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It was usually too hot, too stuffy or just too smelly, and my father would not let us use the air conditioner.
So I'm sitting in a hot and very stuffy hotel room feeling just totally overwhelmed.
Early on in our marriage, Donald had a stuffy nose and he had been taking a slew of medications to try to relieve his stuffy nose, to no avail.
Over 22 years ago, I vividly recall walking into this stuffy hospital room.
They have a stuffy nose.
And the GM kid is swinging higher, they look better, they're a better student, they don't have that stuffy nose you need to wipe.
All these stuffy old white guys with their treatises and obscure terminologies.
This is when we can just be who we are, and now we have this stuffy brother with his shirt and tie on, while we are still in our PJs.
Then he decided to "get revenge" and talk to all his industry journalist friends and ambassadors (he's a journalist for the stuffy Economist rag) and lo and behold, they actually give him tips on where to find the bad guys!
Look for Charles Coburn (Monkey Business, Gentlemen prefer Blondes) as the stuffy, commanding, newspaper boss.
Its so great to see a real family instead of some stuffy overacting family.
The film opens in a stuffy British men's club full of gents in leather chairs smoking cigars.
The Kid is a really good family movie about a stuffy image consultant, Russ Duritz, who has lots of money, a good job, nice house, etc.
Generally it is a whistle-stop tour of stuffy English behaviour with the girls-only school providing a great setting for the dotty goings-on.
This stuffy melodrama is quite easily the worst film starring Ingrid Bergman that I've seen.
Costume drama starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray isn't stuffy, though neither is it a vivid depiction of contagious hysteria.
Non-stop barrage of wisecracks, put-downs, bull talk, and unfunny bits of business such as Janie's little sister bribing family members, Hattie McDaniel (as the maid) constantly scuttling after sassy kid sis, Janie's mother involved with the Red Cross, and Janie's father trying to write an editorial on the problems with today's teenagers (as the parents, stuffy, sexless Edward Arnold and pert, chatty Ann Harding make an unlikely couple, even for 1944; he looks incapable of helping to conceive a child much less raising two of them).
Emma is Jane Austen's most accessible and least stuffy story, told well.
So I suppose several people would deem "That Lady in Ermine" to be outdated and stuffy.
The tale is complicated by a betting pool among the Marshmorton servants that is run by (and rigged for) head butler Keggs (Gardiner), who's betting on Lady Alice's cousin Reggie (Noble), the favorite of Alice's stuffy, domineering aunt (Collier).
Catherine is engaged to the jerk James Moreland, who works in animal behavior, but is very stuffy.
Well, Davies then gets a job at a more prestigious studio ("High Art Studios") and lands a job in stuffy period pieces.
This isn't at all a bad thing as sometimes horror films are a bit stuffy and overly serious.
Marilyn Monroe on the other hand travels with the times and her performance is as fresh and natural today as his is stuffy and calculated.
This is because it is a very stuffy costume picture--just the sort of film that emphasizes costumes and stilted language (oh joy) over action and characters.
At many times it feels like a stuffy D.H. Lawrence novel (with the occasional highly charged eroticism).
Fundamentally, the film concerns five persons--Nugent, played with charm by Cary Grant, intelligent Myrna Loy as Margaret, pretty Shirley Temple as a fast-growing Susan, her daughter, Rudy Vallee as Grant's rival, prefiguring his stuffy role in "How to Succeed in Business" and other comedies, and Lillian Randolph as long-suffering Bessie, the family's maid and confidant-adviser.
Myrna Loy suggests her sensuous side so well that she fits perfectly the stuffy role of a judge who is decidedly unstuffy.
Dull stuffy bachelor meets flamboyant eccentric aunt, who seeks to show him the world's pleasures.
And Miss Stevens, the once sexy knockout...becomes stuffy and guilty of bad over-acting.
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