well as their imaginations.
In a deeply divided nation where it has become normal to be asked about one's political loyalties, much of the stifling atmosphere seems self-imposed.
All over social media, people sighed frustratingly that political correctness had ushered in a return of a stifling Victorian-era self-policing, and worse, typically, in the hyperbolic atmosphere of the "war on terror", it exposed "the west to attack".
Lying is essentially stifling our true selves and real personalities, which makes us humans feel terrible and causes us some serious mental anguish.
Judith Shulevitz's cri de coeur in Sunday's New York Times against the "self-censorship" she believes is stifling intellectual debate in American universities due to the supposed heightened emotional fragility of today's students should appall anyone who cares about or believes in mental health.
