| 单词 | stultify |
| 例句 | The years had passed with a stultifying sameness. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “What are these? Visual aids for civics or some other equally stultifying high school subject?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My father, who won’t let me go to school with a contusion the size of a baseball, has grounded me and banned me from working to stultify my life. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her face—as beautiful as a blooming flower to him now—was distorted with a new kind of torture, the tissues serenely swollen, her half-closed eyes misty and unseeing with the stultifying languor of desire. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The pervasive emptiness and stultifying summer heat were only minor deterrents when compared with the more elemental consideration that all the banking and commercial institutions were based elsewhere, chiefly in Philadelphia and New York. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I worked in a Wall Street mailroom and finally found a job in the post office from which I was fired because I could no longer stand the stultifying work. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Okay—here's me using stultify in a sentence. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s about trying to weary and stultify the American public into not caring about what’s happening. Perspective | Senate press restrictions have an ugly goal: Putting distance between the public and Trump’s impeachment trial 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z Kelly has infiltrated the often stultified debates about art, feminism, civil rights, and anti-war protest with installations that give narrative voice to those whom such subjects most affect. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-19T00:05:56Z The literature of the period in particular bristles with the energy of young men in revolt against the expectations of their parents and the stultifying conventions of postwar society. William Goldman’s Journey From Page to Screen 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z All these lessons leave me stultified; The hours in the day just drag along — I think they’ve multiplied! Style Invitational Week 1382: For us, it’s still Post Time — it’s our annual foal name contest 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z These are among the few “facts” that emerge from their stultifying exchanges, although even these I wouldn’t swear to. Review: In ‘Savannah Bay,’ a Family Tragedy, Hazily Recalled 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z The accompanying Vanity Fair interview is a classic of its form, where the reader is required to wade through some agonisingly stultifying details as if it’s some kind of vision quest. Meghan Markle is the perfect fit for our new touchy-feely royal family 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z To be alive and online in our time is to feel at once incensed and stultified by the onrush of information, helpless against the rising tide of bad news and worse opinions. The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z A number of dresses, with firm bodices and matronly pleats, seem designed to evoke a stultifying existence. Fashion Review: Milan Goes in All Directions 2010-02-27T01:25:00Z Watching “Marco Polo,” Netflix’s extravagant but stultifying period drama about the legendary 13th-century traveler, is about as exciting as discovering a new Pier 1 Imports in the strip mall. Netflix’s ‘Marco Polo’ is so plodding that it’s practically binge-proof 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Beguiling and human describe the rest of “The Other Side,” which is often as visually expressive and narratively engrossing as the faux art film is visually florid yet stultifying. Review: ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Is Orson Welles’s Haunted Hall of Mirrors 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Back home, in a stultifying small town filled with combustible hate in the early 1960s, it all derailed. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But such distinctions — and even the appreciation of particular performances or feats of filmmaking — distract attention from the oppressive, stultifying weight of the system as a whole. A Summer Without Superheroes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Marie finds the accommodations primitive, the food repulsive, the domestic and prayerful duties stultifying. Review | In Lauren Groff’s hands, the tale of a medieval nunnery is must-read fiction 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z By the 19th century, the impact of the received conventions of the day over acclaimed painters became more stultifying than ever. Drawing Outside the Lines of the Times 2010-03-26T13:30:00Z But after a while Mr. Yeston’s tuneful feast begins to satiate and eventually stultify, and by the evening’s end it’s as if you’d eaten a whole buffet of pastry. | 'Death Takes a Holiday': Set Aside That Scythe, and Let?s Put on a Show 2011-07-22T02:01:27Z Was she the savior of the royal family, dragging a stultified institution, and a nation along with it, into the modern age with her humanity and common touch? ‘The Crown’ Has Had Its Scandals, but There’s Nothing Like Diana 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In November 1974 he returned to Ghana to work as a civil servant, but faced with "a debilitating combination of stultifying corruption and bureaucratic inefficiency" he resigned. Interventions: : A Life in War and Peace by Kofi Annan – review 2012-11-15T08:00:04Z This “Jena Set” undoubtedly saw themselves as magnificent rebels — gloriously free spirits bent on centering the self, in all of its sublime subjectivity, and throwing off the shackles of a stultifying, mechanistic order. These Romantics Celebrated the Self, to a Fault 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Balaban has that look of a banker who has commuted for the last time from Grand Central Station and now just wants to curl up in the suburbs for the rest of his stultifying days. 'Delicate Balance' teeters slightly but always fascinates 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Critical reaction has been mixed, with some calling it a masterly depiction of American greed culture while others have found its full-on depiction of wild parties and excess stultifying. Europe's bankers, investors flock to "The Wolf of Wall Street" 2014-01-09T20:19:30Z The days are 23 hours of stultifying boredom — all so you can have one hour onstage, one hour of visceral release that makes it worthwhile. The Rock ’n’ Roll Casualty Who Became a War Hero 2013-07-02T09:01:01Z It might even seem to some innocent souls as though all you need to do to acquire a high-level job is to learn its stultifying jargon. 10 of the worst examples of management-speak 2013-04-25T13:01:55Z Breaking out of that stultifying “shoe box” — Mr. Audi’s British-accented English is rich in idiosyncratic expressions — has long been a driving force for him. A Legend of the International Culture Scene Arrives in New York 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Corporate money has stultified fashion, pushing extravagance and disregarding ethics. | Critic?s Notebook: Critic?s Notebook: The Endless Runway - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-07T20:07:07Z Reynolds is a well-coiffed man-child stuck in a privileged, yet stultifying, routine. Why Phantom Thread should win the 2018 best picture Oscar 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z “Get Back” is interesting, irritating, sweet, stultifying, illuminating, punishing, satisfying, totally life-sucking, ultimately unnecessary and still pretty cool. Perspective | The Beatles are overrated. That’s our fault, not theirs. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z And one of the themes that runs through so much of his work is the stultifying horror of being trapped in the wrong life. Ricky Gervais 2010-07-17T23:08:00Z Her unusually sophisticated upbringing did nothing to prepare her for the stultifying demands of traditional motherhood. Review | Decades after his mother’s disappearance, a man searches the past for clues 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z For Agnès, who feels stultified by her husband, the Boy is not just a fresh presence but a magical artist. Review: In ‘Written on Skin,’ George Benjamin Creates an Unusual Love Triangle 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Christgau’s sex life is laid out in splendiferous if stultifying detail. Review: Robert Christgau Reflects on His Career as a Rock Critic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Politics stultifies, he thinks, when people stop dreaming up alternative ways of life and putting them to small-scale test. Short-lived, much loved 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In a thought-provoking essay, Roxane Gay cuts through stereotypes of feminism to own the “woman I would like to become;” in another piece, Ashley Hope Pérez dismantles the stultifying “nice girl” image. What does feminism mean now? Wise words from Mindy Kaling, Roxane Gay and others. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Do they represent the stultifying weight of tradition in presenting the “Ring”? The dark side of German nationalism? Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z But in an era of stultifying TV competence, it is something better than that: A wild, eye-popping big swing. ‘Raised by Wolves’ Is TV’s Wildest Hallucination 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music. Gunther Schuller: Conducting? He wrote the book 2010-08-12T22:30:00Z Surrealism was a profoundly anticolonial movement — and long after it had stultified in metropolitan France, its oppositional languages found their highest expression in the Caribbean. Getting a Grip on Unreality 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z And he says the public does, too: “You only get to know what they’re comfortable telling you about it. It’s stultifying.” Access denied: Reporters say federal officials, data increasingly off limits 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Undo the stultifying hierarchy of genres that routinely excludes comedy, horror, action and art. The Oscars Are a Mess. Let’s Make Them Messier. 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The sheer amount of loss can be downright stultifying at times. Badfinger's Pete Ham: "Misunderstood" 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z It's absolutely stultifying, it's brilliant, it's repetitive, it's contradictory. Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published 2010-04-30T11:49:00Z That’s as stultifying and frustrating as it sounds, even if it’s justified as “heritage” or “DNA.” J. Lo Wins Milan. Fashion Comes Second. 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z They speak, in a strange blank verse, of the flesh and blood they don’t actually have, the “lively excretions of a pair of corpses in stultified congress.” Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Lapp, actually, succeeds better than her castmates at breaking through the production’s stultifying constraints. Review: ‘Pushkin’ Squanders a Russian Poet’s Real-Life Drama 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Some may see the festival’s continuance as a Wagner-only enterprise as stultifying. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z Faced with a potentially stultifying subject, Mr. McKay offers an unlikely comic stroll through financial malfeasance. In ‘The Big Short,’ Adam McKay Uses Absurdity as His Guide 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z See the opening chase scene of Bay’s “6 Underground,” currently on Netflix, for a sense of what can be done with an emotionally stultified and dramatically trivial script. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Until the 1970s, Victorian art in general was regarded by sophisticates as stale, morally stultifying, formulaic kitsch. Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Koolhaas rejects the idea that Paris’s status as a living museum stultifies innovation. A Newcomer in the Paris Art Scene Jostles for Position 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Plenty shows Morahan's character aiding the French Resistance during the second world war, and then becoming stranded in the stultifying realities of peacetime. Hattie Morahan: unhealthy obsessions 2011-02-01T22:00:03Z The stultifying repetitions of the typical primer had been replaced with joyously musical ones. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z An interlude satirizing the stultifying fatuousness of the royal mission is followed by one that fawningly celebrates the magnificence of Diana deigning to speak to Welsh well-wishers. Review | In time for Thanksgiving, Broadway serves up a turkey: ‘Diana’ the musical 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The trouble with the sex in most movies isn’t a matter of prudery but of a stultifying failure of erotic imagination—and of dramatic imagination. The Accurate Erotics of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z We are stuck in a collegiate version of Ionesco, and it is stultifying. Women (and Men, Too) Pushed to the Edge at New Play Festival 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z The movie is a wildly campy, action-packed end to what has been a stultifying though undeniably beloved series; I have resisted each installment but had a shrieking good time at this one. It Was the Best of the Worst of Times: Breaking Dawn-Part 2 2012-11-15T21:09:35Z That’s the effect — both stultifying and cloying — of the musical “A Second Chance,” which opened at the Public Theater on Sunday night. Theater Review: In ‘A Second Chance,’ Singing New York Lovers 2014-03-31T02:00:01Z She is stifled and stultified at every turn, but Ms. Pugh’s alert, intelligent performance signals that rebellion is imminent. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Frequently, he’d wipe his face with a towel stuffed in the back pocket of his shorts: the heat was stultifying, far worse than the balmy night outside. Music Review: How to Dress Well at Glasslands: Shadowy Tribute 2010-08-15T22:16:00Z The film's final, epic, fire-powered showdown is either satisfying or stultifying. In the joyfully violent "Nobody," Bob Odenkirk channels his inner John Wick 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Now, that can stultify a pope, in which neutrality becomes an end in itself. Pope Francis takes down the right: “I don’t think the bishops are going to come flocking around (Santorum) any more” 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z Mary explains how a child would experience such life lessons as confusing, terrifying and stultifying. All in the Family Dynamics: Donald Trump’s Niece on the President’s Clan 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Yet van Hove undermined it with a stultifying black-and-white production that had less to do with Molière than with his own directorial tics. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Leningrad in the nineteen-seventies was a closed, stultifying world all to itself, a microcosm of the Soviet Union: a universe of muted grays and beige, where nothing much seemed to ever change. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The society he is about to depart from, represented by his father and Master Boyle, and led by Senator Doogan and the Canon, is a place of stultifying boredom and deep monotony. Brian Friel: trapped in silence 2012-08-10T21:55:09Z Life on the islands in the Indian Ocean can be stultifying. A darker shade of blue 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z But this line belies the stultifying normalcy of the show. The CW's new Superman series takes on corporate America, which is as unexciting as that sounds 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s absolutely stultifying, it’s brilliant, it’s repetitive, it’s contradictory. Philip K. Dick?s ?Exegesis? to Be Published 2010-04-29T21:27:00Z One problem with this love is that it’s been difficult for filmmakers to translate it to the American screen, which has long been locked in the grip of a stultifying, Eros-killing Puritanism. Movie Review: ‘Endless Love,’ About a Ferocious Attachment 2014-02-13T23:33:44Z Others are stultifying in their literalness — simple digital translations of existing symbols. Look Who’s Smiley Now: MoMA Acquires Original Emoji 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Nothing more stultifying than an array of consumer choices paraded as a philosophy of life. Why I've joined Damien Hirst's bad taste party 2010-09-28T14:07:00Z The awfulness of Verbinski’s is that he has something to say, but it’s of a stultifying banality, and he says it through a cinematic megaphone with a crude and tasteless rhetorical insistence. The Tasteless Intricacies of “A Cure for Wellness” 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z They were about young women who wished to flee their stultifying families and small towns, and they were frank about sexual longing. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z Her life is airless, packed with stultifying tasks: “Japanese motherhood and its attendant housewifery is a cult,” says Mizuki. In Tokyo, a Trapped Wife Seeks Excitement 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z One of the neighbours summed the situation up with breathtaking, stultifying exactitude: "She should be stopping behaviour like this happening rather than committing antisocial crimes herself." Christmas cards allow us to say much less to a greater number of people 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z For the girl to leave her musical wonderland, whatever its perils, and return to the status quo, minus the urge to escape its stultifying restrictions, would almost be a lobotomy of the soul. Oz Revisited – Part 5: What’s the Matter With Kansas? 2013-09-20T20:09:43Z It can't match the original but it's better than the film with the charisma void that is Bridget Fonda and the stultifying Canadian TV series. Nikita is back: long live Nikita! 2010-10-12T06:00:00Z And in some respects, they're not entirely wrong: there is plenty of mindless out there because there's plenty of TV in general, be it stultifying or mediocre or brilliant. "Devs" is Alex Garland's aesthetically mesmerizing and engrossing modern horror story 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Let’s face it: Ethics chatter is stultifying in the face of cerebellum-devouring insects. In TV’s ‘BrainDead,’ bugs eat the brains of D.C. politicians. (It’s a metaphor.) 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Nicholas Collon conducted both with stultifying attention to detail and little grasp of a bigger picture. BBCSSO/Nicholas Collon – review 2012-05-27T11:47:53Z The traffic, stultifying at the best of times, ground to a standstill during the worst of the downpours. Art Basel Miami Beach, Usually Sun-Soaked, Is Just Soaked This Year 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The budding diva finds it stultifying to ride the commuter train from Long Island and wants an apartment in Manhattan. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1 Finale: As Confused as Ever 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z But the fact that so many singers of her stature hew to the standard repertory suggests how stultified the world of opera has become since the days when Puccini’s operas took the world by storm. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z He and his family live in a society that is simultaneously in the grip of lawless violence and stultifying bureaucracy. ‘Heli’ Paints a Harrowing Picture of Mexico 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And though they are separated by seven decades, these dramas make it clear that the class system was alive, well and stultifying throughout the 20th century in Great Britain. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Trapped 2013-07-01T15:07:20Z Indie rock needs more musicians like Mac DeMarco, a talented singer and songwriter who bucks the genre’s stultifying tendency toward seriousness. Your week in Seattle music: Joan Baez, Flying Lotus and more 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z The main problem with the Grid, other than the dodgy opening hours of the exit portal Sam must reach in order to escape, is that it's kind of a stultifying place. Tron Review: Prepare for Deresolution 2010-12-16T23:00:00Z Although eliciting boredom may be the point — look, bonking can be as stultifying as working for the I.R.S.! — it’s not the strongest sell. A Lesbian Who’s Not a Lesbian Walks Into a Bar, and ... 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z “In the standard history,” Boyle writes, “the shattering started with the idealism of a new generation,” which rejected the stultifying compromises required by the “relentlessly moderate consensus” of the postwar era. Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z It also romanticised the idea of total alienation, the lone individual at war with the stultifying complacency of bourgeois society. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z Slowly, Carol is noticing the bars of her own prison, the stultifying stasis of her life and the emotional desert of her marriage. Review: On Parole and in Love in ‘Outside In’ 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z We felt we could topple stultified traditions and unjust power hierarchies, and imbue them with a more democratic "new". Talkin' 'bout my generation 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z It’s the entire tradition of long, boring fight scenes in movies, on TV, everywhere, made more stultifying by recent years’ onslaught of visual effects, able to conjure anything. An Open Letter to the White Walker Army 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Everyone in this movie is decent, which is beautiful in its way but also stultifying. ‘Fatherhood’ Review: He Lost His Wife. Go Easy on Him. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Ravel’s piano recording of his lovely “Pavane for a Dead Princess” may be the squarest and most stultifying on disc. 2010-02-06T03:18:00Z Searching, dissatisfied women have traditionally made fascinating heroines because they’ve challenged stultifying cultural scripts. A Novel of Domesticity and Its Discontents, London-Style 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z I realise, on one of these stultifying days, that it is the experience of the Souffrantes that most perfectly defines Haiti six months on. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z “Aleko,” adapted from a Pushkin poem, focuses on a caravan of Gypsies who have been joined by the title character, a jaded older man determined to escape the stultifying conventions of urban life. Review: Signs of Rebirth at New York City Opera 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The book described the stultifying conformity of life in Park Forest, Ill., a newly built suburb south of Chicago. The Forces That Are Killing the American Dream 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z “The idea of writing the same movie or play or using the same tropes over and over again would be stultifying to me.” John Logan Comes to TV With Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ 2014-05-09T21:52:11Z And design culture will stultify unless it reflects society as a whole. Design: Design Gets More Diverse 2011-03-20T22:30:06Z Many at The Post had become frustrated with what they viewed as a stultified business culture over which Mr. Ryan presided, and had relayed these concerns to Ms. Buzbee. A Decade Ago, Jeff Bezos Bought a Newspaper. Now He’s Paying Attention to It Again. 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Many early reviews have not been kind, citing everything from the interface, which is mobile only, to the stultifying omnipresence of influencers and celebrities. Opinion: How I looked past Twitter and learned to like social media again 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Bureaucracy, entrenched monopolies and money-losing government-owned companies have stultified Tunisia’s economy, economists say, and it can ill afford to lose the foreign currency brought in by tuna. In Tuna-Obsessed Tunisia, a Favorite Food Becomes a Lot Less Affordable 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Rather than stay in a stultifying marriage with her workaholic husband, Ted, Joanna abandons him and their young son, Billy. Opinion: How on Earth could Donald Trump consider separating families again? 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z Sure, we have the same stultifying homogeneity of other major cities. Pack your weekend bags, we’re going on staycation to Panorama City! 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z But the U.S. invasion, followed by a long, stultifying occupation, gave rise to more insurgency, including the Islamic State that terrorized people throughout the region and beyond, especially in Iraq. Two decades after start of Iraq conflict, Congress poised to repeal war authorization 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z That was this Oscars in a nutshell: surprising warmth and sincere, unpolished emotions that blossomed in a stultifying format. Perspective | Maybe the Oscars are better when they don’t try so hard 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z But their circular conversations about whether to put on a show or fall in love are stultifying. ‘Magic Mike’s Last Dance’ review: Trilogy’s conclusion misses a step 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z And what about his role in last year’s period drama “My Policeman” as a gay British cop in the 1950s prevented from living his truth by a stultifying and bigoted world? Is Celebrity ‘Queer Baiting’ Really Such a Crime? 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The local concoctions are challenging India’s conservative attitude toward alcohol, along with the country’s often stultifying bureaucracy, while prompting weightier questions: Can national pride be drawn from a bottle? The Gin Boom Trying to Change India, One Distillery at a Time 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z As Xi tightened his grip on power and his focus remained on stamping out the virus at any cost, the leadership did not broadcast any blueprint for how China would move beyond the stultifying restrictions. China lacked a 'zero COVID' exit plan. Its people are paying the price. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z If President Biden decides to seek the Democratic nomination, as now seems likely, credible primary challengers could enliven an otherwise stultifying process, making it robust instead of a bust. Biden wants to block a primary challenge from the left: That's not democracy 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z But the look-at-me tricks and recurring motifs can’t make up for a narrative that, once it comes into focus, is akin to listening to someone repeat their dreams in stultifying detail. Review | ‘Bardo’: Impeccably staged and shot psychobabble 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Many providers are suffering what she calls “death by a thousand cuts”—the constant, stultifying knowledge that they have to give people subpar care or none at all. Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Public schools have paused in-person learning, businesses are struggling to operate and one hospital saw its air conditioning shut down in the stultifying Southern heat. Opinion | Jackson’s water crisis is a warning for other cities 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In 1985, he was chosen to lead a country mired in socialism and stultifying ideology. Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union, dies at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z A 20th-century paradox: If the 1917 revolution had not infected Russia with communism, there would have been no Cold War; but communism’s stultifying irrationalities determined the war’s fortunate outcome. Opinion | China’s decline may be looming. Here’s how the U.S. can win, if it so chooses. 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z He said commentary on a Labour leader's uptake of policy ideas can be "a really stultifying process in British politics". Labour defends Starmer response to cost of living crisis 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z He’s from Baltimore and is used to the heat, the sticky, stultifying humidity. Daily heat record broken in Seattle as residents swelter 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z By then Mr. Brook, who took delight in “shaking up terrible, stultifying old conventions,” as he put it, had become a thoroughgoing iconoclast. Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z I found it to be a turgid, stultifying film about a selfish, irresponsible woman incapable of relating to anyone. Feedback: Why Damon Albarn is wrong about Taylor Swift 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Electric dominance has been replaced by stultifying mediocrity. The Seattle Seahawks’ Boom Is Busted 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z After last week’s snoozy win over the Eagles — arguably the dullest nail-biter of the season — the Giants topped themselves with an even more stultifying game against the Dolphins on the road, losing, 20-9. The Jets and Giants Played. They Did Not Win. 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The details of the procedural battle that Jayapal is fighting are stultifying to describe, but the stakes are existential for the social safety net and the environment, not to mention American democracy. Opinion | Pramila Jayapal Won’t Let the Biden Presidency Fail 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z If faculty-led tenure culture bears some of the blame for the stultified atmosphere on many campuses, administrators should admit their responsibility, too. Opinion | The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z So in the mornings you could go up one spot, avoiding the horrid stultifying nature of local news, to J.P. The decline of American civilization: There’s more bad TV than ever; it’s available everywhere; and it’s making us fat, lazy, selfish and stupid 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z It’s tempting, then, to attribute the stultifying homogeneity of Kidman’s more recent TV roles to her sudden timidity regarding her collaborators. Perspective | Nicole Kidman is one of our most unpredictable film actors. So why aren’t her TV roles more interesting? 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Such is the stultifying effect of the medical-industrial complex, which has aligned incentives with fame and fortune based on the pursuit of single-mechanism drugs rather than the clear-eyed scrutiny demanded by the scientific method. Alzheimer's Inc: When a Hypothesis Becomes Too Big to Fail 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z In other words, the opposite of Tokyo’s stultifying summers. When it comes to Olympic sports climbing, hands are the ultimate 'problem' solvers 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z When I moved to Montana in 2017, I felt the toll of wildfire season — the acrid, choking campfire smell, the stultifying beige filter that drains color from the land and steals your breath. Opinion | It’s not the heat. It’s the existential dread. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z It could also be a stultifying goalless bore, but where’s the benefit in negativity? PSG v Manchester City: Champions League semi-final, first leg – live! 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z The move will allow him to escape the stultifying summer heat of South Florida. Trump planning move from Florida to New Jersey for several months 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The individual talent of the entrepreneur or businessman, against the leveling impulses of egalitarianism and the stultifying power of monopoly. Opinion | The Two Crises of Conservatism 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z But that snuffs out economic growth — not a tenable proposition in Argentina, where the central bank already maintains interest rates at the stultifying level of 38 percent. ‘We Were Left With Nothing’: Argentina’s Misery Deepens in the Pandemic 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z They live in an intellectual vacuum, a world of stultifying minutiae. Welcome to the age of social murder: The elites will try to mollify us, but do nothing to stop it 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Titled “Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto,” it expressed a hope that science would deliver painting from the dead hand of stultifying convention. Perspective | This incredibly charming painting emerged from a disturbing ideology They expect this for an event usually staged in stultifying Junes but postponed to the easier air and lesser daylight of September because of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Winged Foot’s soft pedal: Justin Thomas leads run of red numbers in U.S. Open’s first round 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Cut off from the world, sealed unto its smug self, a mecca of culture inevitably stultifies, perpetuating the status quo by rewarding those who court its approval. Opinion | Middle America cannot be forgotten unless it first forgets itself 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Now they had been moved to this motel with its shared toilets and atmosphere of stultified trauma. Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be Free 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z During stultifying summers they find relief in the cool of a nearby lagoon. Around the world in 8 great novels for Memorial Day 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Titled “Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto,” it expressed a hope that science would deliver painting from the dead hand of stultifying convention. Perspective | This incredibly charming painting emerged from a disturbing ideology “I think they found royal life stultifying. The problem with the press is that there is a controlled and uncontrolled press. It’s hard when you are very famous as they are.” Meghan Markle, Prince Harry ‘should live where their hearts tell them,’ says 'American Pie' singer Don McLean 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z Besides coolly explaining the facts in this terrifying and stultifying plague season, the governor of New York evokes the feeling of a big Italian family dinner table. Opinion | Let’s ‘Kick Coronavirus’s Ass’ 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z And, what is perhaps more important to our country’s future, is this just the beginning of stultifying gridlock? Editorial Roundup: New York 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z In addition to the stadium, organizers continued to build a sprawling athletes village at the edge of Tokyo Bay, where crews now scramble around the skeletons of high-rise buildings in the stultifying heat. Tokyo's rough road to 2020 Summer Olympics 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z While the stultifying style of “Sunset” expresses urgency and immediacy from moment to moment, it never, ever elucidates or illuminates. ‘Sunset’ review: A woman’s journey into darkness fails to illuminate 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z This would give them the freedom to be creative and to choose where they work, while breaking the stultifying hold of department heads, and creating competition between universities keen to attract talent. Japanese universities test collaboration 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z The 22-year-olds met at Pacific Union College, a small Adventist school in Napa Valley that, while isolating and often stultifying to them, was a crucible for finding and asserting themselves through music. Local R&B duo Closegood found themselves through music 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z It helps us move past the stultifying stereotypes that stifle the meaningful exchange of ideas and limit our growth as a society. In defense of Fox News: What Democrats miss by skipping a debate on the conservative cable channel 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But unless we are faced with a steady diet of stultifying boredom, we never learn how. Opinion | Let Children Get Bored Again 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z And they offer a stultifying choice that doesn’t change 365 days of the year, which kills the urge to cook. 'Shake up your shopping ... and start cooking' – how to get better at healthy eating 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z In addition to the disquiet regarding the side’s stultifying style, there was further disappointment at Mourinho’s development and improvement of United’s younger players. José Mourinho sacked: Manchester United to appoint caretaker – live reaction! 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z So many insider terms, so stultifying to the millions of viewers whose eyes glaze over at the mention of them — RPO means Run/Pass option, but it might as well mean Really Pretentious Observation. Ask Farmer: Why don’t announcers explain what terms like 'two deep' and 'RPO' mean? - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z She fled the stultifying normality of her small-town upbringing, driven by huge ambition and carried by her talent into a world of power, glamour and fame. Marie Colvin: ‘She illuminated the cost of war through individuals’ pain’ 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z It sounds stultifying, but that is how most machine-learning systems are trained. Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Keep Learning 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z "Growing up in Singapore, it's such a prosaic, staid, boring, stultifying place," she says. Before she was so rudely interrupted: 'Shirkers' director Sandi Tan on realizing a dream deferred - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z “Political life is so stultified in Egypt; there are no frontal challenges to the state or big national institutions. So in that context, this dispute takes on political overtones.” Egypt’s Soccer Star Aims for a New Goal: Humbling His Own Bosses 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Suburban housing developments get a bad rap sometimes: cookie cutter, anonymous, stultifying. Perspective | In Burke, Va., neighbors raise a fitting tribute to the ‘mayor of Woodhirst’ 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z But now, the research we’ve long needed to shoot a cupid’s arrow through the stultifying notion that any marriage is better than none is here. If you're in a bad marriage, don't try to mend it – end it | Nichi Hodgson 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z They inevitably lead to mountains of dense legal documents with stultifying terms like “collateral estoppel” and “implied warranty of merchantability.” The Costumes Are Bananas. So Is the Lawsuit Over Them. 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z But where Rodin made inanimate pieces multi-dimensional, “Rodin” remains a stultifying block. The biopic 'Rodin' about the famous French sculptor lacks shape and drama 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Even before Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helped open a partisan divide on Israel in American politics, where previously there had been stultifying unanimity. A grotesque spectacle in Jerusalem 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z It is an achievement to captivate readers with a story about something as stultifying as golf equipment. Review | The golf mastery and human foibles of Tiger Woods 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z These are the doldrums, and the situation grows tangibly more stultifying when the leaderboard is bereft of household names. Jason Day is saving a star-challenged leaderboard at Quail Hollow - Golf Digest 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z But it’s easy to see how stultifying his lifestyle is to someone who doesn’t share his obsessive need for predictability and order. The science fiction film Jonathan plays like a lost Black Mirror episode 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z And in some ways even more significant, Trump has pushed back against the stultifying political correctness that has chilled free expression and thereby undermined the foundation of free government in the United States. Opinion | The conservative renaissance has begun 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z “Free” higher education would stultify this—eliminating the need for schools to compete for students to bring in revenue, and inevitably transferring decision-making from institutions to the government bureaucrats paying the bills. Should College Education Be Free? 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Conservatives brand Mr Petro a “castrochavista”, intent on importing Fidel Castro’s stultifying socialism and the chaos of next-door Venezuela, which follows the teachings of the late Hugo Chávez and is sending economic refugees into Colombia. The contenders to succeed Colombia’s peacemaking president 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Burrows is trapped not only in a ludicrous wig but also in a cumbersome accent and stultifying Brahmin cadence. As Kennedy bios go, 'Jackie Unveiled' is more sketch than portrait 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z And fame can be disorienting even without the utterly dehumanizing and stultifying effects of incarceration; Manning endured seven years of imprisonment, which totally disconnected her from the rapidly evolving online discourse around the extreme right. We need to talk about Chelsea Manning 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z And to have faith that this season will defy the prevailing pessimism and be marked by contention and progress toward the end of their stultifying 16-year playoff drought. Jerry Dipoto keeps the faith in Mariners’ starting pitching, while others see a gaping hole 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed, 32, is leading a campaign to overhaul and energize his stultified society, including with outlandish proposals such as a $500 billion city on the Red Sea run by robots. Tiny, Wealthy Qatar Goes Its Own Way, and Pays for It 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Narrated by a woman called Elena – or Lenu – the series follows her life and that of her friend Lila as they rebel against the poor and stultifying Naples neighbourhood they grew up in. Elena Ferrante to become Guardian Weekend's new columnist 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z At times, it can be refreshing and enlightening to see media and perspective that doesn’t labor under stultifying FCC obscenity codes, to hear voices we might not have otherwise heard. It’s not just Logan Paul and YouTube — the moral compass of social media is broken 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z That leads to stultified writing and stultified shows. Stephen Sondheim, Theater’s Greatest Lyricist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump, a real estate developer at the time, described the Reagan tax law as an albatross on the economy, warning that such sweeping changes were disrupting deals and stultifying economic growth. null 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z She found it stultifying and believes she developed her writing skill in spite of such lessons, not because of them. A Wakeup Call on Writing Instruction (Now, What’s an Adverb?) 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Ionesco’s potentially deadly penchant for repetition is rendered skillfully enough to convey the intended message about conformity’s stultifying effect without inducing it in the audience. A disconcertingly timely revival of 'Rhinoceros' warns of the easy surrender to herd mentality 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z I avoided parenthood for the best part of 40 years, having been led to believe it would feel like a stultifying trap compared to the excitement of wage-earning work. Women can still have it all. Can’t they? | Victoria Coren Mitchell 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z The left’s group-think, from college campuses to comedy clubs, is mentally stultifying. The fall of Kathy Griffin 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Here are some reasons to hate Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë: it is moralistic and stultifying; it flattens Brontë’s brilliantly transgressive nature and confines her to a saccharine version of Victorian female victimhood. Elizabeth Gaskell: Charlotte Brontë's unlikely defender against prurient gossip 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Nochlin focussed her polemic on “stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging” sexism in art and art-history education, which burdened students with myths and hagiographies of invariably male “genius.” Women Artists in a Man’s World 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z De Stijl reduced artistic forms to fundamental terms, and the notion of restrictions appealed to White, who believes that, as far as his imagination is concerned, having too many choices is stultifying. Jack White’s Infinite Imagination 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The authors describe trends that have blocked the formation of new businesses and jobs and that are having a stultifying effect on the economy. Is the U.S. Economy Too Dynamic, or Not Dynamic Enough? 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z I fear for the Philippines as I envision the kind of hopeless, dystopian future brought by this kind of stultifying population explosion. President Duterte’s List 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Cubans, though, particularly young ones, often speak about change after decades of living in a stultifying economic system, even after some slight openings under Raúl Castro. Cubans Begin Week of Mourning Fidel Castro 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Yes, it had made her, but it had also stultified her – for many people, she will always be Princess Leia. Carrie Fisher on Harrison Ford: ‘I love him. I'll always feel something for him’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z There was nothing unhappy about his childhood, but there was something stultifying about suburbia. Johnny Marr: ‘The conversation about re-forming came out of the blue' 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Though the footage might seem stultifying, it racks up views. Young, Digitally Savvy and Just Fine With a Little Grime in Their Subway Cars 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z In 2012, Mitt Romney defied his reputation for stultifying oratory by extolling the romantic bond between his parents, recalling the rose his father, George, left on the pillow every morning for his wife, Lenore. Escape His Caricature? Donald Trump Passes Up the Chance 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z These were, after all, sissy liberals engaged in stultifying cultural squabbles. How ‘Political Correctness’ Went From Punch Line to Panic 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z The article’s discussion of “political correctness” — and of a language of “privilege” that its targets may find stultifying or insulting — spoke to the experience of some readers. ‘America’s Moment of Reckoning’: Readers on Trump’s Language of Resistance 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The result of Portugal’s sometimes stultifying approach was that the much-anticipated duel between Real Madrid teammates—Bale and Ronaldo—never quite materialized. Ronaldo Powers Portugal to Euro Final 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z It’s an approach that could have seemed stultifying, but instead it serves to amplify the film’s otherworldly eeriness and ghoulish comedy, even as a creeping undercurrent of dread builds and builds in the background. Nicolas Winding Refn’s hypnotic 'Neon Demon' stylishly crosses fashion with horror 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Once freed of the stultifying straits of Brussels, he added, Britain could expand trade with faster-growing parts of the globe like China, India and the United States. ‘Brexit,’ a Feel-Good Vote That Could Sink Britain’s Economy 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The troubled museum testifies to the stultifying atmosphere Xi has created. Beijing Goes Retrograde With Its Authority 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Join in a struggle to build an anti-racist America, or accept racism “as a given” and rejoin the masses in stultified maintenance of a futureless status quo. How American oligarchs created the concept of race to divide and conquer the poor 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z One big challenge for Obama will be squaring the careful diplomatic rhetoric that’s a standard, and frequently stultifying, part of all presidential visits with his tougher, more honest language from interviews back home. A cold-eyed view of allies has left Obama with few overseas friends 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The large audience chamber at the top of the gatehouse above the Khorasan Gate was a particular favourite of Mansur as an afternoon retreat from the stultifying heat. Story of cities #3: the birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z So the majority — many of them middle-class professionals in their homelands, now stuck in grimy destitution — engage in a stultifying waiting game. Kurdish migrants mired in a stultifying waiting game on the muddy coast of France 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z But Sanders isn’t like most politicians, and he sometimes doesn’t abide by the often stultifying conventions of modern Presidential elections. Bernie Sanders Is Looking Beyond Saturday’s Democratic Debate 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Mrs. Prada found it all at once enchanting and stultifying, and she still battles with the residue of mannerliness it left her with. WSJ. Magazine’s 2015 Fashion Innovator is still fully in control of her business. Now she has amplified her legacy with the new Fondazione Prada 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In “Veronica,” Alison throws herself into the European modelling scene to break with the stultifying normalcy of her suburban family life. Mary Gaitskill, Master of Desire 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It feels somehow apt to have you back on the OBO for a Test match as potentially stultifying as this.” Pakistan v England: third Test, day one – live! 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z It allows us to escape the stultifying conventions of our lives. Halloween, horror: harmless fun or a step too far? 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z In religious schools funded by the American Missionary Association, the paternalism was often stultifying. The future of historically black colleges 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z In those days, he occupied himself by writing freelance articles—critiques of the stultifying effects of office work or the social-control mechanism of television—and by making very low-budget educational filmstrips. Bernie Sanders, The Populist Prophet 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z For a long time, our business was trapped in a stultifying state of mourning — things were changing, people hated change and many threw up their hands. Farhad and Mike’s Week in Tech: Welcoming Our New Media Overlords 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z It feels somehow apt to have you back on the OBO for a Test match as potentially stultifying as this.” Pakistan v England: third Test, day one – live! 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z He found the legal work stultifying and, having volunteered for Stevenson’s successful 1948 run for Illinois governor, soon became an invaluable aide-de-camp. William McC. Blair Jr., Democratic political confidant, dies at 98 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z For others, focusing on a project was a way of combating the stultifying boredom. William Ash: The cooler king - BBC News 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Western zoos poured millions of dollars into panda displays – pandas cost $1m a year to borrow from China – with scant thought for their conservation, while China’s domestic panda work was stultified by bureaucracy and paranoia. Everything you always wanted to know about panda sex (but were afraid to ask) | Sam Knight 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Here I remember the stultifying heat of the early-afternoon sun, which is bleaching the walls. How to take better holiday photos through science 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z I remember reading novels because the life within them was more exciting, the characters more attractive, the freedom more exhilarating than anything in the reality around me, which seemed stultifying, parochial and enclosed. Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z It’s been replaced by a stultifying air of aloofness. Yes, 14th Street may be better these days, but something vital is missing 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z The changes were necessary for a Bush team that had become stultified by tensions and a lack of clear lines of authority. Today in Politics: Jeb Bush Heads to Europe to the Sound of Musical Chairs 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Similarly, by sentencing the Palestinian child to life in a small, stultified village with no means for development, the plan keeps the child from being aware of all the opportunities available to any other person. Israeli rights groups join battle to save symbol of Arab resistance to evictions 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z A vigorous campaigner, he crisscrossed the country touting his economic record in Gujarat, which had grown faster than most other Indian states, developing a reputation as a business-friendly haven in a stultifying swamp of bureaucracy. How Narendra Modi Wants to Change India 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z There was little means of escaping this stultifying atmosphere until, in 1863, the American inventor James Leonard Plimpton patented a four-wheeled roller skate that was capable of turning. The Victorian craze that sparked a mini-sexual revolution 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Mr Castañeda’s life is a denial of the Marxist belief that class conflict drives history, which still exerts a stultifying influence over the contents of the region’s non-fiction bookshelves. The neglected art of biography 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z But for too many younger voters in Britain the ritual of debate in the Houses of Parliament probably seems very stultifying. What should we do with the Palace of Westminster? 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Workers say the frustration over grindingly low pay is mingled with stultifying labor and petty abuse. Mexico's Baja farmworkers strike for better conditions 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z They were a breath of antithetical air following the stultifying and point-challenged scrums that threatened the popularity of the sport. Steve Nash Stands on His Own as an Ideal of Team Play 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z A convincing rebuke to long ball’s stultifying pragmatism emerged in the Netherlands, at one club in particular: Ajax Amsterdam, which also happens to be the Dutch van Gaal’s former team. Boring Winners and Long Ball in England 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Today, no other agricultural commodity faces such a stultifying collection of laws and regulations. Valentine's Day Would Be Sweeter Without U.S. Sugar Subsidies 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z The cream of Russian society is voting with its feet, leaving a stultifying, ever more corrupt environment for greener pastures that allow them to productively apply their talents. How Russia props up Putin in the polls 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z She stopped working to care for him, but she soon found suburban life stultifying; she missed the salon, lived hours from the rest of her family and felt increasingly isolated and overwhelmed. Helping a Queens Woman With Professional Development 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z There may yet be reason to hope that Paul can serve as a disruptive force within the Republican Party and within what looks to be the dreadful, stultifying totality of the 2016 electoral cycle. Why Elizabeth Warren and Rand Paul offer glimmers of hope — but not for 2016 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z But the worst part of the gig, the guys agreed, might be the stultifying tedium of being stuck in a tiny room all day and night waiting for an order you knew would never come. What to do, see, and read this weekend 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z The likeliest outcome would then be a continuation of divided government or a return to the stultifying rule of the PPP. A 60-year schism 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z For people of an active disposition, the Gulf War, irrespective of its high-tech thrills, its stunning successes and surprising brevity, could have been stultifying to soldiers who weren’t involved in the fighting. Sen. John McCain Remembers the Female Vets of the Gulf War 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z It’s only in the grey, stodgy and stultified business and institutional worlds that we pretend that things aren’t changing all around us. The Truth About Best Practices 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z One of these involves thinking of Hong Kong as an enchanted fowl that gets protected, while the other likens it to a precariously positioned songbird trying to stay alive and singing in a stultifying atmosphere. Hong Kong as Golden Goose and Coal Mine Canary This is not to say that MOOCs, even in their present stultifying form, can’t usefully replace most colleges, but this is simply because the bar is so low. How B.F. Skinner Will Save Online Education 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Maxmean and Ms. Sousa are among dozens of Rhode Island residents who are seeking their place beyond the safe but stultifying island of a sheltered workshop. A Couple Gaining Independence, and Finding a Bond 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z For a total of maybe five minutes, the travel pod takes you from this stultifying reality to a Hawaiian beach and London’s Tower 42. I visited virtual Hawaii from a hotel in Times square 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Its tension brings the stultifying place and period vibrantly to life, with its trapped women suffocating behind closed doors and the dusty orange glare beyond, "perpetual, like the lighting of a bad sci-fi film". The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel's new collection 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In this climate of stultifying top-down sameness and a lack of confidence from below, festivals still hold out the promise of something more edgy, more left-field. Republicans at Burning Man, Tories at Glastonbury – what does it mean? 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But an unchecked police force and a stultified regulatory bureaucracy can become a detriment to the society they are supposed to protect. Growth 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z Inconsistent planning and politics have so stultified Nasa, after all, that America today has no way to launch people into space. We can send humans back to space … if we fund Elon Musk instead of Nasa 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z For the first time, we are faced with a stultified public education system which is shrinking access to the American Dream. Frank Blethen: When we fail to educate our children we are destined for failure 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Every time the sport catches fire in the Sunbelt area of the country, the NHL stultifies the growth with a self-destructive labor dispute. Will NHL Finals Raise Hockey Awareness in Southern California? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z So it's stultifying AND it might be fixed? Inside the Fixing: How a Gang Battered Soccer’s Frail Integrity 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Joblessness blights lives, but so do crushing income inequality and a stultifying lack of opportunity, both hallmarks of Egypt's working poor. Abdel Fattah Sisi, Egypt's likely new leader, faces economic deja vu 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z I don't think it will work, even though there are older people who would prefer Britain to return to the emotionally stultifying era of their youth. The Britain of our youth was intolerant, now we find Farage intolerable 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z “The big granite walls inside are incredibly stultifying,” Mr. Rawn said. Breaking Out of the Library Mold, in Boston and Beyond 2014-03-08T02:06:46Z Because of poor infrastructure, stultifying labor rules and difficulties acquiring real estate, making anything in India is hard. World’s Biggest Arms Importer, India Wants to Buy Local 2014-03-07T02:12:51Z But starting about 10 years ago, members of the younger generation in Egypt began to rebel against the stultifying stability of Mr. Mubarak’s 30-year rule. A Chasm Grows Between Young and Old in Egypt 2014-02-17T01:40:11Z For any enveloped in Cameron’s stultifying censorship that extension can be found . The UK's ISP Porn Blocking System Lasts An Entire 24 Hours Before Being Bypassed 2013-12-21T13:33:00Z In Atlas Shrugged, entrepreneurs and other creative types face an America controlled by petty bureaucrats and other “looters and moochers” who pass all sorts of stultifying policies, confiscatory taxes, and others laws to punish high-achievers. Ayn Rand Would Have Loved Kickstarter 2013-09-27T19:51:12Z Very often the kind of towns that estate agents would describe as desirable are the most stultifying, the most ugly and the most unpleasant to live in. Crap Towns: Chipping Norton makes list of worst places to live in Britain 2013-07-10T15:02:47Z The actors demonstrated the stultifying effects of poor nutrition, followed by Mr. Ford’s energizing message: You are what you eat. Well: A Musical Message for Children on Healthy Eating 2013-05-06T04:01:11Z I wonder if LucasArts was creatively stultified by the sheer weight of expectation and history. LucasArts: closed by Disney, but killed by Star Wars? 2013-04-04T10:40:00Z But Saudi Arabia, known for its stultifying, draconian morality laws, still has a long way to go. Saudi Women Can Now Ride Bicycles 2013-04-03T17:20:00Z Whether it's a difficult conversation, a truly stultifying task or the unpleasant unwinding of a previous mistake, there are things you must do for your business that you really, really don't want to do. Do You Need a 'Guilt Hour'? 2013-03-26T13:47:27Z I've written about – been stultified by – this car before, then, just with a different badge. On the road: Seat Toledo SE 1.6 2013-03-09T08:59:02Z That much was evident when, after an hour's stultifying football, the exasperated Stoke manager sent on the strikers Cameron Jerome and Kenwyne Jones. Cameron Jerome strikes to open window of rich opportunity for Stoke 2013-02-10T23:00:02Z There are layers of stultifying management... there is duplication of roles, there are people working in silos, without co-operating with other people. Archbishop faces 'impossible job' 2013-02-04T04:41:20Z To this day I don't know why I was so stultified during this act, why I felt catatonic while they manipulated my leaden limbs for their amusement. ‘How I Survived’ 2013-01-06T05:00:00Z Yet the step beyond colonel, to general, is subject to a rigid and stultifying screen. Off the Shelf: ‘Bleeding Talent’ Sees a Military Management Mess 2013-01-05T21:26:07Z No. They brought lugubrious oral hearings, miasmic third-party complaints and the stultified pace of justice, leaving complainants waiting for months for any resolution. Leveson's legal eagles will repeat all the old mistakes 2012-12-16T00:06:11Z By raising energy costs, carbon taxes would be economically stultifying, and deeply regressive. Letters: Letters: Breaking the Silence on a Carbon Tax 2012-09-01T18:38:56Z And you get to visit the lovely Assembly rooms, where Jane Austen no doubt discussed the state of indie game development in Somerset, while supping tea and observing the stultifying cruelty of Georgian society. Friday game events round-up 2012-08-10T11:05:00Z While enduring a stultifying lecture or stuck in commuter traffic, some of us let our minds drift to the free flow of Steve Nash’s fast breaks or the details of the 1986 Mookie-Buckner game. Sports of The Times: Gilad Shalit, Israeli Former Hostage, Begins as Sportswriter 2012-06-28T02:36:33Z He would not stultify his intellect by voting for Peel's proposed increase of the Maynooth Grant in contradiction of his own book on Church and State. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z He that aims always at the performance of the oath he has taken, will assuredly find that God will not stultify Himself by failing to support him. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z The Presbyterians have provided for a revision of their creed, though they have stultified themselves by certain restrictions, shutting out the light they do not want! The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Not only would you fail to do anything real for the people, but you yourself would be stultified. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z Criticism has attempted to derive first one and then the other of the two from its fellow,—thus, in effect, stultifying itself. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z I said to myself that I would go away without giving you, after all, the chance to stultify yourself, the chance to exhibit clearly your insufferable and amazing conceit. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z This one distorts the beauty, degrades the sublimity, stultifies the meaning of the facts and the character wherein it has been founded, taking away all true grandeur from Jesus, benumbing our love and reverence. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z Keep my voters from the poll and you stultify your own, for there will be no election. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Through three games, Lin appears to have reordered the Knicks’ stultified universe; gotten their directionless offense flowing; evoked ridiculously early comparisons to Steve Nash; and become the pride of Asian-American fans. TV Sports: Lin?s Powers Are Limited, at Least in the Cable World 2012-02-11T02:54:21Z Of course, we could not, without stultifying ourselves and committing the greatest of crimes, hand back Cuba to Spain. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z It is conspicuously free from that Oriental mysticism which stultifies so much of the later pagan philosophy of Europe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z To restore physicians to their baseline state of virginal professional purity, the Act mandates a stultifying series of reporting requirements, impacting amounts as little as $10. Stossel is right for demonizing the demonization of physician-industry relationships 2012-01-23T01:15:47Z And will the Christian world, then, hereafter stultify their common sense by ignoring these facts of history so fatal to their claims? The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z His passion had so completely stultified and altered him. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The men of the second century knew nothing of the spirit of the Mosaic faith, or they never would have stultified themselves by such a work as the fourth Gospel. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z Thus the new law stultifies itself almost in its opening sentences, while it makes it quite plain that the subversive intentions of its author were to affect all religious congregations without exception. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z And one neither sees how compensation is to be regulated, nor by whom; whether by a commission stultifying the present one, or by the same contradicting itself. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z After all, as he told himself, the atmosphere of Throgmorton Street had probably stultified his outlook. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The way in which the ushers were compelled to stultify themselves was a standing joke at Mecklemburg House. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z Archbishop, Hailsham will stultify himself by dragging religion into the sphere of practical politics yet.' A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z Under an appearance of good will, which only served to conceal its weakness, the Directory stultified itself in the face of Europe; the army alone by its victories sustained the honor of the nation. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z The latter has allowed its prejudices and its feelings to obliterate or to stultify its reason. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z Henry was evidently the spy, employed by Esterhazy, and afterwards Du Paty helped their machinations, in order not to stultify his own record at the original trial—at least this seems the plausible theory. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z He was too successful too young, and it stultified his gifts, as being successful too young usually does stultify the natural gifts of anybody. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The Uruguay he returned to in 1971 was stultifying as well. | Long Island: Rimer Cardillo Exhibit in Roslyn Harbor ? Review 2011-11-13T01:05:36Z His fears for Helen Hardwick had blunted his wits and stultified his reason, making him forget his old-time caution and nimbleness of mind. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z How was he to let her down from the dizzy height of her illusion without hurting her cruelly or stultifying himself? The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z Each felt too strongly on these subjects to give way, and thereby stultify his or her convictions. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Each, in their time, was instrumental in tearing down a stultified structure. Steve Jobs = John Lennon 2011-10-06T18:05:04Z There’s no regular wife-beating class, and there are none of the stultified peasants of whom it takes so many to make a European noble. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z In memorizing this simulated cut and dried copy of the logic of an adult, the child generally is induced to stultify his own subtle and vital logical movement. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z But he wasn’t helped by some of the stage direction and the orchestra under Domingo, which was overpowering and stultifying at times. Racette?s Tosca can?t save her lover, but gets Washington National Opera off to a good start 2011-09-13T22:35:55Z One can hardly wonder at Erskine's condemnation of his brother-in-law, out of his own mouth, as a stultified young fraud in the matter of Lord Manister. Tiny Luttrell 2011-09-07T02:00:16.757Z Something—something enveloping, stultifying and bewildering the understanding—dropped away from his soul, as a leaf drops from the tree which no longer nourishes it. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z And you, too, Hannah'li, when you come, will have to dress differently, for a custom stultifies a law—and it is their custom. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z Horne serves up the left's critique of Australia - he captures the stultifying conservatism of the post-war years for a start. Essential reading 2011-08-02T06:42:58Z It is to stultify oneself and to render one's author unintelligible. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z I should have stultified myself and the Evening Post if I had written more favorably of his work than I did. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Even so, let a Christian stand for Christianity, and not stultify his intellect by professing to hold to both religions. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z The main point is: Don’t stultify your creative instincts by trying to use critical training at the same time. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z We find that if we do not neglect or stultify any portion of our nature, our insight grows. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z So when this cafeteria culture hits the big city, does the collision somehow stultify economic activity? Cities, after all, need people out on the sidewalks. Ping: Silicon Valley Culture, but in San Francisco? 2011-07-02T17:37:14Z The same observations apply to the military, for whom secondary manœuvres and minute costume observances form a never relaxing and stultifying slavery. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z There was a poetic vein in young Ainsleigh, but troubles from his earliest childhood had stultified it considerably. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z Where dramatists in training waste their nervous energy and often stultify their best desires is in keeping critical tab upon themselves as they create. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z The permanent absence of children would stultify God's reason and character by rendering useless all that He is and all that He has made. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z But which, among the human faculties, did that delusion spell-bind, stultify, and make sanguinary? Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Right up until they accuse you of being stultifying old conformists. Brangelina Case Study: Will the Kids Get Their Parents to Marry? 2011-06-03T18:15:00Z He has, in them, deliberately emancipated himself from the folklorist influence under which he was in danger of stultifying himself. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z Invariably, those recent graduates delivered similar reports of Catholic life after Yale: stultifying parishes, aging congregations, irrelevant homilies, all resulting in a drift away. On Religion: Helping Catholic Students Remain Catholic in a Setting of Nietzsche and Beer Pong 2011-05-21T00:55:33Z Neither is it enough for a few scholars to see their way in the new order; they must show others how to be religious without stultifying their intellects. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z The pontifical absolution of September 17, 1595, finally stultified the League, which had been again betrayed by the unsuccessful plot of Jean Chastel, the Jesuit’s pupil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z The entire mind of the South either stultifies itself into acquiescence with Slavery, succumbs to its authority, or chafes in indignant protest against its monstrous pretensions and outrageous usurpations. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z Later he attended the University of Chicago where he studied physics, but once again found it stultifying. Joichi Ito to Be Named Head of M.I.T. Media Lab 2011-04-25T20:59:37Z "Be sober and abandon wrong practices which serve only to stultify the mind." The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z This, I am sure, can be done without, in any way, stultifying the intellect. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z But Lydie had no such misgivings; as she now sped through the park, she no longer saw its artificiality, its stunted rose trees and the stultified plantations. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He is one of Britain's cheerleaders for entrepreneurial capitalism, writing a national newspaper column that regularly decries the stultifying effect of red tape on small businesses. Luke Johnson: 'Capitalism is not a dirty, grubby pastime' 2011-04-01T05:59:01Z We cannot understand how this terrible superstition has obtained possession of the mind, nor how human beings can be so blinded and apparently stultified! Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z In prosperity he is dull and melancholy; the yellow dross seems to weigh down his spirit, to stultify it; empty his pockets, and it etherialises him. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z But the triumphs of stultifying Mrs. Gwynn in conversation were all inadequate to restore his usual serene satisfaction, and once more he looked restlessly about the rooms and sighed. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z That changes a mystery which stultified and contradicted the best we knew into a mystery which teaches, allures, elevates; which harmonizes what we know with what we hope. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z Stronger drink, much stronger, now became his refuge, and in stupefying his brain he stultified his conscience. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z Even if there were state surpluses across this great land, the stultifying effects of public employees unions, especially the teachers, would be a serious national conundrum to be dealt with. Wisconsin and the Public Employee Union Problem 2011-02-20T06:03:41Z Far from being engines of economic growth, Egypt's leading cities are stultified. In Egypt, Will an Economic Revolution Follow? 2011-02-12T05:00:00Z Thus it was that her attentive attitude was suddenly stultified by his direct appeal to her. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z This view was soon to be stultified by the effect of the coalition against France in 1792 of Prussia and Austria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z The very existence of this huge Empire seems to many people to stultify in some degree the cause for which the world's democracies are fighting. The Character of the British Empire 2011-02-07T03:00:24.553Z To follow a line of information to its bitter end was a wearisome, stultifying business, the reality he sought was lost sight of in the process. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z She also, in her overwhelming pride, believes that her own nationals in the States possess sufficient power to stultify any great war effort. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z I was stultified to be told that he had decided to chuck politics.” The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z It can also mean methods and styles used so many times that they become stultifying templates: overly recognizable, ready-made devices that, in particularly bad moments, feel like gimmicks. | Westchester: 18 Journeys Forged in Communism 2011-01-15T02:25:02Z The secession of the Southern States was a mere corollary of the American proposition of government; and the Northern States stultified themselves, the moment they attempted to resist it. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Don't stultify your womanhood with a sentimentalism which is the curse of your sex. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z The finest cutting machine unintelligently operated will stultify the best efforts of the printing plant. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z Any system of existences, any truth or matter of fact waiting to be recognised, contradicts the transcendental insight and stultifies it. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z She was as she had always been, her life stultified with beauty, a poised and arrested development of love. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Thousands of youngsters on each side of the Atlantic were hooked as the game was stripped of the stultifying and pernicious grip of the men in the stained nylon blazers. More rammies at the Ryder Cup, please 2010-10-02T23:07:00Z But, in spite of the physical discomforts and the stultifying grind, we were happy—we were together. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z So, for example, I found that the culture in Detroit, and at General Motors in particular, was even more bureaucratic and more stultified than what I would have guessed before I got there. Rattner Speaks: Chrysler, Congress and Khakis 2010-09-20T15:47:00Z The teacher’s union should be disbanded as I believe that the practice of tenure is the single most stultifying teacher’s right in our education system. New York Wins Race to the Top Grant 2010-08-24T15:34:00Z And with the stultifying heat, conditions were reported to be deteriorating in hospitals. Moscow Confirms Spike in Death Toll 2010-08-09T18:58:00Z Why haven’t we moved beyond the old, stultifying debate in the age of Obama? Political Times: Race: Still Too Hot to Touch 2010-07-24T18:33:00Z Before long, we may hear tales of stultifying weeks in Capello's severe company. World Cup 2010: FA must be satisfied Capello still has his enthusiasm |Kevin McCarra 2010-06-28T23:52:00Z Greece: The 2004 European champions have not done much since winning that title, but a stultifying defensive style can wear down opponents. Saturday WCup lookahead capsules 2010-06-11T13:46:00Z It shouldn't be stultified by going back to what it was. Well kept curves 2010-05-18T15:47:00Z Audiences are stultified by presenters reading off jumbled electronic outlines. The Underground Art Of PowerPoint 2010-05-11T10:00:00Z As a player he was patient, systematic and unflappable – trapping his victims like flies in a web with stultifying safety play, then pouncing. Steve Davis interview ? 'Some people got angry, I got emotional 2010-05-07T23:15:00Z Sarries were the most stultifying side, climbing to the top of the Premiership but being booed by their own supporters for showing less daring than a fully clothed streaker. Northampton 27-28 Saracens 2010-04-24T19:52:00Z Life in the factory served to stunt the growth and stultify the intellect of those who did not possess, like himself, that piercing, that vitalizing determination to keep looking upwards. Capricious Caroline If the isolation of Ireland from European politics has stultified her erratic excursions into foreign affairs, it has even more seriously affected the political relations of England and Ireland during the past four years. The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin Street’s career is a warning how real architectural talent and vigour may be stultified by a sentimental adherence to a past phase of architecture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Woodrow Wilson received these votes and without these and other votes controlled by "the interests" he could not have been nominated, and if Bryan now supports him he simply stultifies himself before the American people. Labor and Freedom And at length, after hours of such stultifying employment, I elect to call myself "free," and go forth to enjoy my "well-earned" leisure. The Jonathan Papers To prevent their fulfilment were to stultify their existence. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath "She knows no pity," shrieked the fierce South wind, "She steals your youth and stultifies your mind." Provocations At this time the Liberals practically stultified themselves by agreeing to discuss and finally to approve the loan project which they had formerly opposed. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress. An Atheist Manifesto "Twenty-six miserable boys are already having a detestable and stultifying education in this wretched class," lamented Mr. Neech. Sinister Street, vol. 1 He went on hammering: "Here I've got to go and stultify myself, arguing against my own decision when I was on the bench!" The Haunted Pajamas In his old prejudice against what he had confusedly termed business he had always recoiled as before a leveling process, stultifying to the imagination, a thing of mechanical movements and disciplined drudgery. Making Money My respect for law is weakened, my regard for the rights of others seems stultified. The Bachelors A Novel Emancipate yourself from these stultifying creeds, and protect your children from the contamination of religion. An Atheist Manifesto There had been a deep instinct, like one of nature's cruel yet righteous laws, in Milly's withdrawal; to have consented, to have compromised, would have been to stifle and stultify herself. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Thus always do the gods, in their severity, send only unforeseen evils to stultify our self-complacency. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise It means that he stultified himself by making his conception of God absolutely contradict the essentials of his system. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Whereupon he stultified himself and made a promise. A Romance in Transit In deference to Tibetan wishes, we allowed nearly every clause of the treaty to be separately stultified. The Unveiling of Lhasa What could have seemed to Him more monstrous, what could more effectually have stultified the work and aim of His life, than that He, being a man, should allow Himself to be taken for God? The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II By doing anything of this kind a captain not only attempts to conquer his opponents by unfair means and false representations, but he stultifies himself. Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 Jenny's sensibility had not been stultified by these emotional ills, so that when he crossed her horizon, she loved him sanely without prejudice. Carnival Besides carrying her own fardel, this poor wife was expected to fold and direct wrappers for her husband's precious journal, he finding "mechanical writing too exhausting and stultifying." The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. I can't stultify myself to prove this poor girl an adventuress. Rose MacLeod As a matter of fact, we cannot do anything else unless we would stultify ourselves. The Christian View of the Old Testament "What truly sensitive soul could exist in a stultifying atmosphere like this?" Once a Greech He tried to think of something to say, and gave it up, stultified by his compassion. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur Hazlitt resided in Southampton Buildings when he fell in love with the tailor's daughter and wrote that most stultifying confession of his vanity and weakness, "The New Pygmalion." Old and New London Volume I Therefore at Athens, after twenty years of stultifying war, the right of the individual to free expression and self-development was scrupulously respected. Pot-Boilers Another Hohenzollern Prince ruling in Athens, nicknamed “Tino” by his affectionate relative the Kaiser, for three years stultified the will of his people, who were determined to join the cause of the Allies. German Problems and Personalities One, the astonishing but undeniable fact of his father's belief and sincerity, the other, what would happen if that belief and sincerity were suddenly stultified. The Come Back There is nothing so unconvincing, so stultifying to one’s statements, as to express them epigrammatically. The Moving Finger But obviously it would be a foolish and stultifying thing for me to think of leaving my hermitage. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Yet somehow so it was, that, if he was able to stultify his reason, he did not quite succeed to his satisfaction with his conscience. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Our amateurs write purely for love of their art, without the stultifying influence of commercialism. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 The human mind struggling within its own narrow bounds could not overcome the stultifying and sterilizing influence of such a religion. History of Human Society To add more traits, to be too clever, to start the hare of moral or intellectual interest while we are running the fox of material interest, is not to enrich but to stultify your tale. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 I couldn't possibly say guilty and deliver her over to a violent death, without controverting my published opinions, and, so to speak, stultifying myself. The Broom-Squire Consequently, it is a vast sea in which are found abundantly the resources necessary to mix up matters and stultify the course of justice. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. With a brain stultified by faith** she proposed to regulate investigations in which the habit of faith would necessarily prove fatal to the discovery of truth.*** Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures Individual action would be continually stultified by the process of accepting through credulity the trite sayings of the ancients. History of Human Society It led naturally to the filthy wretches, called monks, who dreaded the sight of a woman, and hoped to please God by stultifying nature. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) He would not stultify his own proceedings, and declare that everything which he had done was wrong. Marion Fay To do so would be to stultify themselves. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule I do not believe that it is "just as well" to spread any dogma that stultifies reason and ignores common-sense. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures It is obvious that such instruction is stultifying to the teacher and can never develop in the student a liberal and cultured outlook upon life. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College It was not the outcome of ignorance that cramps and stultifies. The Prisoner Marks of reticence are on all those faces: lips shut, eyes shaded, each one of the five doing something to hide or stultify his knowledge. Monday or Tuesday The Dublin folks never really believed a British Parliament would so stultify itself. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule She left a little note of farewell, simple and loyal, hopeful, yet somehow stultified. Valley of Wild Horses In reality it is often much better to take our facts second hand; the stultifying thing is to take our conclusions so. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College He had made money, and had had splendid opportunities to make a great deal more if he had been willing to stultify his conscience, but that he had never been able to do. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel An army composed of intelligent Americans, blinded, stultified by intriguers, declares for a general who never, up to this day, covered with glory his or the army's name. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Rowlett studied his companion much as he might have studied someone who calmly admits a stultifying ignorance. The Roof Tree This theory represents mercy as always stultified until Christ satisfied justice. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 It is true of dishonest men, who try to stultify their religious nature, and make the world believe that they are genuine, honest infidels. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 In speaking of what Christianity has done for woman, Dr. Strong stultifies his own assertions by referring to Switzerland and Germany "where you may see any day hundreds of women wheeling earth for railroad embankments." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III One part of the press, stultified and stupefied, staggered under the blow; the other part showed its utter degradation by fawning on Scott and attacking the Congress, or its best part. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 I pointed out that time might stultify this selection of a title. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman She says, "I always felt stultified up to this hour, for Justice was always dissatisfied and frowning." The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 This had great importance in racial survival, but had very stultifying effects on individual personality. Deathworld Again, the Supreme Court of the United States, by its recent decision in the Minor-Happersett case, has stultified its own interpretation of constitutional law. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Sectarianism in education stultifies and robs the child and nullifies the finest national instincts in education. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit The hypothesis, makes the apostle to stultify himself as a logician. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Can you Republicans so utterly stultify yourselves, can you so entirely work against yourselves, as to refuse us a Declaratory Law? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Nothing could possibly be more stultifying to the musical instinct of the child. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression It is humiliating to know that many educated women so stultify their consciences as to declare that they have all the rights they want. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I To characterize patronage as un-American, stultifying, is preposterous. The Dominant Dollar The destruction of stultifying superstitions is as necessary in education and literature as in religion. Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 The Democrats readily saw how completely the Republicans were stultifying themselves and violating every principle urged in the debates on the 13th Amendment, and volunteered to help the women fight their battle. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The compromise mentioned above as having been effected between Yedo and Kyoto had the effect of stultifying the previously drafted edict which condemned the shogun for concluding a treaty without consulting the feudatories. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era In August the crisis was already so acute that the Government, yielding to the fears of its Irish advisers, stultified itself by proposing the renewal of the Arms Bill until the following spring. Lord John Russell Yet such a movement, if it is really proceeding, will obviously stultify the most well-intentioned schemes that are not in accordance with it. Change in the Village But I do not think the Atonement is such a very great mystery after all, and it ought to be possible to get at the heart of it without stultifying the intellect. The New Theology But if the world interferes to stultify me, then, nevertheless I shall still be both, and the law can keep the title it refuses me. Athalie How can you stultify yourself till you neither can see nor hear? The Wagnerian Romances I had taken a false step while under the baneful influence of some drug which had stultified my own volition and held me powerless to resist the temptation. The Stretton Street Affair The scene of The First Person Singular shifts between the kinetic panorama of modern New York and the somewhat stultifying quietude of a small Pennsylvania town. When Winter Comes to Main Street As a roving claim investigator, I avoided the more stultifying paper work inherent in this line of work and had the additional luxury of an expense account nobody ever questioned. The Risk Profession One must see this passage black on white in order to believe the Wittenbergers really capable of stultifying themselves in such an incredible manner. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church So far as the latter is in itself successful, it stultifies the former; and we admit at last that the idea of one art aiding another in this xxvi combination is absolutely fictitious. Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature When persecution partakes of a stern, unrelenting nature, such as has recently been meted out to Chinese converts, it certainly destroys, or at least stultifies, growth. Life and sport in China Second Edition If cohabitation is only a marital prerogative, the law should not stultify itself by recognizing it as possible to occur in any other relation. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Now that we have won, and established for all time its unity, shall we stultify ourselves by declaring we were wrong? The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan He would not be God if there were any power not derived from, or supplied by Him, or if the actual course of events could annul His decrees and stultify His knowledge. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church It would, in fact, be to make this learned Father stultify himself to suppose that he proceeds gravely to discuss a portion of Scripture which he had already deliberately rejected as spurious. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Life is very precarious, and when an author dies, his unpublished writings are too frequently either lost to the world, or presented in a shape which all but stultifies them. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Education on such lines seems curiously false to many minds, as well as stultifying. 'Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers Germany's ambitions stultified—Austria forgiving—both nations involved in a great undertaking the prosecution of which must make them careless of all less vital issues! The Secret Witness "Have I ever done anything to stultify, degrade you, or impair your self-respect?" Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing All attempts at explanation have been stultified by an ignorance of the facts to be explained, or by a partial survey of them, and especially by a neglect of the evidence afforded by fossils. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Even if it be theoretically clarifying, through being hospitable to all differences and adequate to the multifarious demands of experience, is it not on that very account morally dreary and stultifying? The Approach to Philosophy Yon are fully aware how much of the fault is your own; but you are stultified and hardened to shame. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 She had balked an ambitious woman, stultified all her efforts to advance the fortunes of her children, and had written her husband before the House of Habsburg a traitor to his Emperor and his country. The Secret Witness It is indeed a corollary of the dogma of liberty of conscience; for to assume liberty of conscience without equality of intelligence would be to stultify the assumption. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics For such is the stultifying effect of a civilized environment. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility I believe the human race is improving, despite the disadvantageous surroundings and conditions which hamper honest effort and stultify truth. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies That such opinion is out of place and stultifying in a question of Art never occurs to him, and it is therefore frankly cited as, in a way, conclusive. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies It was a choice that from the first moment not only defeated but almost stultified the liberal movement. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement I am seeking to find what it could have been that I saw in your eyes, or your face, or your manner, that has so 'stultified' me. Princess Zara Having said this, let me stultify myself—but for private ears alone—as a bit of personal history, not an explanation to be appended to the score. Greener Than You Think Trust this unfortunate event does not stultify your arrangements. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Shall I be made to stultify myself by what I never said—and shall the strength of your testimony turn upon me? The Gentle Art of Making Enemies The delight of her own loveliness, of her own triumphant health and activity, would have been increased tenfold by the sight of, by power over, such stultified and hopelessly disfranchised human creatures. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance You prate of stultifying yourself by taking the oath of nihilism, and repudiating your word to Alexander. Princess Zara Of these two the parents are often the worse, for, since the late enactment of child labor laws, they do not hesitate to stultify themselves by false affidavits as to the child's real age. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills We could not repress indignation, nor by any philosophic or charitable effort excuse the atrocious tyranny which here lashed, chained, handcuffed, tortured, shot, and hung, hundreds of people whom it could not stultify or impress. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War As N. B. Myers went over to the Hampton House it is not probable that he would stultify himself by voting for Hayes and acknowledging Hampton as Governor. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 He said it was "to pay the highest compliment to the institution of slavery," and "stultify ourselves." Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 But, in the nineteenth century, not only was our insular prejudice extreme, but there was a pride in our very prejudice, which made it seem hopelessly fixed and stultified. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland It was rather with astonishment and even an appreciation of the absurd, than any serious apprehension, that he now suddenly saw how he had stultified himself, and come near doing himself a fatal injury. Potts's Painless Cure 1898 Not only was the living presence of a most valuable functionary stultified by No. 3, but he, like all his slack kind, must babble on parade. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916 To reply in the affirmative would have been to justify the work of healing; a negative answer would have stultified them. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern The ballot for the negro was a logical necessity, and it was a matter of the least possible consequence whether the granting of it would "stultify ourselves" or not. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 Without stultifying our reason, it develops all that makes men godlike. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell It occurred to him that modern education existed largely to stultify independent thought. Security He seemed a little stultified by this turn of affairs; but though he was down the fall had not knocked any of the ambition out of him; he immediately went at it again. The Wrong Woman To say that Israel had never been in bondage was not only to convict themselves of falsehood but to stultify themselves wretchedly. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern The confusion of goodness with beauty is, therefore, doubly stultifying. The Moral Economy Women despise logic, and consequently would not stultify it. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Do you suppose I'm going to spend my time building churches and stultifying myself just for the sake of gratifying your idle whims? The Holy Cross and Other Tales “More than that,” said Rooney, with decision; “he must be stultified.” Red Rooney The Last of the Crew It was not for nothing that Milton stultified the professed moral of his poem, and emptied it of all spiritual content. Milton Quite obviously much of the music that is written has been composed with no such intent, therefore and to that extent it stultifies itself. Spirit and Music Our industrial system has resulted in almost stultifying men economically and making most of them economically non-productive. Fundamentals of Prosperity What They Are and Whence They Come But he is attached to the Art Department of the Ministry of Education and has to put in an appearance every day—a duty which goes a long way to stultify one's inspirations. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 How heavy a bill Nature collects of him in whom the sexual instinct has been permitted to taint the whole life with illicit thoughts and deeds, stultifying the intellect, deadening the sensibilities, dwarfing the soul! Pushing to the Front For, in spite of all discouragement from the materialists, men stultified by trade or tradition, we have trusted the high desire and followed it thus far. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A séance for initiation was held accordingly, but Miss Vaughan would have none of profanation, and refused blankly to stultify her liberal intelligence by the stabbing of a wheaten wafer. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer But the jury which tried that case probably consisted entirely of senators, who would not stultify their own proceedings by condemning him. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order We shall learn through dada-ism that art is a witty and entertaining pastime, and not to be accepted as our ever present and stultifying affliction. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Already, the author stated, the seeds of a massive and stultifying conformity were present in the nations of the world. The Status Civilization Mr. William Chaplain, of New York, had repeatedly urged him to flee by way of the underground railroad, but he was so demoralized and stultified by slavery that he would not make an effort. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 To introduce mental activity is to arrest the dynamic activity, and stultify true dynamic development. Fantasia of the Unconscious I, however, refrain from hostility to their cause owing to my friendship for him, and yet I cannot approve, lest I should stultify my own past. The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Hesitation to use our freedom in the future would only stultify our action in the past. The Letter of the Contract No; they sell their birthright for a red coat and a pittance, renounce their independence and stultify the natural ambition that should stimulate every man worthy of the name. Ranching, Sport and Travel Having said what M. Renan says, they did not stultify themselves logically. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy At this stage of history all advances stopped, and for the following reason: With the coming of Christianity this science, as well as all others, was stultified. The Necessity of Atheism All over the world socialists are breaking away from the stultifying influence of the outworn determinism. A Preface to Politics It would be a lighter doom, I thought, to be 114rived and shriveled by the lightning flash of a modern book, even “Crime and Punishment,” than stultified by such as were within. Journeys to Bagdad |
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