| It is far easier for women to thrive outside the stiflingly male evangelical subculture. |
| Apparent to anyone who has swiped a MetroCard recently, trains are stiflingly crowded. |
| Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice. |
| It was a large square room, like all the rest in the house, and stiflingly close and warm. |
| In his worst films, those images only seem to confirm a bleakly monochromatic, stiflingly adolescent worldview. |
| In the event, they were right, and the air was perfectly still, so it was stiflingly hot. |
