At first glance he seemed like such a stuffy person, even cantankerous at times. |
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The new arrival with an irreverent approach to the stuffy conventions and personnel of Parliament made an immediate impression. |
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Honestly, nothing but a group of old, stuffy men gathering to talk about things they talk about every other day of the year. |
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Alternatively, if the opening speaker is dry, stuffy, boring, or pompous, it gives every other speaker less momentum to work with. |
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The writer of this article is a professor, wrapped up in the stuffy world of academia. |
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Her children are grown, and want her to marry some old, boring, stuffy man who talks about his aches and pains a lot. |
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The Countryside Party could bring a breath of fresh, country air into the stuffy world of British politics. |
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The train is not full because, due to the delays, it is now past rush hour but the carriage I sit in is uncomfortably hot and stuffy. |
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They and their patrons reinvented the art of promotion and hype in part by attacking good taste and the stuffy elitism of the art world. |
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Like Diana, he seemed to represent a revolt against a stuffy and inexpressive establishment. |
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Cork's attack was toothless that day and, in a game that was stuffy for long enough, Tipperary's eight-point victory was comprehensive. |
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The subway froze in its tracks, and thousands of people found themselves trapped in stuffy box cars and pitch-dark tunnels. |
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He certainly doesn't bring to mind the stuffy polo and shooting image of British royalty at play. |
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He lacks the adventurousness of others known for similar roles, appearing stuffy, staid, and stoic by comparison. |
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After a cold dinner of egg sandwiches by candlelight we turned in early to our stuffy, airless rooms at 9.30 pm, exhausted. |
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By contrast the house was stuffy and airless and I repaired to my garden chair, Dolly and Harry following on behind. |
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The most violent sequence in the film has him interrogating one of the kidnappers in a stuffy car. |
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We sought refuge in the comfort of pipes, nursery food, big fat armchairs in stuffy, overheated rooms and low-risk jobs for life. |
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Uncluttered and spacious, the overall design suggests modern refinement and glamour rather than stuffy tradition. |
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You might have a stuffy or runny nose because of a cold, the flu or seasonal allergies. |
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They are regarded as less stuffy than the august Royal Scottish Academy, and pride themselves on encouraging new art. |
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At first, in honor of the august occasion, he felt obliged to sound stuffy and learned. |
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But the two acclaimed performances of classical ballet and contemporary dance I saw were anything but stuffy. |
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When I first laid eyes on the city of Ancona it was from the back of a hot, stuffy train, where I was awkwardly crammed into a second-class seat. |
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If you're looking for good food minus a stuffy atmosphere, Cafe 1 will see you right. |
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Living with his stuffy parents again gives him the beezer idea of hunting down his former schoolmates. |
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The Usher Hall, normally so Edwardian, upright and slightly stuffy, slips off its tiara and shakes down to something a bit more comfortable. |
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Since the room was stuffy and muggy without the air conditioner running all the time, just turning the thing off wasn't an option. |
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Are they stuffy boardroom types or trendy hipsters in skinny jeans and scruffy beards? |
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The menu is Scottish with French influences, while the decor and atmosphere are smart without being stuffy. |
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Common symptoms include an itchy, runny, sneezy, or stuffy nose and itchy eyes. |
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After a long walk back to Piccadilly Circus and a stuffy train journey home during which I dozed off, I was glad of a soak in a cool, deep bath. |
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In approaching such an artist, one could be forgiven for sniffing the air for a tinge of stuffy curatorial purism or poker-faced pedantry. |
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The bar was stuffy, bright and full of the mixed odors of beer, smoke, and unwashed bodies. |
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I find that the brightness of jazz lifts people's spirit, getting away from the stuffy old hymns of the last century or two. |
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When I told her the name of the backpacker hostel, where I had a stuffy room with a broken fan, she immediately suggested we go there. |
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The hotel is a Victorian mansion that is grand without being stuffy, and it has one of the best chefs in Scotland. |
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A progressive art teacher shakes up a stuffy private school in 50s America. |
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An awful stench filled the stuffy air of the wet alleyway, which permeated my nostrils. |
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I'm not stereotyping you as a stuffy, stuck-up, arrogant noble or anything. |
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As Derek quickly entered my room, I felt the cool breeze enter behind him, bringing with it welcome fresh air into my stuffy room. |
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Cortleno opened the window by the door, admitting a warm breeze into the stuffy room. |
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The room was stuffy and hot, despite the chilly wind howling and moaning outside. |
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She rapped the solid oak door three times, before turning the golden handle and entering the stuffy room. |
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When I had finally gotten out of the stuffy room a large mess and a broom, dustpan and garbage bin were waiting for me. |
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Kelvin didn't talk to those whom he shared this stuffy room with, neither did they talk much to him. |
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This is different from those stuffy rooms in other restaurants, compartments here have a big round window in each wall and large straw curtains. |
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Bathrooms tend to be quite stuffy places, where even the hint of a bad smell will linger. |
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She couldn't wait to get out of that stuffy room she had been in for what seemed like an eternity. |
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Me and Simone were in a corner of the stuffy room, warily glancing at all the models as if they were about to attack. |
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Number two, I don't know why you'd wish to spend your birthday in a small, stuffy room like this one when you could be up in the fresh, cool air. |
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I need better headphones for this stuff since mine's are like obscure foreign language classes way back in stuffy rooms. |
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In a crowded, stuffy room, overhead fans strained to circulate the inert air. |
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The first symptoms of a cold are often a tickle in the throat, a runny or stuffy nose, and sneezing. |
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Friends describe Ojjeh as funny, intelligent and chatty, who brings a breath of fresh air into the stuffy world of French politics. |
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Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois. |
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In the opinion of these writers, sleepers in stuffy rooms were slowly suffocating in a toxic fog of their own breath, sweat, and flatulence. |
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It gives you a warm body and cool head rather than the stuffy heat provided by radiators or other forms of convected or warm air heating. |
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They will be traveling by iron horse, sending a message to the many tribes that they are not stuffy, wealthy, and aristocratic New Englanders. |
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Theory discussions continued over coffee in the poolside bar, which really did beat a stuffy, centrally heated room back home. |
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Paul, as the outsider, with his British accent, is a breath of fresh air and glamour that upsets the balance in the stuffy little town. |
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Gone forever was the dark and gloomy look, to say nothing of slippery floors and stuffy odours. |
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The air was stuffy and there was an unbearable stench of blood and putrefaction. |
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Unlike the stuffy, overpriced hotel restaurants of yesteryear, the new dining options can stand up to the best epicurean eateries. |
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When you've got a stuffy nose, you put some hot water and a couple of drops of the medicine that comes with it into the inhaler. |
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I had a huge head ach and my nose was stuffy, I might be complaining but all I wanted to do was sleep. |
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For most people, cold and flu season means suffering the temporary annoyances of a stuffy nose, a sore throat or a bad cough. |
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Eucalyptus oil is excellent for clearing a stuffy nose and for relieving muscular pain. |
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According to the manufacturer, the most commonly reported side effects are headache, flushing, and stuffy or runny nose. |
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Does anyone in the family have frequent headaches, fevers, itchy watery eyes, a stuffy nose, dry throat, or a cough? |
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She sniffled, since her nose was stuffy now, and she laid down on the mattress that Chad had pointed out for her. |
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The flu may cause fever, cough, sore throat, a runny nose or a stuffy nose, headache, muscle aches, and tiredness. |
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Side-effects with these treatments tend to be minor and include headaches, nausea, indigestion and a stuffy nose. |
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Chocolate candy might not taste as good if you have a cold and a stuffy nose. |
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Kitchen gardeners are very often thought of as stuffy people, patiently planting seeds into precise rows and endlessly digging. |
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My book has been translated into German and yet the audience crammed in a stuffy room at the British Council offices are flicking through the English language edition. |
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This former sleepy, stuffy tavern has banished stained beer mats, pork scratchings and dusty dead flower arrangements and is now welcoming, modern and plush. |
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It's such a fascinating world and as soon as people can stop thinking of the Victorians as stuffy moralists then they can see that they were very sensual and rich. |
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In a stuffy room on the third floor of an ageing hotel behind an ice cream parlour in a smart Lahore suburb yesterday sat the men who threaten to bring Pakistan to its knees. |
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It is a fellow wine-lover who enthusiastically wants you to try something they have found, rather than a supercilious guardian of stuffy good taste. |
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It's ever so close in the lounge, dear, clammy, muggy, stuffy, humid, hot. |
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Ask your child's doctor about ways to treat the symptoms that are making your child uncomfortable, such as a stuffy nose or scratchy throat, without the use of antibiotics. |
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Sometimes Iwai lets the words remain superimposed over the proceeding images, but never enough to push the film into the stuffy vocabulary of multimedia. |
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The room is stuffy so I take off my jacket and place it on my chair. |
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The channel was stuffy and hotter than the outside, with about an inch of water along the bottom flowing down from the gutters and following the slight slant of the tunnel. |
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In the stuffy room, its walls lined with fussy little ornaments, but no photos of family or friends, I nestled into my brother and promptly fell asleep as only a child can do. |
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She sits in a dark, stuffy room, only vaguely aware of her surroundings. |
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But my stuffy academic friends each have their own store of knowledge. |
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What was originally intended as a reprisal against the stuffy, airless academicism of government-approved filmmaking is now becoming mired in its own set of cliches. |
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Whatever approach you take, when you're feeling even slightly queasy, the fresh air and steadier view on deck is preferable to being down below in a damp, stuffy cabin. |
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The style is stuffy, the syntax is antique, and the conceit is never really convincing. |
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I didn't need these stuffy preppy clothes contaminating my car. |
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I didn't like being in the house with all those stuffy people, especially because they frowned upon my style and that I didn't want to be part of the elite. |
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A slightly frazzled, middle-aged woman greets me at the door and leads me through to a stuffy lounge, where her mother sits propped in a chair, glassy-eyed. |
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The bureaucratic spirit pertains rather to stuffy Confucians, who foolishly imagine that the way to fulfill human potential is through service in officialdom. |
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With the air-conditioning switched off, it was becoming hot and stuffy in the confined cabin space, and only there did I really begin to feel the dread hand of fear. |
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Shortly after that, the first currents of liberation theology emerged in Latin America and the U.S., making neo-orthodoxy seem stuffy, provincial and oppressive. |
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The cigarette dangled from the corner of her red-smudged lips, its burnt and ashy tip sending up thin trails of smoke into the already stuffy air. |
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Mark looked out on the Senate chamber surrounding him and watched as the countless delegates and their entourages made haste to leave the stuffy Senate chamber. |
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He expresses loathing for its stuffy, class-ridden collegiate atmosphere, and incomprehension for the very British phenomenon of inverted snobbery. |
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Libraries are not silent, stuffy places where the staff are ogres, they are places for the whole community and we want as many people as possible to come here. |
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Yesterday, the media were supposed to be focused on the stuffy royal luncheon at Buckingham Palace. |
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DeLaney recommended that she give up all wheat and dairy, in case her stuffy nose was caused by allergies to those foods, and forgo the beer she drank daily after work. |
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If you just have a stuffy nose or sore throat, you have the green light to work out, although you may want to avoid the gym out of consideration for others. |
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Performance artist Marina Abramovic turned a stuffy museum gala on its head with human centerpieces and a violent finale. |
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One should be on watch for any soreness in the throat, a stuffy nose or congested chest because they are the early symptoms of the onset of disease. |
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Seeing the carrots made her realise how hungry she had become during the preparations for the journey, and she walked rather stiltedly out of the hot, stuffy kitchen. |
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It was stuffy and confined, muggy and stagnant, thick and oppressive. |
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Although expected, the stench of mothballs nearly knocked us all senseless as we entered the small, stuffy hall which only grew smaller as we all piled in with our bags. |
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For a portable and convenient inhalant put one drop each of the same oils on a tissue or handkerchief and inhale whenever needed to ease laboured breathing and a stuffy nose. |
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Then you just have a bunch of stuffy people, made even stuffier by their uncomfortable clothes, wandering around and lying about what a good time they are having. |
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It was one of those exhaustingly stuffy days, I remember well, where you feel like the sun is angry and everything looks bleached in the harsh light. |
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Is this another stuffy book by a disconnected reggae academic? |
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In particular, people had remarkably stuffy ideas about sexual behaviour. |
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Nineties financial high-fliers are ditching stuffy pinstripe suits and stiff upper lips to become more fashionable. |
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The ceremony is always too stuffy, unless it is way too silly. |
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The summer term had been busy and stuffy, and to a Rugby player there were few attractions in punts among lilied backwaters. |
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Some stuffy royalists will say it just goes to show how the monarchy and command performances have dived down market. |
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Perhaps it is a class thing. Pan loafy people can also be very stuffy and toffee nosed and hence arrogant. |
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We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons. |
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The more intense your workout, the faster and higher your core temperature rises, meaning you can feel even sweatier in stuffy environments. |
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Instead of the usual stuffy black-tie awards event, this was a major funfest where stars dressed up but let their guard down. |
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This form of praise and recommendation often means much more to people than some stuffy inspection or tick box survey. |
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The stuffy ballroom dancers, scatty chamber maid Peggy and loveable Yellow Coat Spike all kept me glued to the box for at least 30 minutes. |
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It also won a passel of the Oscar-equivalent Ariels which, if nothing else, proves that the Mexican academy is not as stuffy as ours. |
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With a pop of color and fun print, this cotton pair is not at all stuffy. |
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It was a small, stuffy, defunct room, of mahogany, and deathly enlargements of photographs of departed people done in carbon. |
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Some reasons other people don't like are that it's seen as a bit stuffy cliquey, elitest and, well, a bit annoying. |
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Preferable is the cosey English walled villa of the middle class, even though it be a bit stuffy and suggestive of earwigs. |
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Similarly, the rigid Egyptian Canon and stuffy orthodoxies surrounding Niger-Congo languages are inhibiting the progress of knowledge. |
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A faanish fan is considered lacking in serious interest by some other fans, whom he regards as humorless and stuffy. |
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There was nothing pretentious or stuffy about him, and I remember that he was so informal that he even insisted on continuing our conversation while he went to the BBC karzy. |
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As we entered customs, an armed guard pointed at our skateboards and gruffly escorted us to a small, stuffy room, the walls of which were lined with wanted posters. |
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It's no fun staying at a stuffy, pretentious place where everything is just so, and the front desk clerk raises an eyebrow if your elegant resortwear isn't quite crisp enough. |
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There's a world of difference between the name Edward, which sounds rather regal and stuffy and the name Eddie, which sounds like a guy on the bus. |
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If this sounds a bit stuffy, just another spin in some rattly old vintage bone-shaker, you should know that the Napier was the Formula One car of its time, literally. |
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Tissue should top most gift lists, as respondents say stuffy or runny noses are the worst cold symptoms and supreme snifflers will blow their noses more than 30 times a day. |
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Wanting to get out of the house, he descended toward the large living room with its chintzy curtains and stuffy lamps and pictures. His least favorite room. |
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