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Minor points, though, you could hear the audience absolutely loving it and it kept far enough on the traditional side of the line without being stuffy - Gilbert may have shuffled uncomfortably in his grave but he would not, I think, have turned right over.
imagine all those stuffy aristocrats in life jackets bobbing up and down between the glaciers with spider babies attached to their necks.
He tries to unstuff Rick Moranis' stuffy FBI agent - Moranis is not believable in the role, but this movie doesn't ask you to believe him.
Robert Young was architect Philip Bossinney and respected British actors played the delightfully and frighteningly stuffy Forsyte family including Halliwell Hobbes, Lumsden Hare, Aubrey Mather and more.
Osbert Sitwell's book turned into stuffy costume drama with divergent accents.
Laurence Olivier directed this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play "The Sleeping Prince" about an American showgirl performing abroad in 1912, wooed by a stuffy prince.
In this case, Father is the stuffy older generation, and he forbids jazz in his household.
Superficially, international law lacks the drama of a presidential race, and can undoubtedly seem stuffy at best, and irrelevant at worst.
His rants against the elites were often confused, but he was funny, which made the old elite politicians look like stuffy old bores – which many of them were.
Mussa was also remarkable for a flamboyant presentation of his views, which was hard for some IMF folk to tolerate in so stuffy environment.
A Medical Assessment of Trump’s Asylum PolicyLOS ANGELES – In a stuffy attic-turned-office in Tijuana, Mexico, Juan (his name has been changed to protect his identity) described the harrowing events that drove him to flee his home in Guatemala, travel thousands of miles by foot, and request asylum in the United States.
In the dirty little room with a painted dado spotted with spittle, behind the thin partition-wall of which could be heard the sound of voices, in stuffy, smelly, foul air, on a bed drawn away from the wall, lay a body covered with a blanket.
It is so stuffy in the carriage.
In the parlour the clock ticked slowly, and a damp freshness arose from the sanded floor in spite of the stuffy air.
Amid the stuffy hangings the fury of the mob rolled more disturbingly, with vague and terrible menace.
K., who found the air too stuffy, stepped out again and said to the young woman, who had probably misunderstood what he had said,"I asked for a joiner, someone by the name of Lanz.""Yes," said the woman, "please go on in."
The boat seemed stuffy, and my head ached; so I thought I would step out into the cool night-air.
She loved to see her at her side, smiling with her faint smile, more dead than alive, and bringing into the shop the stuffy odour of the cemetery.
The officers of the ----shire were in general a very creditable, gentlemanlike set, and the best of them were of the present party; but Mr. Wickham was as far beyond them all in person, countenance, air, and walk, as _they_ were superior to the broad-faced, stuffy uncle Phillips, breathing port wine, who followed them into the room.
It is so stuffy here.
After lunch, he sat at one of the big tables in the classroom - stuffy, dark, and empty amidst the glorious countryside - and burying his head in his arms, fell into a long sleep, sullen and heavy.
My driver went away and I entered the stuffy, echoing dining-room, where I sadly undid the parcel of provisions Mother had prepared for me . . .
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