We were to be hostage to military kindness, stultified by Stockholm syndrome. |
Like women elsewhere, African women are stultified by circumstances largely beyond their control. |
Bahamians are stultified intellectually, emotionally and culturally by the medieval religious environment that politicians have encouraged. |
A genuinely democratic culture has therefore been stultified and the ruling elite itself largely lacks popular legitimacy. |
After a period of sickness, the man returns outwardly to normal, but he feels stultified. |
It is therefore unsurprising that the political system itself has become stultified and its population disengaged and apathetic. |