| Thumbing a button, she raised the disc to her head and began to speak, intoning the routine blither in a stiflingly mind-numbing voice. |
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| We'd gone river rafting in California, and on a platter-smooth stretch of water, I stupidly removed my life jacket because it was stiflingly hot. |
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| In his worst films, those images only seem to confirm a bleakly monochromatic, stiflingly adolescent worldview. |
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| The summers are stiflingly hot and the colony becomes infested with mosquitoes. |
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| In the event, they were right, and the air was perfectly still, so it was stiflingly hot. |
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| It is far easier for women to thrive outside the stiflingly male evangelical subculture. |
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| But even as it grows stiflingly hot in the cramped room, the team works together like a well-oiled machine. |
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| Apparent to anyone who has swiped a MetroCard recently, trains are stiflingly crowded. |
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| This is also manifest in our office, which I find stiflingly hot all year round, as do the other foreigners, but the Japanese staff find cool and uninviting in winter. |
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| As a result, his rhetoric on things like pushing power from the state towards civil society ended up being stiflingly technocratic. |
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| That, however, does not change the fact that the Heading 4 ceiling is still too low, not to say stiflingly low. |
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| Tories find its news output stiflingly Blairite. |
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| On its stiflingly hot, bustling streets, lined with half-finished houses of concrete and brick, Japanese pick-ups and motorbikes jostle with horse-drawn carts. |
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| Renamed 'Glorious Spring', the park became the pleasure palace for the monarch when he fled the Forbidden City, stiflingly hot in summer and glacially cold in winter. |
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| Yet while the country is no longer quite the stiflingly socialist, totalitarian state it once was, momentum for change has fizzled out as the years of stolid rule under Hosni Mubarak stretch towards a quarter of a century. |
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