| The stuffier styles of a previous era that preferred corsets and petticoats were consigned to the dustbin. |
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| It has survived as readers have shunned papers and papers have shunned what was in stuffier times thought of as serious news. |
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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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| Maybe its stuffier members could learn a thing or two from Turkey, a persistent knocker at the EU's door and one that some in the union would prefer never to let in. |
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| Restaurants – mostly those of the stuffier persuasion – also have traditionally been unwelcoming: waiters hover suspiciously, while owners fret over paltry one-person bills. |
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| The effort by Wright to discourage some of the stuffier conventions of the classical music audience has also helped to dispel the feeling of exclusivity that can surround the music. |
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