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In my view we in this country are too stuffy about religion; we are not innovative enough.
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Tradition is misunderstood everywhere and, therefore, misrepresented as something stuffy, sterile and primitive, a useless relic from a bygone era.
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He suggested that this country, since the war, had suffered from the continuation of too many stuffy attitudes.
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We are not as "stuffy" as all that.
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They were a breath of fresh air and brought democratic reality into that somewhat stuffy institution.
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He simply dominated the nation's political landscape, and he personified the new era, not stuffy or hidebound but classless, forward-looking, modern.
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Poultry covered the floor; the shed was dark, stuffy and overcrowded.
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The air in the tubes is stuffy—ask any of those engaged there.
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Is this not rather a silly and stuffy attitude to take?
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No one can accuse it of being stuffy.
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You find them in a stuffy office with 40,000, 50,000, or 100,000 words before them.
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If management are stuffy, rule-book based, old-fashioned, inflexible and uncommunicative, it is little surprise that the work force mirror those attitudes?
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I must say that my noble friend is being terribly stuffy again.
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Such would be less likely to induce drunkenness than the present stuffy bars where men have to stand, and where all they can do is to drink.
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To use the stuffy language of 100 years ago, he sought to adopt as his guiding principle that superior persons should not impose their will on inferior persons.
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No special stuffy has been made.
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The room is fearfully stuffy.
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The very words sound mysterious, stuffy and threatening.
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Let us consider the status, the responsibility, the unsocial hours, the working conditions and the hardships to which we are subjected daily in these crowded, stuffy quarters.
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They seem to have different personalities, one is dramatic and stuffy, the other is grumpy and cynical.
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He was also perceived as being stuffy and proper.
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When patients are sick, and surrounded by medical equipment and white walls, the last thing they need is a dark, stuffy room.
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The characters ridicule the trite, foolish and stuffy scenes they are forced to perform as part of the novel.
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I think people like to know that he's a regular fellow, not a stuffy aristocrat that wants to stay behind closed doors in air conditioning.
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Etiquette writers assert that etiquette rules, rather than being stuffy or classist, serve to make life more pleasant.
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Yoo-jin has the most difficulty with the stuffy institute life.
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The most common side effects for losartan are upper respiratory infections or stuffy nose, dizziness, and back pain.
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Unfortunately, this resulted in hot and stuffy rides.
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Despite his strength, the majority of his allies find him stuffy and boring.
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Many of his television parts were as a stuffy, middle class buffoon, with a stiff upper lip, and he is known for deadpan drollery.
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He is learned, even erudite, but never ("ever") stuffy or pedantic.
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Hence, because they are not a daily outfit for most men, they are often viewed as being stuffy and uncomfortable.
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The team also had to endure heat and stuffy conditions, especially during the scene in which the family shared steamboat in the living room.
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He often portrayed roles as a stuffy defender of the upper class and had regular roles on a number of television series.
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Most people have a continual stuffy nose or sinus problems, and a few people have dramatic, incurable motion sickness.
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Common symptoms of rhinitis are a stuffy nose, runny nose, and post-nasal drip.
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The inflammation results in the generation of large amounts of mucus, commonly producing a runny nose, as well as a stuffy nose and post-nasal drip.
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She is fed up with the stuffy conventions that surround her and with the hyperactive talk of the men in her life.
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The caves are stuffy and the heat and humidity are intolerable.
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Inflammation of this tissue may cause significant impairment of daily activities such as-stuffy nose, headache, mouth breathing etc.
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Refreshed by the love session, the married woman makes bold overtures to her stuffy husband.
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Burial alive is described as a stuffy death.
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He was never stuffy, or bashful, and indeed he cultivated a charming informality of manner.
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She reunites with him as he offers her his companionship as a diversion from her stuffy life.
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Speaking with a stuffy upper-class accent, he is something of an intellectual, but has a tendency to complain or bore others.
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The models most commonly used have a vent in the roof that may be opened by passengers if the atmosphere inside the marshrutka becomes too stuffy.
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Not at all pretentious and not at all stuffy.
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There was an irreverence, a lightness of touch as well as a literary voice that had been obscured in later years when the magazine became more celebrated and stuffy.
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Yes, but in such a way that it is non-stuffy.
Linguistically it means that a stuffy top-down school subject meshes with bottom-up youth culture, a productive synergy for individual and societal foreign language competence.
Not stuffy or arrogant, as so many teenagers are.
They, in turn, were often depicted as outdated and stuffy.
A corporate publication produced on behalf of a distinguished client won't want to appear flash, but nor will it want to risk seeming stuffy and behind the times.
After stuffier viewers became outraged at the idea of the unwed couple moving in together, the producers decided that they should get married instead.
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On many railways they are even better than the first-class carriages, because they are not so stuffy, velvety, and upholstered with the same uncomfortable opulence.
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In one case, you often have to sit in a stuffy room, while in the other you get out into the country air.
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There is a rather stuffy and sedate lion peering out from the back of her skirts.
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I hope that it will be radical and that we shall not be stuffy about responding to its recommendations.
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Such people have been used before on public agencies, and they would run a stuffy and over-interventionist authority.
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Above all, they maintain that they are not an old stuffy lot of resisters to change but consider themselves young, bold and adventurous.
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The price of the tickets for a quite extraordinarily uncomfortable seat on a bench in a quite remarkably stuffy atmosphere was one shilling and ninepence.
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I do not think that it is stuffy or boring to tell young people to watch it.
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