Jouvet's productions of Molière were his most important contribution; he freed the plays from the weight of tradition that was stifling them.
Many also expect a radical rethinking of our political system, so that institutions empower the people instead of stifling them with bureaucracy.
His father, also Johnny, a real estate developer in town, said he and his wife had tried to nurture Mike and his two younger sisters without stifling them.
Our aim was to create a near-contemporary setting that would open up opportunities for play among the characters without stifling them.
The winningly feisty Aussie teenager first introduced in Justine Larbalestier's Magic or Madness (2005) is doomed to die young, either from using her inherently debilitating magical abilities or, paradoxically, from their disuse since stifling them engenders madness.
The Westminster of the mid-1800s was a marvel of its day, employing cutting-edge technology — such as air-conditioning, which never quite worked, freezing everyone in winter, stifling them in summer.
