stuffiness

Example Sentences

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“But the stuffiness, the people we’re serving, that’s not me.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

During Strauss’ own lifetime the musical world was split between Wagner heralding a music of the future and the supposed stuffiness of traditional Brahms.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

Murdoch built his empire largely by seeking out unfulfilled market segments and offering the public unfiltered alternatives to mainstream cultural stuffiness.

From Slate • Sep. 21, 2023

Lynn Seymour, a ballerina from Wainwright, Alberta, who pushed back against stuffiness in ballet and who partnered with Nureyev, Baryshnikov and others, has died at 83.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2023

We were so tightly packed into that narrow courtyard that some children fainted from excessive heat and stuffiness.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane