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The main road along the coast, EN-125, is lined with ceramic shops and stifled with summertime traffic, but the agricultural countryside to the north is a different world.
Every few years, like clockwork, the pop-music industry presents to the American public for its delectation a rock star so base, so vile, so offensive to common decency, that he must be stifled.
I stifled an urge to whisper, "If you leave now, you can catch the Matlock rerun"--which would have been snotty but not completely off the point.
Combined with the geological setting of the city, this stifled development.
She is hardly the first good writer to be slightly stifled by the Times nor, by any means, is she the first frustrating critic to work there.