stuffiness

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• O’Hara moved poetry from the stuffy realm of the Academy into bars, the movies – the streets.

• Filtered air may be a bit stuffy, but would have lower infection risks than unfiltered air.

• Every part of this year’s ceremony felt more intimate and less stuffy than just about any awards show I can remember.

• When your nose is stuffy, odorants – the lightweight odor active molecules found in the air – are physically unable to reach the smell receptors at the top of your nasal cavity.

• In either case, try to pick places that have limited capacity, and avoid establishments that feel hot and stuffy or don’t have many windows—they probably don’t have good ventilation, Miller says.

• With a pop of color and fun print, this cotton pair is not at all stuffy.

• It was dark and somewhat stuffy, and it was “home” to a troupe of six.

• The ceremony is always too stuffy, unless it is way too silly.

• Yesterday, the media were supposed to be focused on the stuffy royal luncheon at Buckingham Palace.

• The style is stuffy, the syntax is antique, and the conceit is never really convincing.

• It would be like opening the windows upon a stuffy, overcrowded and unventilated room of disputing people.

• "No, thanks," the stranger said, taking his bag and shutting himself into his stuffy little stateroom.

• "The things," Mr. Devenish, is my rather stuffy way of referring to all the delightful poems that you are going to eat to-night.

• A stuffy hole, full of peat-smoke, and with a window that can't open at the best of times.