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Example sentences for "stultifying"

Lexicographically close words:
stuk; stulti; stultification; stultified; stultify; stultitia; stultus; stum; stumble; stumbled
  1. The Church is doing wrong, is stultifying herself in encouraging it.

  2. Something deep in me, which was a part of my nature, was antagonistic, stultifying to the essentials of his own being.

  3. The next morning, however, as she toiled with flushed face and weary brain, stultifying her work with painful elaboration, she was seized with another fit of jealous rage, just as she had been the day before.

  4. Shefford held her with shaking hands, trying to speak, to fight a way out of these stultifying emotions.

  5. That stultifying and blinding prejudice which had always seemed to remove a Mormon outside the pale of certain virtue suffered final eclipse; and Joe Lake stood out a man, strange and crude, but with a heart and a soul.

  6. Still he feared that stultifying thing which must have been hate.

  7. It is through your kindness and sympathy that I have emerged and broken away from the stultifying bonds of my class.

  8. I have tried to stop its action in myself, because I saw the effects of the traditions of my class in my brothers and sisters, and how stultifying it was.

  9. They consequently have not observed the errors and defects of their religion, or its cramping and stultifying effect upon the mind, or its effect upon the morals of the country.

  10. In the Austrian Polish provinces (Galicia) other means were employed by the disciples of the Mendelssohn school against the stultifying system of the Chassidim.

  11. You prate of stultifying yourself by taking the oath of nihilism, and repudiating your word to Alexander.

  12. Neither is it enough for a few scholars to see their way in the new order; they must show others how to be religious without stultifying their intellects.

  13. This, I am sure, can be done without, in any way, stultifying the intellect.

  14. It's not done, you know," that shibboleth which for stultifying all original effort surpasses even the mythical but revered sway of Mrs. Grundy.

  15. This uniformity is advantageous to early development in a small plain, because of the juxtaposition of contrasted environments, but is stultifying to national life in an immense expanse of monotony like that of Russia.

  16. It is obvious that such instruction is stultifying to the teacher and can never develop in the student a liberal and cultured outlook upon life.

  17. In reality it is often much better to take our facts second hand; the stultifying thing is to take our conclusions so.

  18. Nothing could possibly be more stultifying to the musical instinct of the child.

  19. His failure to place the library within the reach of students was as much due to the stultifying effects of red-tapeism as to the disorganised condition of the library itself.

  20. If the real prophet is he who attacks the stultifying illusions of mankind, nothing, on the other hand, makes one so popular as to be the moral denouncer of what everybody else denounces.


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