Sentence examples for stifled to from inspiring English sources

YAFRAN, Libya — In a country where creativity was stifled to ensure the pre-eminence of one man, art can be the best revenge.

Bronstein, working with a scant budget (that he met by working as a projectionist), filmed a young man named Keith Sontag who is stifled to the point of furious agitation (played by the director's cousin, Dore Mann) as he endures a mounting range of humiliations in his romantic life, in his relations with an abusive roommate, and in his cultlike job as a door-to-door salesman of discount coupons.

"The most important thing right now is to create a space for free expression - a freedom of expression that was stifled to the point that two or three years ago we could not even imagine that a revolution would even happen".

I wanted to interact with the world and not be stifled to my 2x2 chair.

It's a desperately sad tale, exquisitely performed by its three leads – Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo may have been Oscar-nominated for the wry, lizardy mania and weary decency they bring to Du Pont and the elder Schultz respectively, but Channing Tatum deserved to join them: his lunkish charisma has never been used (and perversely stifled) to more touching effect.

The old settled social structures were stifling to many creative and dynamic people (and in those days discrimination stifled people even more).

Still, the current climate of religiosity can be stifling to nonbelievers, and it helps now and then to cry foul.

If you design a room that is too representational or too colorful, it becomes stifling to the imagination".

The lesson: Structure can be stifling to a merry band of rebels conspiring on the next new thing.

In brief, he considered the standardized curricula useless, deadening to the spirit and stifling to the intellect.

The system under which the junior clerks are trained too often tends rather to stifle than to encourage these qualities.