Sentence examples for the stifled from inspiring English sources

And who, the stifled jealousy of their husbands notwithstanding, could begrudge them that?

Brookner is "the unrivaled mistress of the stifled life," Claire Messud wrote here last year.

(The great metaphor of "Avatar" is the quasi-artistic liberation of the stifled physical life).

The novel's third starring role, and its most memorable, belongs to Henry IX, the stifled monarch of this crackpot kingdom.

Sydney Corcoran, a teenager, remembered the way the smoke was so thick "you just hear the stifled screams of people you can't see".

All best-of lists are haunted by the stifled voices of great women filmmakers, including Elaine May, Julie Dash, and Claudia Weill.

The pathos of his comedic impulse is undiminished; the energy is stifled; the will has perhaps been defeated, I hope only temporarily.

She surveys Gone Girl, Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band, "Golden Girls" and Lena Dunham's "Girls" to arrive at the conclusion that until we reshape the stuffy, stifled connotation of "woman," "girl" is liberating, and "girlhood as a state of mind" is worth embracing.

But when elections were held three years later, the party stifled media coverage.Now, despite a sweeping crackdown on dissent this year involving the arrest of dozens of activists, the party is finding it harder to impose silence.

In 2017, the most important event in the world of movies was the revelation, in the Times and The New Yorker, of sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, and the resulting liberation of the long-stifled voices of the women and men who had been abused by him or other powerful men in the movie business, and, for that matter, in other arts and industries, too.

I've been privy, in the past, to the  subtle nudges, the rolled eyes, and the barely-stifled sighs of men who think flying the feminism flag is tantamount to announcing oneself as a rabid hater of all things male.