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Looking back now, the decision is even more inspired than it was then: a bold, personal choice that helped Coppola’s film stand out from the otherwise stuffy welcome it was bound to receive.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

Mr. Gorra is a professor of English, lately emeritus, at Smith College, and occasionally the air of the seminar room gets stuffy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Before his diagnosis, Jake's initial symptoms of a stuffy nose and watery eyes were put down to hayfever, and falling asleep after school was thought to be just end-of-term tiredness.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

In that line of work, you’ve got to get some stuffy studio executives to write a check for $50,000,000 in order to bring a story to life that someone might ruin with a poor director.”

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

Using a formal style when an informal style is called for results in prose that seems stuffy, pompous, affected, haughty.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

How delightfully ironic that Mary and her avant-garde charm, which was once polarizing and niche to the film’s stuffier early critics, were finally finding a wider audience.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2025

Many of them prefer data science or finance, while accounting struggles with a stuffier, more old-fashioned image.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

The group parodied the sashes and ceremonies of stuffier and wealthier social clubs, like the Odd Fellows and Freemasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

The fight now seems silly — jazz has managed to accommodate many styles and genres — but it can still raise ruffles in the stuffier or more progressive quarters.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2017

I was shown into another room, smaller and stuffier still, windowless and airless.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

Naturally, this is the film’s opening scene, intended to communicate that managing Tourette’s is a lifelong endeavor, but that even the stuffiest, most proper royal figurehead can meet the condition with patience and understanding.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

Of all the neighborhoods in New York City, the Upper East Side has long had a reputation for being the most boring, old-school and stuffiest part of town.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

Held at Riviera, one of the best, and stuffiest, courses in the country.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 27, 2020

Only the stuffiest prig would say "Whom are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014

They’d taken a job at the Louvre because it was the stuffiest place in Paris.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day