Sentence examples for stifled emotion from inspiring English sources

The role is in the same range as the brutal but sensitive Jack Bauer that Mr. Sutherland played for eight seasons in "24": grief, righteous anger and, above all, stifled emotion.

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.

Each group had a sense of uncertainty, mixed emotions, and stifled aspirations that lent a questioning counterpoint to the general chorus of affirmation in American life.

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

Deftly juggling characters and plotlines, eliciting fierce emotions with coolly controlled performances, Perry evokes simmering frustrations and stifled furies, galling resentments and bitter self-recognitions.

He remained stifled, shy.

The feeling of being stifled and anxious.

"It's really stifled cardiac arrest research.

The People, muffled, stifled, muzzled, unloved.

Both films confront the burden of guilt as an existential cataclysm; "Manchester" adds to it a sense of irreparable personal loss that invests it with a stifled howl of melodramatic fury, a daily tragedy in which the stuff of daily working life is grotesquely, comically inadequate to the absolute emotions tearing it apart.

Dr. Hagen had recently had to confront stifled expectations.