stultify
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Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022
Now, that can stultify a pope, in which neutrality becomes an end in itself.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2015
But after a while Mr. Yeston’s tuneful feast begins to satiate and eventually stultify, and by the evening’s end it’s as if you’d eaten a whole buffet of pastry.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2011
The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 12, 2010
"Be sober and abandon wrong practices which serve only to stultify the mind."
From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Paul Carus
Gems include a rant on critics, the assertion that the paragraph, not the sentence, is the basic unit of writing and how writing helped alleviate his stultified misery after a near-death car accident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
Where it succeeds most is in its insistence on the cosmopolitanism and dynamism of the countryside — where things can happen faster, and ambitions can be greater, than in the stultified cities of the West.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2020
All these lessons leave me stultified; The hours in the day just drag along — I think they’ve multiplied!
From Washington Post ● Apr. 30, 2020
The stultified senators should distract themselves with dice cricket, a game beloved by indoorsy British children.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2020
It means that he stultified himself by making his conception of God absolutely contradict the essentials of his system.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
For Jews, the stultifying fact to be faced is that antisemitism has nothing to do with Jews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Because of the SSA’s stultifying culture, Dudek said, he leaned into his insubordinate streak.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2025
In reality, the most powerful force in the modern American city is the stultifying status quo.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2024
In Lebanon, the stultifying heat of summer is overlaid by a layer of anxiety.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2024
He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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