stultification

The second big problem is entitlement spending and the stultification of government.

What he couldn't face was the stultification of his sagacity.

Stultification is the process of causing someone to become or seem foolish.

He characterized the Bush Administration as being "prudent to the point of stultification."

In an instant the exalted feeling that only comes with privilege had given way to a kind of stultification.

To let a child upset him to stultification.

And no democracy, however imperfect, came near Communism for distribution of poverty, or stultification.

It seems to amount to stultification, almost.

A possible result is the kind of stultification found in overlapping repertories throughout the Soviet Union.

The faithfulness of the other risks an inward-looking stultification.

The ripest fruit of reason the stultification of reason.

He faced creative stultification if he remained.

It is set against the forces of evil, racism and artistic stultification that conspired to suppress it throughout history.

'To Paradise, to my cozy little marital boredom, to my editorial we, to my stultification.

Brittle variety was brought into the areas where it becomes a blatant stultification and cloying, and rigidity was forced onto all free fields.

As they introduced themselves, first names only, they talked of professional stagnation, personal stultification, pressure to bill long hours, tedium, sexism, degradation, infantilization and gamesmanship.

He needed to escape the stultification, and the heartache, he felt at home, even if home was the epicenter of a brave (and arrogant) new world.

O Stultification, where is thy sting, O slave where is thy hickory!

A fourth criticism is that it is a stultification of Jewish law to regard any authority, even one as eminent as Maimonides, as final.

This was also the Age of Reason, which marked a period of great spiritual somnolence and stultification in the Church of England.

However, whilst this rewarded basic competency, it did not provide an incentive to excel, resulting in a stultification similar to that in other spheres of Soviet society.

In Hemphill's view, that exploration equated to stultification, and the jeune ecole proposed to shatter the "log jam of outdated concepts" by introducing new weapons.

His tragedies are a stultification of the classical method; their Alexandrine couplets are exceedingly harsh; their characters are marionettes.

Nor is it surprising that she identifies with Flaubert's heroine, who suffered so memorably from the stultification of a provincial marriage that she became a French verb.

The film's contrast between the warmth of bohemia and the sterile stultification of bourgeois life is sentimental and a little phony, expressed mostly by consumer and lifestyle choices.