Sentence examples for stuffy about from inspiring English sources

Mr Miller was never stuffy about answering such importunate questions.

For all its history, there is nothing stuffy about Lübeck.

Ah, don't be stuffy about it, Fred, please don't.

"Ken was just being stuffy about the whole thing.

It's also not being too stuffy about things.

He epitomised old values, country, family, faith, without being stuffy about it.

The staid stuff that he puts in the mouths of Polonius and Ulysses and all the other stuffy guys, about measure and temperance and degree and self-restraint and not following appetite to its surfeit — he really meant all that.

He had heard the whispering from the artists quartered in their quaint but stuffy bungalows about secret air-conditioners cooling the main house, but it was certainly not true in his room.

For the next few months, the trapped miners will spend much of their time in a hot, stuffy chamber about 33 feet by 20 feet, while a machine slowly digs an opening thousands of feet deep to rescue them and the nation continues to grapple with the fallout from the ordeal.

If the regional metaphors in this essay were too much, I can only apologize for being too thrilled with the art scene blossoming in my favorite city in the world to write a stuffy essay about the experience.

Huw does gentle chat about as easily as the Windsors do relaxed and casual, so while ITV was excitedly cooing over hats, he was being rather stuffy and awkward about what to expect later, and making ill-advised remarks about Kate and a "delighful view" as she got into the car.