Sentence examples for stifled expression from inspiring English sources
The much-enlarged Japanese character for "anger," cut from white fabric and stitched to a black field by Gardar Eide Einarsson of Norway, seems a similarly stifled expression of repressed feeling.
The emergence of the chief happiness officer (CHO), once met with stifled sniggers and confused expressions, reflects the increasing importance placed on cultivating a contented workforce to attract and retain the most sparkling talent.
Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.
The book's editor, the folklorist Richard M. Dorson, explained that the story — which involves a young woman being given to an old man in an arranged marriage — had been told by women "as a healthy expression of their stifled feelings in a male-dominated world".
By Wendell Steavenson July 18 , 2011Before the revolution, political expression in Egypt was stifled… Amid the cacophony of protest and debate since the revolution — which I wrote about for the magazine this week — there has been one method of expression that has regularly stopped me in the middle of Cairo traffic so that I can get out my iPhone camera: graffiti.
They are the expression of the long-stifled resentment felt by nearly half of the electorate who did not vote for the ruling Justice and Development (AK) party in the June 2011 parliamentary elections.
Our pop-up parties have gained a reputation - there we are less stifled as performers, and by allowing greater expression the audience can see our pride and excitement.
He thought this was great fun, raised his baton again and continued to conduct with exaggerated gestures until we were done, finishing with as tragic an expression as he could manage through his stifled laughter.
There's an aspect of people being even more stifled back then because there was no freedom.
This video shows that it makes no difference whatsoever how much or how little dancing Portman actually did — because it reveals, in its brief duration, the extraordinary spectrum of expressions that she brings to the performance (a limited range of precise expressions, each of which suggests a different one of the vast stifled cries that are those of the character).
He remained stifled, shy.
