Sentence examples for slightly stifling effect from inspiring English sources

The terrain is so familiar that it has a slightly stifling effect, even in Mr. Plympton's demented hands.

Technology may at some point overcome the stifling effect of aging.

After his death this influence was sometimes held to have had a stifling effect.

Such restrictions have had a stifling effect on the cultural scene, artists say.

Chris Berg, a research fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs think-tank, warned it could have "a stifling effect on political debate".

It's difficult to exaggerate the stifling effect that competitive idea exchange can have on some of these people.

Yet the idolatry has had a stifling effect on subsequent generations of composers, who must compete on a playing field that was designed to prolong Beethoven's glory.

This is much greater than the impact of a currency crisis (see left-hand chart).What accounts for this stifling effect?

It is this aspect of Murder that most recalls The Killing, which dwelt so painfully on the stifling effect of grief on the dead girl's family.

At the same time, the patent office was granting thousands of software patents, many so broad as to have a stifling effect on innovation.

Wild's book grew out of a course he teaches at the Berklee College of Music and aims to remedy what he calls the "stifling effect of a search for 'meaning' in works of art". His prescription: Be instinctive.