Sentence examples for stifling place from inspiring English sources

He told me that he and Surnow, in addition to sharing an admiration for Reagan, found "L.A. a stultifying, stifling place because everyone thinks alike".

But in 1986 Hana was on her way back to a very different world – Czechoslovakia was a stifling place in the mid-80s.

While DL guys regard the closet as something alien (a sad, stifling place where fearful people hide), the closet can be temporary (many closeted men plan to someday "come out").

The fact that he was able to use everything that makes the Midwest a kind of stifling place and channeled that back into his art was incredibly inspiring to me growing up.

But maybe what they really need is to look back at their own histories, and more widely around them to the institutions and rituals that stifle their place in the home and their development from son to father.

After Hamas won a Palestinian election in 2006, America and Israel, with broad Western endorsement, sought to stifle the place, to display the benefits that would accrue to the West Bankers by co-operating with Israel.

It is when sources of power are abused, that bullying in the workplace takes place, stifling empowerment and innovation in thinking.

It's no accident that the rational dress movement of the 1890s found common cause with women embracing the freedom machine as an escape from the stifling societal restrictions placed on women of the time.

It was not the stifling, squalid place of its reputation; it was dense and subtle.

"The place was stifling him, he said: the social obsequiousness, the medieval religiosity, the historical mendacities".

Sir Percy made me most welcome and said a house had been allotted to me... a tiny, stifling box of a place in a dirty little bazaar.