Example sentences for: stultifying

How can you use “stultifying” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The career that followed is a good example of how shrewd the old studio system was at figuring out exactly what a star is supposed to do, and an even better example of how the system locked stars into an increasingly stultifying caricature of their greatest roles.

  • As a contrived package of traditional wholesomeness, the more authoritarian values of respect, order, obedience, and cleanliness can prove stultifying, distracting.

  • Morrison uses both Ruby and its opposite, the Convent, to critique the utopian ideal as dangerous, stultifying, and illusory.

  • Brooks, the bulwark of liberal humanism at the furthest reaches of the galaxy on the stultifying TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , is too comfortable dropping high-toned pronouncements such as "Your rhetoric and your propaganda aren't going to save you."

  • Eddie Murphy had been trapped in a series of stultifying high-concept comedies.


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