Sentence examples for stuffy to from inspiring English sources

Changing Lincoln's image from stuffy to stylish is a higher hurdle to clear.

"Hillary sounds pragmatic, which can come across as stuffy to young people.

Russell's charismatic friend Washington, for example, has "the ability to convince, if only to the point that you felt it would be very stuffy to believe completely in your own position, or for that matter in anything.

For those new to Japan, this kind of place can be intimidating; there are dozens of rules about decent conduct when it comes to visiting onsens and, with so much history within its walls, you might think Araya Totoan would be too stuffy to enjoy.

There was in the person and there is in the work such a mixture of genius and modesty, ambition and gentle irony, innovation and deliberate unoriginality, that it sounds a little off, maybe a little stuffy, to speak of John Ashbery's greatness.

A CLERK at a gift shop in Bushmills couldn't help remarking that Bob and I were sensible Americans — because we were in Northern Ireland instead of Iraq — but everywhere we went we were greeted warmly; even at Royal County Down, the most socially exclusive club in Northern Ireland and the equivalent, say, of Muirfield in Scotland, which is known for being a little stuffy to visitors.

During a 2005 broadcast of Fresh Air, National Public Radio's Ken Tucker said that Triangle comes "perilously close to stuffy art rock".

Bring snacks, some stuffies to the party!

So I read books that were interesting enough to captivate or stuffy enough to annoy, and I went to study humanities at Thames Polytechnic.

It's great fun to cause stuffy engineers to turn into silly schoolboys singing rounds while using finger puppets.

JB: Well, I know I've been true to myself, I am stuffy enough to think I've been right most of the time.