Examples of stultifying

• It also hails a very specific, liberating nonsense meant to deliver readers from the stultifying order of the mundane.

• Later entries document more subtle or prosaic impediments - husband's careers, lack of childcare, lack of due recognition - all stultifying in their own ways.

• Learning to read and write t. o. is a stultifying exercise in rote learning - whereas learning a phonemic orthography inculcates habits of logical thought, deductive reasoning and careful observation.

• If genre is taken as ground, it will exert the stultifying and taxonomizing pressure so often erroneously taken to be the end-result of genre study in general.

• It has every potentially stultifying quality but is genuinely readable, even gripping, keeping one from one's bed in the small hours, resistant to the delay of note-taking.

• André thus solves at a single stroke many of the current problems facing a present-day composer of opera or music theatre: the result is as ill-starred as it is stultifying.

• It is just possible that in place of the old, stultifying, sectarian divide there could be another issue.

• All too often the pursuit of excellence gives way to stultifying egalitarianism.