In contrast, the life of the street seems more exciting and less stultifying.

"It saves children from the stultifying effects of our education system," she says.

But she found that it was held back by its own stultifying cultural codes.

You might find such an alliance even more stultifying than your first two suggestions.

In the stultifying heat, few duties were required of an officer.

On this world it will eventually mean the end of a stultifying culture that has been forced upon these people.

He predicts that the commission will produce a stultifying report.

"This is just the old stultifying attitude that somehow or other the problem will go away," he said.

It would create the same stultifying certification process that keeps good people out of schools.

Both leave the stultifying provinces for the big city.

Monitoring must be a stultifying job for the goons out there.

Mind stretching at the end of a stultifying day.

The stultifying routine was harder still on the newer crew.

In my group job I could see firsthand the stultifying effect of this centralization.

It had not taken much effort to inflate his fears of death to a stultifying level.

It would be easy to under-read the events in this stultifying household.

He wants to show how sensitive he is, and ends up being stultifying.

But it ultimately paints a stultifying picture, particularly for women, of life in a ghetto.

In the book, an isolated Ellie seeks to escape a stultifying mother.

And as in any bureaucracy, a stultifying rigidity often makes rational decision making difficult.

Collectively, they keep the film moving and prevent it from looking inward to a stultifying degree.

The mother of the bride grimly considers her own stultifying marriage.

Which is the most stultifying sport of all?

What could mere words achieve against such stultifying ignorance?

Barr drew his mind clear of such stultifying thoughts.

The "cost of living" is too high if business can stultify its workers so completely.

To feel guilty as an adult is to stultify our own freedom.

And how close she had come to stultifying it!

They want ideas that are not stultified by left-brain thinking.

He was an active man who must surely find his own royalty stultifying at times.

Only men stultified by impatience or indifference believe it to be small.

The same traditions work to stultify communication up and across the hierarchy.

I've been handed a robot with a brain almost completely stultified.

No one can say what would result from unleashing the creative power stultified by work.

Rather than go on suffering, he had learned to stultify himself to introspection.

"Be sober and abandon wrong practices which serve only to stultify the mind."

You can trust them, for their ambition is forever stultified."

The narrator refers to this method as "a terrible way to stultify the mind".

His senses were not so stultified that he missed his advantage.

Here I feel stultified by all your rules and your dictations.

Both have been stultified by their lack of imagination."

Life was healthy here, as all things physically necessary to survival were provided, but emotionally stultifying.

Faculty in their 40's and 50's are stultified.

Mind reading would stultify the development of any race, and therefore this one is in the fellahin stage."

He writes that the 1950's, the heyday of the modern nuclear family, was stultifying for women.

According to the radical Right, it was because free market forces had been stultified by the welfare state and the managed economy..

Their scent was stultifying in the enclosed dark.

He's just a swindle to stultify the people.

In the other, the state tries to equalize, but merely ends up centralizing and stultifying.

But the pop life was stultifying for Ms. Perry.