| 单词 | stifling |
| 例句 | Despite the blinds, the sun filtered through in places and the air was already stifling. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The place was stiflingly hot and noisy and buzzing with flies. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of the linseed was stifling, and now, on the second day, the pain had really begun. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweating profusely day and night, training in the sun, unable to sleep in stifling hotel rooms and YMCAs, lacking any appetite, virtually every athlete lost a huge amount of weight. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z No, cold winds to blow this stifling heat away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Each night I had to keep the window wide open; it was the only source of air in the stifling room, and the noise was intolerable. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The sanctuary had trapped the sticky heat of the past several days, which came close to stifling anyone wearing a starched white shirt with a starched white collar. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t know if it was the emptiness, the stifling heat, or the fact it was only nine o’clock, but I couldn’t settle into sleep despite how tired I was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time she might have made an effort to regain her composure; but her one thought was to quit the stifling atmosphere of church and reach the open air. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Smells of the supper began to fill the stifling room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In the summer, the cars were stiflingly hot because none were air-conditioned. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In and out, in and out, my lungs gasp in the stifling heat of my room, life flowing through me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “I’ll read ’em,” Bigger said, stifling a yawn and stuffing the booklets into his pocket. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He tucked them one under each armpit, and crushed them fiercely to his sides; a great stifling hand was clapped over each of their mouths. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Gradually, the cool air receded and it was stifling again. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Even absent the stifling heat of the previous year, the accommodations were decidedly uncomfortable. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was stifling, like a blanket, like an anaesthetic. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The room was stifling, so the knight had opened the shutters to let in a cross breeze. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He leaned in toward me, seemingly incapable of stifling the smile. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Sure I do,” she said as though stifling a yawn. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The room was stifling with a weird tension, this strange sadness, when finally Shannon spoke up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now the new fear that was stifling her broke from her lips in an anguished whisper. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Despite the stifling heat of the room, he wears a long-sleeved shirt that buttons at the wrists—he must have been distracted when he dressed this morning. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The scent of lilies is stifling and when Celia can no longer tolerate it, she transforms all of the flowers into roses. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z An eternity later—or maybe it had been only ten minutes—the air bubble around them was beginning to feel stale and stifling. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z What my sensations were, no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The room stank of Jordan's suffocating cologne, stifling smoke, and fear. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In his great need he drew out once more the phial of Galadriel, but it was pale and cold in his trembling hand and threw no light into that stifling dark. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The sidewalks of Williamsburg were cracked squares of cement, the streets paved with asphalt that softened in the stifling summers and broke apart into potholes in the bitter winters. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He spent his adolescence in the same Washington, D.C., suburbs as McCandless and found them every bit as stifling. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with the stifling crowds, there were jugglers and swordsmen and curio sellers and camels lumbering under the weight of tourists in starched suits and petticoats. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The sick lay in the stiflingly hot building unattended, calling out for water, moaning pitifully, and vomiting on themselves. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Even across the gym, it seemed she could smell his stifling cologne. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was firm and demanding but not authoritative and stifling. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A principal at a school in Shanghai that figured into the international testing was concerned enough about the stifling atmosphere that he instituted reforms to foster more creativity. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The reek of them hung stifling in the still air. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I remember it being stifling that day, even though we had the fan rattling behind us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman in the green dress clapped her hand over Fayge’s mouth, stifling the scream, pulling her onto the sandy floor. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A big, prosperous city rising up on its own in the stifling Amazon forest? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Small, stifling, and quiet, it made quite a change from the Elmuthaleth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My face goes hot, and it has nothing to do with the stifling kitchen. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They worked covered with sweat in stifling enclosed cockpits in the summer. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I push myself to my elbows, stifling a moan. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Like a fox wailing in the nighttime!” exclaimed Balder, stifling his laughter. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Traveling through the diseased city, venturing into stifling alleyways, blacks began coming down with the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Condemn it because it sends down stifling darkness, sucks the life from grass, and whitens the sapling leaf for trifling, fluttering friends? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance over at Captain Smith and see that he is stifling a smile. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Toward the end of summer his busy schedule and the stifling heat caused his health to fail once again and reactivated his insomnia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The bus wasn't air-conditioned, and the hot, heavy air was almost as stifling as the handcuffs. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z They lay side by side, staring up at the ceiling, trying to catch their breath and stifling laughter. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It was stiflingly warm, and the fire that was burning under the crowded mantelpiece was giving off a heavy, sickly sort of perfume as it heated a large copper kettle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z She led us past a line of women having their hair set, across a stifling ghetto of hair dryers, and through a blue curtain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I whisper to my dog, stifling a cough. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z I fled down alleyways as dark and stifling as the gullets of dragons, through sizzling sparks and palls of smoke, under clotheslines fluttering with singed sheets. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For a while they felt faintly the sense of stifling which they had noticed when they first ventured into Fangorn, but it soon passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Pain rushes through my body in sharp bursts, but I try to ignore it, stifling a groan. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They sat in the car together with the windows down, the air warm and sticky but not stifling. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The throne seemed blocks away, and now the dress was stifling me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Day after stifling day, the coaches and crews sat in small, almost sullen groups, playing cards, reading pulp magazines, shooting the bull, choosing whom they went to the dining car with and whom they didn’t. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "Be quick," he says, and I do my best to look purposeful while stifling my pride over talking my way past them. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He bent to look and sprang back again, stifling a cry. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The stifling orders, pretending to be someone he’s not—Alex has always tried to be a refuge for Henry from it all. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Detroit, in the stifling summer of 1967, is bracing for race riots. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Giles, the make-up running on his face, poor fellow, and stifling in his Arab blanket, came up to me and said, “Come and watch the fireworks on the terrace.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z How did I know that someday—at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere—the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “How noble,” Mr. D said, stifling a yawn. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Buses idled their motors, filling the air with a stifling odor of exhaust fumes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That day passed much as the day before had gone, except that the silence seemed deeper; the air grew heavy, and it began to be stifling under the trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z On the morning of August 18, a stiflingly hot day even by Nashville standards, elected officials gathered at the statehouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The narrow, stifling galleries turned endlessly; he could not be sure whether they were making real progress or whether the tunnel was merely doubling back on itself. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z He also noted that the warm Indian summer weather and the press of a large number of people made the room stifling. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The heat pressed heavily on the roof, stifling sound. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The stifling hot air enveloped them as they walked to the bottom of the metal slab. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Goat’s children, shocked by what had happened to them, went off into the bushes, stifling their tears as they did so. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Together they climbed the ladder into the dim, stifling tower room. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He suggested to Garfield that his wife would have a speedier recovery in the cool sea breezes of New Jersey away from the stifling heat and humidity of Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I bury my face into Keav s chest, my arms tight around her waist, stifling a cry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly she was sweating, stifling an urge to vomit. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The stench of the sweating orcs about him was stifling, and he began to gasp with thirst. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Don’t let the door slap you in the butt on the way out,” she said, stifling a yawn. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The Mayweather is still cool outside, but inside this train car it is stifling. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The air grew hot and stifling, but it was not foul, and at times they felt currents of cooler air upon their faces, issuing from half-guessed openings in the walls. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Pressing down the faucet, cool water rushed against my hands, a welcome reprieve from the stifling heat. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Stella clamped her hand over her mouth, stifling her own snickers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Well, of course, Homer,” Mom replied, not entirely successful at stifling a laugh. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Nobody said anything for another minute after that, and the silence felt stifling, so Jinny opened her mouth to fill it up, and as usual, too many words tumbled out. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I know that in real life the bloomers on Mrs. Smeath are an intense indigo blue that took me weeks to get right, a blue that appears to radiate a dark and stifling light. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Radical educationists meanwhile complain that ghetto schools ‘oppress’ students by trying to mold them, stifling native characteristics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That had been escape—from the queen and his father and the Chrysopoesium and the stifling box that was his life. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The last few days in the Mud House had been almost unbearably stifling. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In the summer’s stifling heat, the room seemed airless and threatening. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She and her team put in full days at their tables and desks, breaking codes in the stifling heat. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the familiar leafy path down to the water’s edge, it was easy to imagine Peris stealing silently behind her, stifling laughter, ready for a night of spying on the new pretties. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They rode the subway out to Coney Island and found that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers had beaten them there, fleeing the stifling heat of Manhattan even in the middle of the workweek. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Curt asked, propped up by pillows, stifling laughter. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A queer stifling feeling came over them, as if the air were too thin or too scanty for breathing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She had ordered a roast for this evening and it would be too stifling to eat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We’re driving and it’s stifling hot outside, but the heater is on and the windows are up, and the radio is loud but tuned to the garble between stations. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It sat beside the river next to the mill, but the coolness of the Sogozha’s waters couldn’t make a dent in the stifling heat the forges inside breathed out. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When she had gone, all at once the hall seemed stifling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The room was large and stifling, and, though it was already four o'clock, opening the windows admitted only a gust of hot shrubbery from the Park. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The shed is stifling suddenly, hot and close, and I’m across the floor and out the door. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The feeling of being always enclosed in the stifling embrace of an invisible force had gone from him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He wore a long shirt to sleep even on stifling midsummer nights. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Miniature golf was ruined with a lengthy dissertation on impact, trajectory, and wind velocity, and our sand castles were critiqued with stifling lectures on the dynamics of the vaulted ceiling. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z As Metias opens the door and steps inside, I can see some girls out in the hall stifling smiles behind their hands. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They worked at night, in rain, in stifling heat. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was Sunday and an unusually warm evening for October eighth, so Daniel “Peg Leg” Sullivan left his stifling little house in the West Side of Chicago and went to visit neighbors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The train suddenly seems stifling and I’m definitely queasy now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The air in the dark burrow was stifling. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The night before had been stiflingly hot, and the early morning was already steaming and miserable. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z While others might find it stifling, I like the storybook quality intrinsic to village life. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was a stiflingly hot August day, and the apartment, a tenth the size of their house on Shogund Street, was sweltering. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z As I took a step back, the floor rolled beneath me, and the air grew denser, stifling. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His inner temperature monitor must be way off, because the lobby is stifling hot. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z This would take us beyond the Smokies—with its crowded shelters and stifling regulations—and put us back in a world where we could please ourselves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But what really recalled her to him at this moment was the stifling heat of the afternoon, which had brought the sweat out on his forehead. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Home, home—a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It transported him beyond the stifling world of the mansion. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And despite the heat and humidity, they were often forced to wear stifling head nets and gloves in order to protect themselves from the clouds of insects that hounded them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z New beads of sweat slicked Ekon’s neck, and it wasn’t from the small room’s stifling heat. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Even with so many interesting thoughts in her head, Penelope found herself stifling a yawn. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The weather remained stifling, as if taunting him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z After she leaves, I cover my hand over my mouth, stifling a scream. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The building was hot and stifling in the summer—and bitter cold in the winter. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I hover over the accept button, stifling my smile as I wait a few seconds to pick up, my fingers tapping away on the trackpad. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z In a very real sense, “America on Fire” chronicles how law enforcement became the nation’s main policy tool both for stemming urban unrest and for stifling Black demands for citizenship and dignity. Recasting ‘Riots’ as Black Rebellions 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z The sun was dazzling, the bright green water surprisingly warm, the wind and spray enough to cool us down so the wet suits felt pleasant instead of stifling. On Wisconsin Islands, a Warm Welcome and Brisk Waters 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But nostalgia is the keynote of this adaptation, and it proves stifling. Bagpuss ? review 2010-12-21T22:15:01Z “No one can say when the unwinding began,” he writes, “when the coil that held Americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip first gave way.” 6 Books to Help Understand Trump’s Win 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Her candy-striped sundress accommodated the stifling April weather, and she covered her inky black hair with a straw hat. Marina’s Music Was Caught Between Worlds. Now She’s Making Her Own. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z And what she's running away from is a fairly horrifying prospect: marriage in those circumstances would probably have meant the end of her career, which she loves, and a stifling life in the suburbs. Teen book club: interviews Lydia Syson! 2012-12-21T08:00:00Z It occludes the far subtler and more interesting insights that a genius can provoke, and too confidently pigeonholes an individual who knowingly rejected the stifling limitations of his country’s artificial racial binary for a dupe. Can 48 Artists in 14 Rooms Capture Michael Jackson? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z There were also no taxis at the port, so I started walking the half-mile or so into town in the stifling midday heat. The Delights and Challenges of French Guiana 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z To listen to Timothy MacBain’s latest Tomcast audio interview in which Van Buren discusses how Washington has changed when it comes to both leaking and stifling information, click here or download it to your iPod. Army tank made of cupcakes 2012-06-15T14:54:00Z One would almost think he had a vested interest in stifling debate and preserving the status quo. Noises off: Netizens of the world unite 2010-09-17T15:29:00Z Others praised his tilt at what they called stifling ritualism and alienating elitism in the concert hall. Cheers and Claps at Classical Performances 2012-06-08T21:33:37Z In The Professor, Depp plays a man who learns that he only has six months to live and subsequently disregards all of society’s stifling rules. Professor Johnny Depp says goodbye to the rules, hello to himself 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z On the stifling May morning that I visited, the scrubby forest was dry and radioactively bright, baked under a sky the color of a pilot flame. In Campeche, Pyramids Are Everywhere. Crowds Are Not 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z At the Chocolate Factory, where Ms. Green is the final artist to be presented this spring, space is limited, perhaps stifling the imagination of choreographers. Dance Review: Natalie Green at the Chocolate Factory 2013-05-31T21:30:23Z Because blockbuster films costs hundreds of millions to make, and are expected to gross hundreds of millions more in return, studios have a habit of stifling creativity in order to guarantee a bankable product. Gillan's great point about "Guardians of the Galaxy" 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z Divisions persist, stifling progress towards the European mainstream. Cyclists race through Sarajevo to mark WWI centenary, promote peace 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Amplified instruments gave Ms. Darboven’s stark Minimalist patterns an industrial edge; factor in the evening’s stifling heat, and the experience took on a hallucinatory intensity. Music Review: Eyvind Kang Presents His Eclectic Mix at the Stone 2013-07-03T20:39:35Z The film is composed with the utmost precision, and viewers will marvel at the rarified air, however stifling. Kristen Stewart stuns in the moody "Spencer," a gorgeous yet superficial biopic of Princess Di 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z It's time to throw off the stifling, cliched, banal covers of dark drama and step confidently into the light. Down with dark: why screen drama needs to lighten up 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z What Boyd does so well is communicate the stifling, breathtaking reality of what it means to exist in a world that treats you like an extraterrestrial. Bearing ‘The Weight’ of Feeling Alone 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Barthes’s film, unfortunately, is to its star what Charles’s household is to Emma: a stifling closet of propriety and good intentions. Review: ‘Madame Bovary’ Features Mia Wasikowska as a Notorious Adulteress 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The ubiquity of that violence and the fact that we have very few socially approved ways of talking about it, ways of thinking about it, is really stifling for a lot of women. "We all want to be the final girl": Sady Doyle on true crime, slasher films and surviving patriarchy 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The neediness and blunt self-expression that often attends her characters, Ms. Griffiths said, are qualities that she remembered stifling for years after her father abandoned the family, leading to her parents’ divorce. Rachel Griffiths Joining ?Other Desert Cities? 2011-10-09T02:57:18Z Legion’s strangeness might be stifling, but the 33-year-old has long specialised in disconcerting kooks. 'It's exhausting not being human' – the weird world of Legion's Aubrey Plaza 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z By 6 July, she started to regret her decision not to take one of the other courses at Harvard summer school and she felt trapped by a stifling negativity that threatened to consume her. Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' 2013-02-02T14:00:01Z He fled the stifling world of German literary celebrity and took a job with a New York publishing house, assembling an anthology of German literature. A Masterpiece That Requires Your Full Attention — and a Lot of Time 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z He's likably befuddled throughout, and he earns belly laughs whenever Aaron stops stifling his outrage and treats his relatives the way they treat Aaron -- as a figurative or literal punching bag. "Death at a Funeral": Crude, dumb -- and hilarious 2010-04-16T13:01:00Z Florence shows a woman stifling her creative urges to support those of the man she loves. The Best Video Games of 2018 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z But that very synchronicity is also its main problem, exerting a near-tyrannical hold on atmosphere and stifling the film’s ability to move. | 'Metropia': Dystopia Animated 2010-05-11T22:29:00Z After a day of stifling humidity, it had begun to rain: imagine a sticky shower of sweat. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z Ms. Beahrs’s choice of music does little to alleviate the stiflingly earnest mood. Dance Review: Suzanne Beahrs Presents a Rhythmic New Work, ‘Amid’ 2014-03-28T20:17:40Z We'd stop at vendors who were just far enough away from the subway station that we were no longer trapped in the hot, stifling throngs of people pushing their way to the street level. Looking for love and finding elote: A meditation on Mexican street corn 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z I thought marriage would be stifling, but with Paul it doesn’t feel that way. Collaborating in Their Artwork and in Life 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z That’s probably a sound course of action, but could such increased care end up stifling creativity – or impassioned political activism – in the industry? Was James Gunn the first undeserving victim of Hollywood’s new zero-tolerance policy? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Such a movement, with its unpatronising portrayal of working-class life, was clearly a reaction to the stifling conformity of the preceding period. Michael Billington on working-class theatre 2013-01-25T21:00:03Z And so, he doubled down on strict tailoring for his show, which was held in a stifling tent set up in the Tuileries Garden. Weirdness, Emotion, Provocation Mark Paris Men’s Wear 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z He’s accused of stifling free speech, and the event goes on. Review | Louise Penny’s latest mystery imagines a post-covid world. Things are still pretty complicated. 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z In stifling heat and humidity, Wanjiru broke the Olympic record by more than three minutes with a time of 2:06:32. Marathon updates: Running without Wanjiru 2011-10-09T12:00:00Z Stefan Zweig, Roth's compatriot and uneasy friend, describes in his autobiography the unpleasant and stifling state of relations between men and women in Austria-Hungary at that time. The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth – review 2013-01-25T20:00:01Z I’m fighting for creative freedom and battling against an antiquated way of thinking that is stifling a new form of artistic expression. My Chuck Close problem 2012-07-10T14:03:00Z Nine years of what has come to feel like stifling mediocrity. The Merman of Her Dreams 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But how do you cope when even your therapist abandons the stifling city? Weekend Miser 2011-07-28T23:10:45Z The interviews detail nightmarish scenarios: stifling heat, relentless storms and mass extinctions are soon to arrive, we’re told. Review: ‘How to Let Go of the World’ Ups the Ante on Climate Change 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z For them Clouzot represented what they called, not admiringly, the Tradition of Quality: the older filmmakers whose classical, relatively impersonal approach to cinema seemed to the new generation stifling and inhospitable. Henri-Georges Clouzot Retrospective at MoMA 2011-12-04T04:03:02Z The Web provides ready access to a gleaming digital surfeit of primary sources — no more trolling through moldering comics caches in dank basements and stifling storage units. How many lives does Catwoman have left? 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z There’s little psychological or sociocultural detail in the movie’s fastidious compositions, which fix Yana in shadow-flecked rooms and landscapes as stifling as they are gorgeous. ‘Beginning’ Review: Faith Under Attack 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Anna Akhmatova wrote: "You were an incomparable jester, / And gasped for breath between stifling walls." Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov – A Life in Letters and Diaries by JAE Curtis – review 2012-08-07T11:20:01Z In lesser hands, their love affair might offer a romantic resolution, an escape from a stifling past. ‘Tell,’ by Frances Itani 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The tone of Mirabella felt like a rejection of the stifling formality of Vogue. Remembering Grace Mirabella and Her Inventive Magazine 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z After a while, however, the set's relentless musical conservatism begins to feel stifling. The Staves – review 2012-11-20T17:50:02Z The name is a subversion of socialist realism, the stifling official style promoted in the communist east. Sigmar Polke obituary 2010-06-14T17:40:00Z Oshima was a brilliant satirist, provocateur and poet of the senses whose movies were elegant, angular weapons against stifling hypocrisy and confirmity. Nagisa Oshima: provocateur and poet 2013-01-15T17:37:26Z These lawsuits, in the states’ view, are stifling a critical debate about German history and, in particular, the role of Prinz von Preussen’s great-grandfather in the rise to power of the Nazis. His Ancestors Were German Kings. He Wants Their Treasures Back. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z We arrived at 11 a.m. and stepped from Mark’s air-conditioned SUV into stifling heat. In Utah, celebrating eight decades at five national parks 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Until now, he has not been able to travel to tournaments abroad — stifling his ability to reach his ultimate goal of becoming a Grandmaster. Nigerian chess prodigy, 12, granted asylum in the United States 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Sonja’s Copenhagen is a world of “glistening shoals of bikes,” proud xenophobia, of stifled sadness and stifling social conformity. A Darkly Comic Novel Stares Down a Life of Solitude 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z It makes viewers feel better when we can dismiss these partners as too dumb, too stifling, or as in the case of Bill Pullman’s Walter in “Sleepless in Seattle,” too hyperallergic and blah. Someday My Prince Will Leave Me for Someone More Low-Key 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z In the stifling, non-air-conditioned lecture halls of 1960s Singapore, where I was an underpaid university lecturer, one of the texts I taught was Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus.” Paul Theroux’s Travel Wish List 2013-01-11T19:49:59Z Last week, pop singer Ariana Grande pulled the plug on her Grammy night performance, accusing longtime telecast producer Ken Ehrlich of stifling her creative agency. Review | Childish Gambino won big at the Grammys — and he wasn’t even there 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z But the sequel has been far more interesting, as the royal couple and their expanding family leave the stifling shackles of the empire and carve a new life in, of all places, Hollywood. Meghan Markle "excites controversy" — Andrew Morton on the galvanizing power of the People's Duchess 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Military service is a series of stifling, quasi-domestic annoyances rather than a punishing, “Officer and a Gentleman”-like trial of suffering and maturation. Bored to Death in the I.D.F. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The intimacy of small-town life and its stifling limitations permeate “Picnic,” which the thoughtfully representative staging at Antaeus Theater Company underscores without telegraphing. William Inge's 'Picnic' finds the universal in a small Kansas town 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z There’s madness in the air at the stifling Massachusetts mansion they jointly inhabit, and it wants to get inside Lily’s brain, a process that Perkins represents with only the most minimal techniques. The 10 scariest Netflix original movies 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Yet as pretty as the hometown of Goethe and Schiller is, there’s something stifling about Weimar’s cobblestone Old Town, with its faux-medieval terrace restaurants full of retirees contentedly eating fruitcake. On the Bauhaus Trail in Germany 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Thankfully, a handful of linked stories provide much-needed space for expansion, offering a sense of psychological movement rather than continual, stifling return. These Short Story Debuts Are ‘Squirmy,’ ‘Virtuosic,’ ‘Claustrophobic’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The film is stiflingly reverent towards its source material, and indeed towards itself. On the Road – review 2012-10-11T14:30:02Z I also like her point that eating more vegetables and less meat liberated her from “from the stifling preoccupation with weight that plagues so many Americans”. “We’ve become a food culture” 2012-11-19T12:45:00Z A potentially stifling ambience is deflected by quiet suspense and the awe-inspiring compositions of the cinematographer, Clay Liford. | 'St. Nick': Portrait of Childhood 2011-04-22T04:43:01Z As films are shown after dark, one drawback is that they start rather late, particularly as the night only runs on Mondays and Sundays – expect to be stifling yawns in the office the next day. Cine-files: The Varsity Rooftop Cinema, Cambridge 2012-07-31T09:38:37Z Mr. Wolfe’s was also a silk-tweed that, as he soon discovered, was too bulky to wear through a stifling summer in Manhattan. Tom Wolfe’s Other Legacy 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps Baldwin left the church because he knew he would not have survived its stifling rigors, and had little desire to try. What the Church Meant for James Baldwin 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z I had the opposite problem, with stiflingly warm bars, cafes, restaurants and hotel rooms, and an excess of culinary choice ranging through McDonald's, KFC, Subway and assorted bakeries, Chinese buffets and Indian sit-in/carry-outs. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z The scenes in their hotel room are as stifling as those on the empty, titular beach. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z There, he reveals, in its bright open spaces and tranquil streets, the negative weight of an oppressive past, the virtual amber of stifling tradition. “Monrovia, Indiana,” Reviewed: Frederick Wiseman’s Anguished Study of Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z My naiveté protected me when I sat down to write at my small kitchen table and in that hot, stifling, first summer in Los Angeles began a short story collection. Essay by Viet Thanh Nguyen: On uselessness 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z But Park was not blind to the racism that runs through the books, particularly in the mother’s attitude toward Native Americans and her “stifling” sense of propriety. Linda Sue Park Rewrites ‘Little House on the Prairie’ with an Asian-American Heroine 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Nothing of the original pictures is visible, and compared to the rippling “Cage” series, these paintings are more abraded and pitted, done in a stifling palette of scarlet, green and black. The Sublime Farewell of Gerhard Richter, Master of Doubt 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z And driving with a top up in summertime is a stifling sensation.But fall is a different story. Chevrolet Camaro SS Convertible: Fast Fall Driving 2011-09-13T16:41:26Z Our aim was to create a near-contemporary setting that would open up opportunities for play among the characters without stifling them. Aiming for the stars in A Midsummer Night's Dream 2011-02-14T16:42:52Z An earlier book of his – You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto – argued that the was eroding human interaction, stifling creativity and changing us as people. Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z Those still alive inside the cars, stifling hot and crazed with thirst, drank one another’s urine, stripped off their clothes. ‘God Was on Vacation’: A Visit With a Long-Lost Cousin in Romania Is a Holocaust Lesson 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z It’s reinforced through censorship, through the absence of contrary ideas; and censorship also enables the use of force with impunity, suppressing reporting at home and stifling or frustrating it internationally. “One Child Nation,” Reviewed: A Powerful Investigation of a Chinese Policy’s Personal Toll 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Although its imagery is of nature and springtime, it feels a touch clammy and stifling. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel: The rebirth of a gothic masterpiece 2011-02-13T00:05:22Z The owners are nowhere to be seen; instead, their possessions — those eye-watering curtains, that alarming umbrella stand — tell us everything about the stifling respectability of their lives. Passport Photos and Online Porn: The Dizzying World of Thomas Ruff 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z What were we doing out there in the garden on what must have been a stiflingly hot afternoon in July? Slavery is America’s pre-existing condition 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z But for two weeks in September and October, this far-from-cutting-edge choreographer purged the Joyce Theater of its sometimes stifling air of safety. The Best Dance of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z You're stifling people, and eventually that causes other problems.The question really is, how do we define what is responsible? "Being busy all the time is not healthy": Ban.do founder wants to change the narrative about success 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The atmosphere is as stifling as you'd expect from an extended journey with a group of rowdy teenagers. Cannes 2012: The We and the I ? review 2012-05-18T14:52:56Z Like some monster or Egyptian mummy, we see him stifling with loneliness. Somewhere 2010-09-03T14:54:00Z The stifling temperature left Cariocas on edge, and barbed everyday exchanges with impatience. With the 2016 Summer Olympics just a year away, what Brazil can learn from World Cup 2014 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z “Suffs” has a hefty two-hour-and-45-minute running time, after all, and though the musical isn’t guilty of scolding, it is guilty of stifling an impressive — though exhausting — breadth of U.S. history through its contemporary lens. ‘Suffs’ Review: Young, Scrappy and Hungry for the Right to Vote 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z “Shipwreck” is wrapped in so many layers — of narrative, of interpretation, of mutating thoughts — that it should be stifling. Review: Blue State Blues Meet the Black of Night in a Thrilling ‘Shipwreck’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Yes, of course, he thought, freedom is stifling, constraint generative! A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Young paid the rent with his restaurant job; Hurley, meanwhile, shimmied through a hole in the ceiling into the stifling attic, where he reused Tetley tea bags. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z The pressure, however, can be stifling as women try to find a “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” level of just right when it comes to meeting personal and societal expectations. News that will shock exactly no woman: Female body confidence is at an all-time low 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But at the same time, it is a bit stifling. ‘No path is easy’: Black opera singers detail struggles 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z One of the more interesting production details about the 12th MCU film is that its original director, Edgar Wright, departed after he felt that Marvel Studios was stifling his individual creativity. MCU: The Franchise of the 2010s 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z This was a nightmarish week, with blood dripping into his arm all day long in a stifling little room. Memories of Mexico 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z A brief stint in indie band The Peasants followed, but the duo decided to go it alone after finding the seven-piece stifling. Broods: New Zealand's next pop export 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Just months after finishing her law degree in Scotland, she decided to learn Urdu, move to Lahore and bury herself beneath a mountain of files in a stifling room. Flowers from the muck 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z I was raised in a stifling and strict household. “Asian men in media are so desexualized”: Rising star Jake Choi fights the Hollywood odds against Asian American actors 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z How, she questioned, could America promote democracy abroad while stifling minorities at home? Ahead of her time 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z "Listening to her, I realised that in music, there is this ability to shake off those stifling ideas about what women are 'meant' to be." Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus on life after lo-fi 2011-04-07T21:29:00Z The two scrambled to scoop them up, with the help of passers-by who were plainly stifling laughter. ?SeeWatchLook?: Street Scenes at the High Line 2011-10-28T22:50:38Z Within a few years the stifling censorship of the theatre by the lord chamberlain had been abolished, and a gritty realism emerged in British cinema and drama. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z To Esther, madness is the descent of a stifling bell jar over her head. Review: ‘The Bell Jar,’ by Sylvia Plath 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There's that one shot where it seems simultaneously both welcoming and stifling, when Syracuse and Ondine come into the harbor aboard his boat. Colin Farrell's fairy tale ending 2010-05-02T18:01:00Z Enough of the policing, and small maps, and prescribed pursuit because it’s just taxing, stifling, boring. A frat boy’s “gay experience” 2014-04-21T00:00:00Z Like a great actor or composer, Allen could adapt her talent to suit a given subject without stifling her personality or her aesthetic. Dede Allen: The woman who turned film violence into poetry 2010-04-20T00:21:00Z Nearby in the stifling enclosure a table and chair waited for Baker to set up his laptop. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z While Hollywood used to signify a spectacular vulgarity, the influential American cinema now has a stifling and well-meaning tastefulness. The Best Movies of 2014 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z It was a stifling Sunday in 1950s South Central Los Angeles, when Cheech Marin, stuck at church, let his eyes drift to the ceiling. Cheech Marin’s Chicano Art Museum Is to Open This Fall 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z Well, it’s very healthy in many of its branches, and moribund in others, and stifled or stifling in others, which is always the case. 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 All she wanted was a change of scenery and the opportunity to grow after a stifling personal situation. What does 'living fully' mean? Welcome to the age of pseudo-profound nonsense 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Lemmons, Dash and Mabry maintain that sense of intimacy in their hours, even within courtroom scenes and backroom settings lit to accentuate the stifling air and actions unfolding within. "Women of the Movement," though imperfect, gives life to Emmett Till's story 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Instead, it’s growing cult audience revels in its occasionally stifling atmosphere of sour awkwardness and perplexity. Nathan For You: finding the comedy in awkward commercialism 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He concedes that emancipatory movements freed people from the stifling grip of convention. ‘Dedicated’ Makes the Case for Choosing Something and Sticking With It 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z The article included an interview with Adams’s ex-girlfriend, the musician Phoebe Bridgers, who described his behavior as stifling, domineering, and frightening. Ryan Adams and the Perils of the Rock-Genius Myth 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z But all those involved reject monogamy as stifling, or oppressive, or simply not to their taste. All you need is loves: the truth about polyamory 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The set's furious pace and stifling humidity eventually overcame drummer Gabe Serbian, who took a break from his duties mid-set to vomit several times, then returned to pound the kit with more ferocity than ever. Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z J Edgar comes closer to getting things the right way round, positing a woolly psychological theory about the link between Hoover's creation of the FBI state apparatus and his stifling relationship with his mother. Cloclo sends its cultural superhero on the same old personal journey 2012-06-20T13:11:52Z But once ensconced in Cavendish Square, where she's very much on trial with her fiance's grandfather and great-aunt, she's appalled by the stifling tyranny of upper-class life. Trelawny of the Wells - review 2013-02-27T00:47:00Z It is hard to imagine any of the central characters of “Follies,” immured in their stifling marriages, concurring with the notion that “No One Is Alone,” a culminating sentiment expressed in “Into the Woods.” Books of The Times: ?Look, I Made a Hat,? Stephen Sondheim Lyrics - Review 2011-12-08T23:09:14Z Burton’s suspenseful historical novel tells of a young woman’s struggle against stifling domestic life in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Books to Watch Out For: August 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z If we police boundaries too strictly, we’re stifling the possibility of cross-fertilisation and invention. Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs: loving homage to Japan or cultural appropriation? 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Regardless of the romantic spell they cast, houses with historic good looks can be stifling to decorate. Bruce Budd Redecorates Houston Mansion 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z In the movie, a poor family living in a stifling semi-basement home uses subterfuge to get various jobs from — and feed off — a rich family in Seoul. Oscar for ‘Parasite’ Quenches Koreans’ Long Thirst for Recognition 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z And that’s a shame, because creating simple games is one of the best ways to demonstrate that computers and software are really all about unleashing creativity, not stifling it. Video Game Review: Allowing Players to Assume the Ultimate Role: Game Creators 2011-01-28T23:48:47Z At 15, he became the youngest ever UK DMC Mixing Championships finalist, before realising that the world of competitive turntablism was stifling his creative urges. Hudson Mohawke: beats, rhymes and lasers 2011-08-12T23:11:01Z They redefined the canon to include then-disreputable American genre pictures, created characters who articulated their own passions and opinions, and illustrated that the tried-and-true techniques of professional filmmaking were stifling and unnecessary. 9 Great Godard Films to Stream Now 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The story of a young African-American man from the South Side of Chicago, trapped by the stigma and the stifling conditions of racism, has in fact lent itself to film dramatization more than once. A ‘Native Son’ Reimagined, With James Baldwin in Mind 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z In Grace’s stifling house, the electricity is dicey and the internet nonexistent. Review: Bright Young Men Stoop to Scam in ‘Nigerian Prince’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Jean’s days revolve around her work at the paper, where she is treated as “one of the chaps,” and the care of her disagreeable, stiflingly needy mother. An Investigation Into a Virgin Birth Upends Lives in This Sly English Novel 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Free improvising, a small room, standard instruments, stifling heat. Music Review: Darius Jones, Ryan Sawyer and Shahzad Ismaily at the Stone 2012-07-04T21:38:09Z I was already stifling a yawn as I headed to the theater for the first two shows of Broadway’s fall season. Star-Crossed (and –Blessed) Revivals: Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams 2013-10-02T09:45:54Z After a week of stifling heat, the somewhat milder temperatures on Sunday night made the air seem almost balmy in comparison. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble at MoMA’s Summergarden 2012-07-09T22:28:41Z In the interview Ms. Astanova said she saw herself as a rebel, rejecting the competition circuit as stifling and intent on following her own path. Lola Astanova, Julie Andrews and Donald Trump at Carnegie 2012-01-18T23:05:33Z She misses New York City and her psychology PhD program, and her Connecticut mansion and the security of her marriage to her "nice guy," banker husband seem stifling. From "Sex/Life" to "Kevin," TV offers new answers to whether women can “have it all” 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z This ballet company works hard to achieve artistry on multiple levels, then keeps stifling its own fulfillment by blunders of artistic taste. Critic?s Notebook: Injuries and Triumphs Color a Ballet Season 2011-07-10T22:01:07Z Of course, freeing her children from what she describes as the stifling imprint of ultra-Orthodoxy is exactly what Haart embraces as her mission. Netflix Series Stirs Debate About the Lives of Ultra-Orthodox Women 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, Kenyan film makers had urged authorities to revamp a 1960s law that imposes restrictions they say are stifling their resurgent industry. Lesbian love movie director sues Kenya to lift ban on film 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Yet an interesting enough story is bubbling away beneath its stiflingly safe surface. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z He’s at something of a disadvantage, in that his show arrives while Americans divide their attentions between the stifling pandemic and the nationwide eruption of state-sponsored violence against protesters. Crash landing: Space Force is not the Trump satire we need right now 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z He, like Galassi, separates from his wife in late middle age after years of stifling his gay desires. Love and Scandal, Buried for Years at an Elite Boarding School 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z It happens, perversely, on “Talk Is Cheap,” a carpe-diem anthem on which Mr. Jackson seems to be stifling a yawn. New Music: New Releases From the Beach Boys and Alan Jackson 2012-06-04T22:19:12Z And in so doing, Dolly realizes the problem is not her, but her unsatisfying marriage, which is stifling her own ambitions and desire. As Bollywood Evolves, Women Find Deeper Roles 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z In one stunning sequence, the princess tries to flee this stifling world so rapidly that she outruns her outer clothes and the landscape around her blurs into single brush strokes. In 'Princess Kaguya,' a wondrous parable about what matters 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z All four doors were missing, bench seats unbolted, leaned against the wall of the tenement as a place to sit and escape the stifling summer heat that hugged the street like a soggy gray blanket. In 70s New York on the Lower East Side, fire fighters weren't a city service, they were a godsend 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z The club was stifling, standing room only for the hundred and seventy-five people—twenty-five of them friends—who formed the crowd. Doug Stanhope, Miles from Where the Action Is 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z After her arrest, Arcay disappears from the movie, and Pierre finds himself living unhappily in luxurious but stifling new circumstances. Review: ‘Don’t Call Me Son’ Considers Identity and Fluidity 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z But it is easier if you have escaped the stifling of the academy. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The standards of lifelong monogamy are so stifling — and silly. Coming out to my wife 2013-02-19T01:00:00Z It isn’t bossy or controlling or stifling her voice; it is developmentally appropriate. Perspective | No, offering choices is not the silver bullet for toddler behavior problems 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z In the wake of the outbreak, officials from the academy are in contact with congressional staffers to discuss how to increase oversight without stifling traditional pharmacy practices, Miller added. Compounding the meningitis outbreak 2012-10-11T22:21:00Z But I felt starved for affection, and was stifling a longing for him to hold and kiss me again. The Man in Xinjiang: A Frightening Experience in Rural China 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Through it all, Pearl grapples with stifling social and domestic expectations and with her irrepressible hunger for freedom, fame and erotic release. ‘Pearl’ Review: A Farmer’s Daughter Moves Up the Food Chain 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z You see, I rebelled against the coercive and stifling religion into which I was born and bred. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z "Each called itself revolutionary, promised to deliver universal equity, by force if necessary; then, as it approached the apogee of its power, gave way either to stifling conformity or exultant sectarianism." Shooting Angels by Christopher Hope ? review 2011-08-26T21:55:01Z But the show’s classic sitcom format, with recorded laughter and pauses between punch lines, is stifling — too much like “The George Lopez Show” and not tailored enough to Ms. Alonzo’s own brand of humor. ‘Jane the Virgin’ on CW and ‘Cristela’ on ABC 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Though this movie portrays how stifling a marriage of convenience is, it doesn't offer the freewheeling bohemian concept of romance as any type of solution. Five movies to cure you of Valentine's Day 2011-02-14T21:37:00Z The journey consists of a series of adventures in the broiling temperatures, culminating in a stifling encounter that could be the cinematic equivalent of prickly heat. The 10 hottest, sweatiest, most humid summer movies ever made 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z But Rice has an authentic center, knows that if she ran for office “every compromise and stifling and self-suppression to be performed would … devour her with shame.” A Comic Novel About the George W. Bush No One Knows 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z But the most revealing film of that time, about the stifling influence of work and the evolving mores of masculinity, has to be Office Space. Office Space at 20: how the comedy spoke to an anxious workplace 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Chekhov’s characters cavort in dachas, while Beckett’s take up residence in trash cans — but they all feel the stifling dread and purposelessness of existence. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Seismic passion and the escape from stifling propreity are the themes of a Terence Davies movie. The Long Day Closes: The Passion of Terence Davies 2012-03-23T22:27:48Z With mentioning specifics, he portrayed himself as a target of “the outrage machine” and a left-wing social media “mob” bent on stifling his free speech. Why can’t Fox apologize? It won’t back down even amid Pirro, Carlson controversies 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Will the result enable O'Connor to move beyond her stifling reputation? Sinead O'Connor's 'I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss' takes the lead 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Such safety soon feels stifling and, when combined with numerous production problems, turns exasperating long before the show’s end. Theater Review: ‘Dancing on Nails,’ Set in a 1950s Store, Opens at Theater 80 2013-07-25T02:00:01Z Terry and June's stifling urban setting was peopled with toady underlings sucking up to their bombastic, half-moon-spectacled boss. How TV portrays office culture 2012-10-09T19:00:04Z If the show's second season continues in this direction, the contrast between its insulated storytelling bubble and the actual English soccer could become deeply, stiflingly uncomfortable. The contrast between real-life soccer racism and "Ted Lasso" is impossible to ignore 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Of course, with laws that forbid even calling the war a war, and blocks on social media platforms like Facebook and on independent media outlets, the government is stifling creative expression at its root. Russian Artists Lose the Tools of Their Trades as Companies Pull Out 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z But more than 30 former staff members interviewed by The Times described a stifling corporate culture that has left many women feeling pushed aside. At the Super Bowl, Nostalgia’s the Only Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It was late June, and the room was stifling. How I ended up in a pyramid scheme 2013-05-23T00:00:00Z What once was comforting and needed is now stifling and prescriptive, and this quick shift can lead to power struggles and defiance. Perspective | Our 5-year-old won’t listen, and we’re stuck 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “Go vote for taking care of yourself and having joy in rejection of society’s stifling norms,” the website urged. The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Wilson, of True/False, was “categorically not in favor,” he said, because he felt it would be stifling to filmmakers. Documentary Film Festivals Feel Push on Accuracy 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z A native of Kassel, he hoped to provoke Germans with forms of international modern art after the stifling Nazi era. In a first, German art exhibition documenta opens in Athens 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The stifling ordinariness of small-town existence — one sister likens herself to a “firefly stuck in a mayonnaise jar” — is what the characters chafe at most. Sad and Haunted Girls Who Couldn?t Play Worth a Lick 2011-05-22T00:45:25Z Even when it’s trying to be clever it’s stifling. Fuller House: Tanner family nostalgia doesn't make redundant sitcom better 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z This flop sweat is as pervasive and stifling as the swamp where our lead characters find themselves. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z I was home by afternoon, surrounded now by buildings instead of trees, back in the stifling midsummer heat. T Magazine: Fly Zone 2011-03-21T14:00:14Z Yet none of these tools has any nourishing use, since the colossal wing is imprisoned within stifling gloominess away from the life-sustaining sun. '@Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz' a powerful meditation on repression 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z But he’s alert to the resonances between the past and present, from law enforcement stifling dissent in the name of “national security” to populist mobs shouting it down with lies and violence. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z And there is no doubt that in the brutally repressive, creatively stifling period of Soviet history in which Yakobson lived and worked, he was an artist of rare courage and astonishing self-belief. Review: ‘Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia’ 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z In June he went to the consulate in Berlin for a work visa for the Met job and was forced, he said, to stand for hours in a stifling room with 50 other visa applicants. Director Says He Left Met Production in Visa Spat 2010-09-03T22:21:00Z She’s not just dealing with her complicated family issues: getting pregnant at 16 and running away from her wealthy, stifling parents. The ‘Gilmore Girls’ revival is far from perfect. Luckily for Netflix, fans won’t care. 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “There is a moral imperative imposed on how to interpret organ music. There is a fussiness that is lamentable and stifling.” Freeing the pipe organ from the usual grind 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Accetturo sounded a little more serious when he accused social media platforms of making money off content creators, then randomly stifling them. Hundreds of people have filed to run for president in 2020. Meet a few of them. 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z But Mira’s most complicated relationship is with her father, who introduces her to the beauty and mystery of the world, and whose love she both cherished and found stifling. Sheila Heti Is Still Asking Questions 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Away from the stifling airlessness of summer, I once again have more energy. Nigel Slater: ‘I love the crackle of winter’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z I wasn’t quite ready to return to the real world and the stifling 100-degree heat. She finally got to the Southwest’s most-photographed slot canyon. And it left her speechless. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The copy machine hadn’t worked for weeks, and in the stifling Delta heat the air conditioning system barely functioned. The real forgotten Americans: School-to-prison pipelines, poverty and crime down south 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The “stifling proximity” is her partial explanation for why the marriage so famously imploded — Hughes went off with another woman and Plath, left to fend for two small children, killed herself. In New Volume of Sylvia Plath’s Letters, a Marriage Falters and Masks Fall Away 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Lopez fretted about the region’s future, but concluded that “in behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.” Barry Lopez Travels to the Ends of the Earth, Seeking Glimmers of Hope 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Doughty observes the hot, stifling humiliation of the holding cells beneath the Old Bailey, where defendants sit sweating in numbered plastic bibs. Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty – review 2013-06-08T08:31:01Z Mr. Stone, “stifling the urge to stand up and start preaching from the legerdemain section,” instead decides to flash her an “innocent altar boy look.” Books of The Times: ‘Fooling Houdini’ by Alex Stone 2012-06-20T20:11:57Z Through the strength of her performance, the emotions – grief, anger, confusion – are so tangible, it's stifling. The Killing star Michelle Forbes: why I avoided watching Forbrydelsen 2011-07-15T23:05:00Z The Immigrant becomes a stifling opera of unhappiness, at an oppressive andante tempo, trudging onwards through its own heavy weather. Cannes 2013: The Immigrant 2013-05-24T11:28:37Z But its creative output appears to be hobbled by the same structural problems that led to the two fiascos – which is to say, too many layers of stifling yet ineffectual middle management. The best television of 2012: Andrew Anthony's choice 2012-12-15T22:00:05Z His cell was a stifling, three-sided concrete vault, big enough to take a few strides up and back. Death row teens: He’d committed a vicious murder at 16, but was he really incapable of change? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z "I mean, I am who I am, but I've kept a part of me muted, and it's been stifling." A racist slur, a groundbreaking coming out and country music’s future hanging in the balance 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z The series is full of similarly subversive cultural material designed to infiltrate the country's stifling isolationism. Planning for the future: how design students got serious 2010-07-13T13:18:00Z “No one can say when the unwinding began,” Mr. Packer writes, “when the coil that held Americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip first gave way.” Books of The Times: ‘The Unwinding,’ by George Packer 2013-05-28T21:18:55Z "Looking to Africa briefly," he suggested, stifling a laugh at the crazy pace. In Our Time | Radio review 2010-03-26T06:45:00Z For months the two men had lived with the troops, sharing the same food, the same stifling quarters, and the same long stretches of boredom punctuated by moments of adrenaline-fueled terror. Sebastian Junger reflects on friendship, war and peace 2011-06-09T22:27:00Z Halfway through two years of research in the sprawling, aesthetically bleak, politically and socially stifling capital of Saudi Arabia, the French academic, currently at NYU Abu Dhabi, found himself feeling profoundly tufshan. Fast and furious 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z On their face, the videos are stiflingly boring. A whisper, then tingles, then 87 million YouTube views: Meet the star of ASMR 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Yet Lloyd himself is on board with the notion that his assertively contemporary stagings pare back stifling layers of performance history to lay bare what’s underneath. A Director Making His Mark in More Ways Than One 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z But these moments get lost in the movie’s stiflingly rigid yet bloated three-hour span. Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Ada’s psychological tumult is captured in intimate close-ups and fluttering camera movements, while the absence of a score complements the film’s uneasy mood of pent-up rage and stifling despair. ‘Unclenching the Fists’ Review: The Cost of Freedom 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z The family customs so prized by the queen were, it seems, stifling to her daughter-in-law. A look inside Sandringham House, site of the royals’ annual holiday retreat 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z He still sees literature and film as liberating alternatives to stifling interpretations of religion. Is the Arab world ready for a reading revolution? 2010-04-16T10:19:00Z The Kabakovs’ best-known works portray the stifling atmosphere of the Soviet Union and evoke the universal human quest for a better life. Coast of Utopia 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z From the stifling Theatre Arena to the root-strewn outdoor auditorium, performances erupt from ice cream vans or mysterious woodland booths, and spill into unexpected happenings and chance encounters across the site. Latitude theatre review: marquees and mash-ups 2013-07-22T16:41:20Z It, too, is full of archival material, well deployed to make clear just how stifling the environment was for a very long time and how bold the women were who broke through. Review: CNN’s ‘History of Comedy’ Has Good Timing 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z "Sitting inside a stifling tank, she appears to grasp the horror, if not of war, then of the experience of fighting one," said the Guardian. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z His project is a species of meta-art, which skeptically reflects on kinds of art that in their time promised liberation from stifling aesthetic and social conventions. Art in Review: PATRICK HILL: ?Clumsy Angels? 2011-01-27T22:53:38Z Rather, it’s Lawrence’s women, drawn with a capacious, conflicted sympathy that recognizes how frustrating it is for a keen-minded person to try to carve satisfaction from a stifling domestic world. ‘The Daughter-in-Law’ Review: Sons and Wives 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z When the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed that work at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, the voices were soft yet pungently permeating, redolent of a silent, stifling room of sleeping men. When the Orchestra Is the Star of the Opera 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z If you’ve ever noticed that a muggy 85-degree day feels more stifling than an arid 100-degree day, you know that humid air is far more efficient at transferring heat than dry air. No-Knead Bread, Revisited 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Despite its size, it wasn’t a draw until the 1960s, when air-conditioning made the idea of building accommodations in the stifling region less unthinkable. Exploring Modern Ruins in Southern California 2014-03-19T21:24:02Z Now, amid a stifling lockdown, I felt drawn into the nighttime quiet. A guide to urban stargazing: What you need to start exploring the skies close to home 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z But it was only after listening to the stories of the first generation born into this policy that I heard the truth of their parents’ stifling overprotection. China’s little emperors – the children without siblings 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z I felt as if I were wrapped in an electric blanket, a great sensation when I was outside, but a little stifling back in the office. Power Suits Take On New Meaning 2010-12-17T23:46:37Z Muritiba delves into her stifling home life and religious upbringing, giving the online catfish a human face. ‘Private Desert’ Review: Into the Valley of Repression 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Another reason for taking on the role of the war-weary Crusader Behmen was a change of scenery from the stifling Louisiana interiors of Bad Lieutenant. Hard-working Nicolas Cage stars in Crusade thriller 2011-01-04T12:06:07Z It's a world where stifling bureaucracy coexists with covert spivvery, as shown by the black-marketeer who wants to dismantle the bath and secretly ship it to Italy. The Roman Bath 2010-05-04T20:30:00Z B-boying is also an escape from the strict conservative culture and intense educational system that many Koreans find stifling and stressful. Seoul’s Bumping B-Boy Scene 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z For almost four hours their lonely, depressing lives are slowly woven together against the backdrop of a stifling society and an indifferent world and. What’s on TV Monday: ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’ on Criterion and a PBS Documentary 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Despite what initially felt like a stifling, monotone place, this is a vast world created by Ferrante. ‘My Brilliant Friend’: A Fairy Tale of Youth Gives Way to Messy Adolescence 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z One discomfort is the gulf between the stiflingly white New York art world and multicultural Brooklyn. The Next Steps for the Brooklyn Museum 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z That saying is a reminder of the reason proper etiquette as we know it to be can feel stifling. Making etiquette for everyone again – despite, or because of, its weaponization 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z But cooperation on such issues, including environmental, social and governance topics, known as E.S.G., can be interpreted as crossing the line into an illegal collaboration and stifling competition, analysts said. When Does Collaboration Become Collusion? 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z By contrast, she films the royals in their palace with a rigid and stifling frontal symmetry, and she makes much of the cultural contrast between the two realms. A Great Ballerina’s Explosive Movie Performance 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z And yet, then as now, the most striking aspect of Styron's book is just how close it gets to describing the stifling horrors of the illness. Illuminating depression 2011-03-07T12:10:36Z The form-fitting new costumes — less billowy than the old, but still in the same red, black and white color scheme — only intensified that air of restraint, as did the stifling heat in the Armory. Review: ‘Available Light’ Takes Over an Armory at Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z But on return visits, I noticed a leaden self-importance that began to feel stifling. Lowlife Plays It Cool on the Lower East Side 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z In James Dacre's profoundly moving production it strikes me as one of the best plays ever about the first world war: less stiflingly class-conscious, for instance, than RC Sherriff's Journey's End. The Accrington Pals – review 2013-01-22T12:14:09Z Ms. Pace usually spends summers in Southampton, working as a nanny and escaping the stifling heat. This Is the Summer the Youth Own New York 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z The set, designed by Matt Saunders, rises to less than half the height of the proscenium, so it weighs heavily on the characters and conveys a vivid sense of the work’s stifling atmosphere. The Operas ‘Facing Goya’ and ‘Katya Kabanova,’ at Spoleto 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The apartment is rather claustrophobic, but there is a stifling, oppressive atmosphere throughout the film, which is very effective. In "Farewell Amor," separated immigrants reunite 17 years later for an imperfect American dream 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z The UES widow of an illustrious novelist goes to Italy and meets a father and son, only to move in with them downtown when her stifling townhouse gets to be too much. Review | 22 books about Manhattan jet-setters that will make you feel like one 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Unable to bear the rigors of child labor and a stifling orthodox home, Ezekiel runs away. Alice Hoffman’s novel of freak shows, fires and true love 2014-02-12T20:12:11Z The education system in Taiwan was a bit stifling and I wasn’t the best student in the classroom. For These Designers, Mom Knew Best 2011-05-06T23:14:50Z Dependent upon abolitionist charity for his family’s daily bread, Douglass nonetheless chafed under a stifling Garrisonian orthodoxy that required adherents to embrace pacifism and abstain from politics. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z I really think that not stifling that imagination at an early age broadens their horizons later in life. Look for big lake trout lurking in Lake Chelan 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Initially, the style is stifling, giving the sense that the wallpaper might matter more than the plot. ‘Strawberry Mansion’ Review: Adventures in Slumberland 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z On Friday, Mr. McGill and a small group will sleep — or try to sleep — in the house’s stifling attic, reachable up the steep, twisting “slave stairs,” as they are known in manor lore. Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z With a poetic libretto and mercurial score, its ideas shift in and out of focus, slippery and only suggested: the ephemerality of inspiration; the stifling frustration of doubt; the ecstasy of cultivating beauty. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The air conditioning struggles to counteract the stifling humidity. 'She’s good, but she’s big': my years as a 'fat' ballerina 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Those identified are covered with a white sheet, while those unknown are left exposed as flies buzz constantly in Cambodia's stifling heat. Cambodian stampede: Phnom Penh counts the cost of water festival disaster 2010-11-23T07:48:00Z When the boat docks within striking distance of her stifling group home, she sneaks away to climb aboard. ‘The Sea Beast’ Review: Of Monsters and Men 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Qaddafi seized power in 1969 as a young colonel, then held it by stifling dissent, playing Libya’s tribes against one another and ruining whatever independent institutions once existed. Why Libya Continues to Burn 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z But this is expected to be the last day -- for this week anyway -- of stifling heat and humidity before thunderstorms and cooler temperatures sweep into the area. T-storm watches, warnings at end of hot day 2011-08-02T23:05:00Z Somehow, Coney Island loses its sense of fun and feels stifling. Screens (and Titles) Full of ‘Wonder’ 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Irene has slipped up to a whites-only rooftop to escape the stifling heat; passing, to her, is a tool of convenience, not a way of life. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Faulkner added central heating in the 1930s but scorned air conditioning, despite summer temperatures that reach the 90s and stifling humidity. Miss. hometown marks half century post-Faulkner 2012-07-04T17:16:04Z Advances in genetics and neuroscience promise to liberate the social sciences from a stifling orthodoxy that denies the differences between people by insisting that we are blank slates, our potential impeded only by our environments. Charles Murray Returns, Nodding to Caution but Still Courting Controversy 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z So why do I feel a whiff of nostalgia for the stifling nightmares of Southfork, for Sue Ellen swilling liquor and slurring her words, for J. R. chuckling malevolently at his little brother? Riff: When ‘Dallas’ Was the Capital of America 2012-06-02T04:00:06Z Who wants a lifelong companion so stiflingly unworldly – a de facto nincompoop, an eternal child? Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z Season 5 of "The Crown" is the "Charles and Diana" season, chronicling the end of their marriage and Diana's emergence as the rebellious defector from a system bent on stifling her. "Last Week Tonight" slams the monarchy in a way that may change how we see "The Crown" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Throughout history, women have survived the stifling strictures of patriarchy by using their own codes of communication — be it intergenerational secrets, whisper networks or gestures legible only to other women. ‘Hidden Letters’ Review: Sororal Secrets 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The stranger, the more stifling, the world depicted, the more the contours of ours no longer chafe. Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z One of his last stops was a stifling recovery room where three men were lying in their beds, watching a small TV. Ukraine’s Biggest Rock Star Doesn’t Want to Go Back Into Politics—Yet 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z This kind of thing is easy to mock, and there are certainly passages here that seem so clenched and arid and joyless that stifling a snigger is difficult. The Knife: Shaking the Habitual – review 2013-04-04T14:30:01Z The film was shot on location in the Dominican Republic’s Najayo and La Victoria prisons, where the stifling claustrophobia of those settings infuses every frame. Review: ‘Woodpeckers,’ a Tale of Love and Agonizing Penal Confinement 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z And you may also, after stifling your yawns, hope that the next time you see Naomi Watts it’s in a movie that plays to her strengths and doesn’t treat her or the audience so contemptuously. Review: In ‘The Book of Henry,’ a Little Child Shall, Well, You Know 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Critics say the new laws are stifling free expression and pulling the country backward. Russian Artists Face a Choice: Censor Themselves, or Else 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z But this is a looser, funkier show than its inspiration, puncturing the occasionally stifling solemnity of “The Walking Dead” with good old-fashioned B-movie gags and thrills. Stream These 7 Movies and Shows Before They Leave Netflix in January 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z As the heat of the Texan evening subsides from unbearable to merely stifling, a young woman in towering heels strolls past with a piglet on a leash. Snack to the future: foraging in Texas for the next big food sensation 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z To start with, as Elaine Blair points out in her New Yorker piece, failure due to sexism and stifling social conventions is hardly a laughing matter. I Love Dick on television marks the rise of the female loser 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Like Emily, Henry and the regiment have to take matters into their own hands to safeguard their right to remain alive under a stifling patriarchy. A salute to "Dickinson" and its devotion to using notoriety to spotlight other unsung histories 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z The stifling influence of religion in enforcing sex-negative beliefs had abated somewhat, but doctors and scientists were picking up the slack. “The rape-your-wife privilege”: The horrifying modern legal history of marital rape 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z As a small child, the restrictions and obsessions of the faith only upset me through incidents such as the Christmas party, endless church services and the stifling Sundays. Sunday blues: Growing up in an ultra-strict church 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z But then it’s back to the stylized gloom with “One Last Night,” a stifling minor-key ditty by the aptly named Vaults. 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Soundtrack has one thing on its mind 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Again, he will do battle with a culture of stifling uniformity. Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Certainly Gleeson's Sam doesn't care much about that, given the homicidal urges he's stifling. It's "difficult to curb his impulses": "The Patient" star Domnhall Gleeson on a killer in therapy 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Baker, who before “Star Wars” worked as a circus performer and was part of a comedy troupe called the Minitones, endured stifling temperatures to squeeze himself inside the droid costume. Kenny Baker, who played ‘Star Wars’ droid R2-D2, dies at 81 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z And yet, the book takes her back to that former life: “White Elephant” seems to channel all of the frustrations she felt juggling her identities as a mother and creator in a stifling suburb. Review | A local author turns suburban drama into smart satire 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Xi is considered the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong, after a decade of consolidating power in policy-making and the military, and stifling media freedoms. Biden calls Xi a dictator after carefully planned summit 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z “That was just such a personal attack, to attack where my parents were raised,” she said, stifling tears. ‘It’s just heartbreaking.’ For Palestinian American businesses, a time of harassment — and support 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Sitting deep and defending in numbers, the Clarets succeeded in stifling Arsenal's attack for the majority of the first half and could even have opened the scoring themselves. Arsenal go second with victory over Burnley 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z North Korea has said the U.S.-led sanctions against it are stifling its economy, calling them proof of U.S. hostility against the country. China supported sanctions on North Korea’s nuclear program. It’s also behind their failure 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z But this is no general screed; Sinclair’s stormy father, brilliant but perpetually stoned mother and fiercely loyal siblings leap off the page, as does the island in all its vegetal, stifling richness. 18 best nonfiction books for fans of Madonna, memoirs or cultural histories 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Today inflation is again rearing its head and cholera has spread across all of the country's 10 provinces, mainly affecting children, often left unsupervised in the stifling heat as their parents try to work. Zimbabwe's cholera crisis fuelled by chronic water shortages 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z But economists say wider reforms are needed to address long-term problems that are stifling growth. Chinese factory activity contracts in October as pandemic recovery falters 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z By the following summer, family members said, Khadu talked about the boat’s stifling heat, and the presence of mold and rodents that chewed through his food containers. Last operating US prison ship, a grim vestige of mass incarceration, set to close in NYC 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z García cut down Christian Walker at the plate with a stellar throw from right field in the second, stifling some early Arizona momentum. Seager stars with 2-run HR, stellar defense to lead Rangers over D-backs 3-1 in World Series Game 3 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z On Saturday, the sixth-year senior quarterback was visibly sick — with glassy eyes and a scratchy throat, stifling an occasional cough. Commentary: For No. 5 Huskies, one-dimensional dominance is no longer enough 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z “There was a big defensive focus on stifling them, staying in the game, just trying to frustrate them,” Pinnock said. Brentford beats Chelsea 2-0 to win at Stamford Bridge for 3rd straight season in Premier League 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z A week later in Mumbai, Buttler made the same call against South Africa in the stifling heat, conditions Root later described as "like eating the air". 'A mess from the start - now England's World Cup is over' 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The Glasgow Kelvin officers accused Scottish Labour of "stifling democracy" after a motion calling for an end to military action was ruled out of order. Scottish Labour leader Sarwar says Israel 'breaking international law' in Gaza 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z What particularly warms Carroll’s heart is that the Seahawks are once again stifling the run after being embarrassingly bad in that area last year — 30th out of 32 teams with 150 yards allowed per game. Why the Seahawks have a defense that can make Pete Carroll proud again 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z The Browns have a stifling defense as evidenced by their upset of San Francisco last Sunday. NFL Week 7 picks: Will Chargers upset Chiefs? Can Dolphins beat Eagles on the road? 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z People die in stifling homes, apartments and trailers they can’t afford to air-condition. A fall heat wave is hitting California. How to prepare, and when it will end 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z A stifling cash squeeze saw it join a growing list of Chinese developers struggling to stay afloat under a mountain of debt. Country Garden founder Yeung, the tycoon who called himself 'dumb' 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Offense is really struggling, and that could provide some big opportunities for a Rams defense that can be stifling. NFL roundtable: Can Rams make run behind offense? Impending Chargers doom in K.C.? 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z A year later, the band signed to Motown Records, but found the label's production line approach stifling. The Isley Brothers founder Rudolph Isley dies at 84 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z India's blueprint of stifling the runs through the middle overs through spin, bookended by menacing spells from their pace bowlers did the trick. Kohli inspires India to victory over Australia 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z But as he prepares for a re-election bid in December, rights groups, international allies and rivals accuse his administration of stifling dissent just as previous government's did while he was in opposition. Congo presidency's rights record raises questions ahead of vote 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Department of Justice accuses Google of using similar agreements to lock out rival search engines such as Bing and Yahoo, stifling innovation. Apple leverages idea of switching to Bing to pry more money out of Google, Microsoft exec says 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Adding to its woes, Evergrande's offshore debt restructuring plan, the key to its survival amid a stifling cash crunch, looks set to falter and the prospects of the firm being liquidated are gathering momentum. Pressure on China Evergrande intensifies; chairman under police watch, risk of liquidation 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z Yet as more travelers take stock of changing weather patterns, they will likely adjust their schedules to avoid stifling summer heat. How climate change could affect where and when people travel 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z But others believe it has had the opposite effect, stifling competition in a state where buying media advertising across half a dozen markets comes at a huge, prohibitive cost. Donald Trump, skipping GOP debate, eyes California delegate sweep in the state he loves to hate 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Most of Africa has logged a lifetime of independence — roughly 60 years — and the continent of more than 1.3 billion people is more conscious of the challenges stifling its development. At UN, African leaders say enough is enough: They must be partnered with, not sidelined 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z It was a break from what had been sometimes stiflingly tight French security during the visit so far. King finally gets to meet the crowds in Bordeaux 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z But the jingoistic ultimatum is cast as being stiflingly conventional — at least as conventional as any Main Street standards and norms. Review: In his rapturous MoMA retrospective, L.A. artist Ed Ruscha gives New York School art a witty blow 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The Singapore Grand Prix is known for its heat and stifling humidity, causing drivers to lose significant weight by sweating as they drive. F1 drivers ready for the heat and humidity in Singapore, where their drinking water is like hot tea 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The No. 12 Utes relied on their trademark stifling defense to pave the way to victories over Florida and Baylor ahead of Saturday’s contest against Weber State. No. 12 Utah’s defensive line still dominant while battling injuries 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Israel and Egypt have maintained a stifling blockade on the territory since the Hamas takeover, in a measure that Israel says is needed to keep Hamas from arming. Powerful explosion kills 4 Palestinians in Gaza. Israel says the blast was caused by mishandled bomb 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z The stifling heat of the Royal Albert Hall failed to dampen the spirits of eager Prommers, who celebrated the festivals' Last Night in typical style. Last night of the Proms: Sweltering heat fails to dampen the audience's spirits 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z Ireland opened their Rugby World Cup campaign with a bonus-point win as they scored 12 tries to overwhelm Romania in stifling heat in Bordeaux. Ireland begin World Cup with 12-try win over Romania 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z That month, a stifling heat dome settled over the Southwest and pushed temperatures in Phoenix to 110 degrees or hotter for a record 31 days straight. Poll: California should do more to respond to extreme heat waves, voters say 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z And even as Modi touts democratic principles abroad, critics accuse his Hindu nationalist government of stifling dissent, stoking religious violence and weakening independent institutions at home. India’s rising geopolitical clout will be tested as it hosts the G20 summit 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z But it played into criticism from Republicans and the energy sector that his environmental agenda is inflating costs by stifling domestic production. Biden cancels all oil, gas drilling leases in Alaskan Arctic wildlife refuge 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z The resumed dialogue comes a month after China lifted a stifling 3-year-old tariff on Australian barley — in a strong sign of the improving bilateral trade relationship since Australia’s government changed. Delegation of Australian ministers to visit China in further sign of improving ties 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The heat has been stifling for many Texans, but deadly for some of those making their way through the hot, barren shrub land where migrants travel to avoid detection from Border Patrol agents. Scorching Heat Is Contributing to Migrant Deaths 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Thailand's punitive defamation laws have long been criticised for stifling free speech. Thammakaset: Thai poultry farmer loses his 36th defamation suit 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z The heat has been stifling, but only an occasional breeze has allowed for extreme scoring. Morikawa breaks Tiger’s 36-hole mark at East Lake and shares Tour Championship lead with Hovland 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z In contrast, Southern summers can be grueling, with scorching temperatures and stifling humidity. S’mores brownies with homemade marshmallow? A perfect summertime treat 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z At least 41 people have died in stifling, uncooled prisons of either heart-related or unknown causes during Texas' relentless and record-breaking heat wave this summer, according to a Texas Tribune analysis. “It’s too freaking hot”: Dozens die in Texas prisons with no air conditioning amid record heat wave 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The stifling heat in Texas overwhelmed people taking part in orientation for new students at Prairie View A&M University, 48 miles northwest of Houston. Sweltering temperatures bring misery to large portion of central U.S., setting some heat records 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z At Croydon Boxpark in London, hundreds of supporters began the morning hopeful as they crammed into the stiflingly hot fan venue. Women's World Cup: Fans proud of England's Lionesses after defeat to Spain 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Policymakers and industry leaders must work together to remove regulatory barriers — including the patchwork application of inconsistent building standards — that are presently stifling its growth. Here's the type of building that could ease the housing crisis | Op-Ed 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z China's largest property developer, and falls in home prices and sales have added to worries that the property sector crisis is stifling what little momentum China's economy has left. China cenbank says it will keep policy 'precise, forceful' to aid recovery 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The university’s seizure “represents further erosion of democratic norms and a stifling of civic space by Ortega-Murillo,” U.S. Nicaraguan government seizes highly regarded university from Jesuits 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z On a recent stifling summer day, Asra, 14, was going through the alphabet with her younger siblings. Afghans dreaming of U.S. refuge feel stuck in processing limbo 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Sweden has won here with a stifling defense and an opportunistic offense that has scored more than half of its goals off set pieces or penalty kicks. World Cup: Women's soccer will soon crown a new queen after Sweden beats Japan 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The missing element in California’s rules is coverage for indoor workers, such as those employed in vast inland warehouses that often have no cooling equipment other than fans, which merely move the stifling heat around. Column: Workers are keeling over from extreme heat while Big Business battles safety regulations 2023-08-10T04:00:00Z Filming has not yet begun on the third season of the series and is likely to be delayed given the dual actors’ and writers’ strikes currently stifling Hollywood. Angus Cloud honored with in memoriam card on streaming episodes of 'Euphoria' 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z It comes on the heels of a monthslong intimidation campaign by Pakistan’s powerful military, which was aimed at hollowing out Khan’s political party and stifling his comeback. Monday Briefing: Khan Arrested in Pakistan 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Employees said they are forced to work in stifling temperatures of high 80s and mid-90s because the store’s air conditioning system has been malfunctioning since last September. A Northridge Cinnabon banned Pride flags. Now the workers are striking 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z They board a train on the Polish-Ukrainian border on an afternoon of stifling heat. Ukraine war: Family reunited 18 months after tearful goodbye on Platform 5 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z She said the delays were slowing down vital investment in recycling infrastructure and "stifling councils improving their services". Bin collection: Tories accused of political delay to recycling reforms 2023-07-31T04:00:00Z "All in all, the labor market remained strong in the second quarter, defying the drag from stiflingly high interest rates," Pantheon Macroeconomics' chief economist for Latin America, Andres Abadia, said. Brazil's jobless rate hits lowest since 2014 for a quarter through June 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z The tents stand close together on concrete sidewalks, and seem to increase the stifling heat from the encampment called “The Zone.” Homeless struggle to stay safe from record high temperatures in blistering Phoenix 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z But as climate change intensifies stifling heat waves, and the dryness that fuels the wildfires, it is also raising longer-term questions for Greece’s economy and the people who live there. Greek Hotels Fear a Burning Future: ‘Even the Animals Are Moving Away’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z As Sharif puts his son's pain into words, Amir nods off in the stifling heat, cradled in his arms. Yemen: The children of a forgotten war 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z It was a cruel way for China to lose after stifling the Danes with its disciplined defense. Vangsgaard scores 90th-minute winner as Denmark defeats China 1-0 at Women’s World Cup 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Kim grew up in Seoul but after a work-study stint in Canada and traveling through South America, she returned home and found life in South Korea stifling. She’s a Smash Hit in Latin America, Even if Her Korean Mom Disapproves 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z He believed that high temperatures stifling France and baking much of Southern Europe contributed to his wife’s health scare. Medical personnel called as Brigitte Bardot has breathing issue in St. Tropez heat 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z In a stifling Beijing, U.S. climate envoy John Kerry began the third day of talks with Chinese officials, expressing hope that cooperation to combat global warming could redefine troubled ties between the two superpowers. Record heat wave grips China as flood toll rises in South Korea 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z The last time she talked with him, just hours before his death on June 28, the 36-year-old, who had asthma, complained about not being able to breathe in his cell’s stifling air. Texas heat wave has inmates’ families worried about lack of air conditioning in state’s prisons 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z She said the criticism, even after her clarification, “seems actually directed towards stifling any legitimate criticisms of the Netanyahu government and its policies.” U.S. Rep. Jayapal says blowback from calling Israel a 'racist state' reveals 'double standard' 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z Monday was scorching hot and the air felt stifling and oppressive. Heatwave: BBC correspondents on how people are coping 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The timeline could create difficult conditions for some people as more storms and stifling heat were expected in Kansas and Missouri early this week, according to the National Weather Service. Floods wash away children, scorching heat envelops West as wildfire smoke overtakes northern U.S. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z “Our courts are the last line of defense against an administrative state that rules by fiat, legislates from the bench, stifling freedom and truth.” Ramaswamy Looks to Supreme Court in Effort to Appeal to Conservatives 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z The hill becomes particularly stifling due to its altitude and lack of shade. Cerberus heatwave forces Athens to close Acropolis, wildfires hit Croatia 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z On the morning I visited, patrons of all ages and races came in and out and lingered in a shaded patio despite the already stifling heat. Column: Baristas in Redlands lost their jobs. Now, they co-own their shop 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Cambodian courts are widely believed to be under Hun Sen’s influence, and pro-democracy groups have regularly criticized his government for stifling any opposition. UN expert group calls for release of Cambodian-American human rights activist after investigation 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z “The effect is to disperse non-Republican voters among several districts, diluting their electoral strength and stifling their contrary viewpoints,” their attorneys argue in court documents. Utah Supreme Court hears partisan gerrymandering challenge to congressional districts 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z The CCC says the ban is another example of how President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is suppressing and stifling opposition ahead of elections on Aug. 23. Zimbabwe’s main opposition party goes to court to challenge a police decision to ban its rally 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z The investigation into Ant came after its founder and billionaire entrepreneur, Jack Ma, publicly criticized Chinese regulators in 2020 for stifling innovation and being overly cautious. China Hits Ant Group with $985 Million Fine 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Another stifling heat wave is expected to hit Southern California next week, with forecasters warning it will likely be hotter and last longer than the Fourth of July weekend spike in temperatures. Here we go again: 'Intense heat wave' expected next week across Southern California 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Sir Keir is expected to warn the "class ceiling" is stifling opportunity for too many children across the country. Labour leader pledges education reforms to break class barriers 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z This week China continued to experience an enduring heatwave with temperatures in some places above 35C, while the southern US has also been subject to stifling conditions. Climate change: World's hottest day since records began 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Blasting the air conditioning to counteract stifling heat can provide much-needed relief this summer, but the utility bills that follow might not be as pleasant. Kimberly Palmer: Creative ways to cut your energy costs this summer 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, the stifling humidity was set to persist along the Gulf of Mexico, maintaining hazardous and sweltering conditions even as temperatures began to drop a few degrees. An Early Heat Wave Upsets the Rhythm of Life in the South 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z In early June, a federal grand jury indicted former President Donald Trump on 37 felony counts related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving office and stifling the government’s efforts to repossess them. How have prosecutions of foreign leaders turned out? It’s complicated | Op-Ed 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Amid a deepening political and energy crisis in Cuba, González cast blame on decades of American sanctions stifling the island’s economy as the root of many of Cuba’s problems, echoing many in the government. Elián González two decades on: From focus of international tug-of-war to member of Cuba’s congress 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z So it goes in Texas, where a surge in solar power generation is helping the state’s primary grid operator navigate an ongoing and stifling heat wave. Solar Power Bails Out Texas Grid during Major Heat Wave 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z At the same time, Congress in 2004 prevented the FAA from issuing safety regulations protecting space tourists for fear of stifling innovation. Titanic sub disaster shines spotlight on ethics of adventure travel 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z The idea of a similar “stupid hiker law” is a regularly debated item in Arizona as well, with so many unprepared people needing to be rescued in stifling triple-digit heat. When wealthy adventurers take huge risks, who should foot the bill for rescue attempts? 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z The crowds made it feel hotter, stifling any airflow. Ambitious Saudi plans to ramp up Hajj could face challenges from climate change 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Human rights groups have expressed wariness over the Biden administration’s embrace of Mr. Modi, whose strongly Hindu nationalist government is often accused of stifling dissent in India, and discriminating against India’s Muslims and other minorities. India’s Modi praises U.S. democracy in address to Congress 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z But the stifling heat is a sign of what the state can expect going forward, he said. Solar Power Bails Out Texas Grid during Major Heat Wave 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z To avoid stifling innovation, lawmakers exempted R&D before an AI system is released for public use. News at a glance: Biggest lightning storm, regulating AI, and restoring Europe’s ecosystems 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Kohnen said in the interview that Rush, OceanGate’s CEO, called him after reading the letter and told him that industry regulations were stifling innovation. OceanGate was warned of potential for ‘catastrophic’ problems with Titanic mission 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Kohnen said in the interview that Mr. Rush, OceanGate’s chief executive, called him after reading the letter and told him that industry regulations were stifling innovation. OceanGate was warned of potential for ‘catastrophic’ problems with Titanic mission. 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Human rights groups and political opponents have accused Modi of stifling dissent and introducing divisive policies that discriminate against Muslims and other minorities. Biden is ready to fete India’s leader, looking past Modi’s human rights record and ties to Russia 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z “It isn’t about stifling individuality, but fostering respect and comfort for all.” Could a flying dress code make for more polite passengers? 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Governments around the world are now trying to find a balance whereby they can assess and rein in some of the potential negative consequences of AI without stifling innovation. UK must seize opportunities of AI to remain a tech capital, Sunak says 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z At home, however, where the building’s decrepit condition goes unattended, it’s reality with an expiration date, which has created an atmosphere of stifling pressure. Review: 'White Building' bids beautifully sad farewell to a vanishing Phnom Penh 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Without working ceiling fans and air conditioning, rooms turn stiflingly hot in Khartoum’s baking May weather, and the lack of power makes sterilising equipment difficult. Special Report: Dozens of babies die in orphanage as Sudan war takes grim toll on Khartoum 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Opposition parties and rights watchdogs have long accused Vucic and the SNS of autocracy, stifling media freedoms, violence against political opponents, corruption and ties with organised crime. Serbia's President Vucic offers resignation as head of ruling party 2023-05-27T04:00:00Z This is a different kind of prison escape picture, focusing on the stifling confines of a life devoid of possibility. Review: New doc 'Bama Rush' takes a wider look at sorority life in the age of TikTok 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The U.K. watchdog found that Meta’s purchase of Giphy would hurt social media users and advertisers by stifling competition for animated images. Meta sells Giphy for $53M to Shutterstock after UK blocked GIF platform purchase 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Despite Tibet's rapid economic development in recent years, China is often accused of stifling religious and cultural freedoms in a predominantly Buddhist region, an accusation which Beijing rejects. China's Xi calls for 'new socialist Tibet' - Xinhua 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z |
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