Sentence examples for stifled feelings from inspiring English sources

Larkin deploys it to evoke a Britain which was already disappearing: an emotionally illiterate country of stifled feelings, rigid rules and families unable to speak freely.

The tendons of his jaw swell with the strain of stifled feelings; his brows, usually tasked with double takes and farcical arching, knit with a terrible weight of guilt.

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".

The two pal up, play at shoplifting and pay a visit to Ray's brother's kooky Wiccan family, and before you can say Lost in Translation, stifled feelings of romantic yearning begin to stir between these two people at very different points in their lives.

Suppression of feelings is almost always followed by that same stifled feeling exploding out of nowhere in a way that is much more difficult to control.

Its genesis began during a time when she said she was "kind of feeling stifled creatively, and I thought I needed to welcome back some of my creative outlets -- my old friends".

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.

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

He says some students do feel stifled and restricted by the classroom.

The Latinos say they feel steamrolled and under threat, while their tenants, the Chinese, say they feel stifled and unappreciated.

What if it means we feel stifled?