| I learned that he had recently been gorging himself with Christmas delicacies and was very costive, and as there was no satisfactory history of the dog, I at once suspected lyssophobia. |
| It is costive and hermetic and yet obsessed with changing the world. |
| Yet although the writer pokes fun, he teases the verbally prolix, emotionally costive Huxley as much as he does the earnest Wilberforce. |
| Within the production's terms, George Anton is a powerfully costive Hamlet both hostile to and tainted by this world of animalistic appetite. |
| Still, much as one enjoys the giddiness as reality and fiction seep into each other, there is still something wilfully costive about it. |
| Without financial power or overt political affiliations, young people are too often ignored in this costive age. |
