Sentence examples for stifling feeling from inspiring English sources

The phrase "stifling feeling" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a feeling of being emotionally or physically constricted or restricted. For example, "I felt a stifling feeling of dread when I realized I had forgotten to finish my project."

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They have not been afflicted with the stifling feeling of being watched and listened to in hotels, offices, parks and cars.

I had the stifling feeling that they knew I belonged to them but knew that I did not know it yet, that I remained unready, and that they were simply waiting, patiently, and with assurance, for me to discover the truth for myself.

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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.

Whoever it is, learn how to open up to your feelings and overcome them instead of stifling your feelings and never truly dealing with them.

He says stifling your feelings makes you "physiologically uptight, and you are much less flexible both in your muscles and your thinking".

PLUSES -- Mr. LaPaglia's portrait of a macho man risking his health by stifling his feelings until they nearly explode is a wrenching portrayal of what used to be called a Type A personality.

"I didn't know what I would hear and I knew I was going to have to stifle my feelings.

He cannot stifle his feelings.

In his advice to his daughter not to stifle her feelings for all other beings, he also echoes his wife's views on sensibility.

Though she is not yet divorced she can not stifle her feelings for him.

Guilt, anger, or some other manipulative emotion is used to ignore or stifle the feelings of others.

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