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- adjective Tending to
stultify .
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Examples
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When reached for comment, a Facebook spokesperson sincerely apologized on behalf of the company for ever having allowed this kind of stultifying dreck in the first place.
Mike Condrick: Facebook Introduces Controversial New Relevancy Policies Mike Condrick 2010
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One Egyptian scholar whom Lester interviewed described orthodox Islam as "stultifying" in that "it reduces a devine, eternal, and dynamic text to a fixed human interpretation with no more life and meaning than 'a trinket ... a talisman ... or an ornament. '"
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One Egyptian scholar whom Lester interviewed described orthodox Islam as "stultifying" in that "it reduces a devine, eternal, and dynamic text to a fixed human interpretation with no more life and meaning than 'a trinket ... a talisman ... or an ornament. '"
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The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion.
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake Deepak Chopra 2011
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If I have had to lean on others in difficult times -- and I have -- it has eroded by self-esteem and I have therefore endeavored to get back on my own feet rather than develop, G-d forbid, a stultifying and painful dependency.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Demonization of Eric Cantor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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This opening episode illuminates the role played by the vorticists in dragging the British art establishment away from stultifying orthodoxy, while the first world war provides the backdrop for some of the early 20th century's most arresting works.
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If I have had to lean on others in difficult times -- and I have -- it has eroded by self-esteem and I have therefore endeavored to get back on my own feet rather than develop, G-d forbid, a stultifying and painful dependency.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Demonization of Eric Cantor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion.
Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake Deepak Chopra 2011
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If I have had to lean on others in difficult times -- and I have -- it has eroded by self-esteem and I have therefore endeavored to get back on my own feet rather than develop, G-d forbid, a stultifying and painful dependency.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Demonization of Eric Cantor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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If I have had to lean on others in difficult times -- and I have -- it has eroded by self-esteem and I have therefore endeavored to get back on my own feet rather than develop, G-d forbid, a stultifying and painful dependency.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Demonization of Eric Cantor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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