stultifying's Usage Examples:

It had a stultifying effet on the individual audiences who tended to get, well, restless.

Galbraith traces the growth of a stultifying contentment in the Western industrial world, represented by the G7 group.

intelligence-insulting, ugly, half-assed, audio compromise lorded over by the stultifying FCC.

went to work in an office but found the white-collar environment too stultifying.

housewife and mother who turns to drugs and alcohol to deal with the stultifying conformity of her suburban life.

ink painters who are working creatively with what in lesser hands is a stultifying tradition.

status of subspecies to a seedless cultivar is a good example of the stultifying effect formal nomenclature has had on crop taxonomy.

age, as they try to create lives for themselves amidst the violent and stultifying culture of their home – a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples.

We seek a fruitful diversity of political function, not a stultifying uniformity.

constrained from making more films) constructs a fitting metaphor for the stultifying pressures faced by many in today's Iran.

Concepts of decorum, increasingly sensed as inhibitive and stultifying, were aggressively attacked and deconstructed by writers of the Modernist.

less provocative and compelling, the staleness of the drama could be stultifying.

Louis Botto and Robert Viagas called the play "a stultifying evening of vapidity.

) the stultifying power of nostalgia", and compared Dixie Mae to Oedipa Maas; he also noted.

Editor Jonathan Lethem described the upcoming publications as "absolutely stultifying, brilliant, repetitive, and contradictory.

yoke of ethics and practises the art and science of medicine beyond the stultifying opposition of paternalism and autonomy.

the country as an alternative, albeit still relatively tame, to the stultifying TVRI.

concerns the intricate relationships of three sisters marooned in the stultifying atmosphere of a provincial Russian garrison town at the turn of the twentieth.

exciting but dirty urbanism, as well as the quaint but dark and sometimes stultifying small town.

Synonyms:

ridicule; jest at; rib; poke fun; guy; blackguard; roast; laugh at; make fun;

Antonyms:

woman; raw; strengthen;