Sentence examples for stifling to from inspiring English sources

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

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

If you're unhappy at Yale — which, one student tells Deresiewicz, is "stifling to the parts of yourself that you'd call a soul" — then why are you unhappy?

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

Consumer advocates and champions of access to creative products see many copyright protections as too lengthy, unfair to the public and ultimately stifling to creativity.

One could imagine a more drawn-out examination of whether monogamy is indeed the best foundation for long-term relationships, given that both men and women (studies now show) sometimes find the strictures stifling to sexual happiness.

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

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

The letter says a perception that the WRU has sought to stifle plans to set up a PRGB is incorrect.

An innate conservatism, a stifling reluctance to try something different.

Amy is madly contemptuous of the apparently stifling conventionalism to which Kim has yielded.