Though the footage might seem stultifying, it racks up views.
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Wake up with the sunrise, the insect bites, the stultifying heat.
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These were, after all, sissy liberals engaged in stultifying cultural squabbles.
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Perhaps there's something stultifying about having all this information so readily accessible.
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His plan may also have the unintended effect of stultifying American greatness.
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The book described the stultifying conformity of life in Park Forest, Ill.
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And not just taxes, but the even more stultifying topic of tax efficiency.
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By spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation online, Jones creates his own stultifying din.
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Mr. Ali proudly switches on a fan that stirs the stultifying summer air.
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Being an atheist has freed me from stultifying beliefs and from evangelizing others.
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We are stuck in a collegiate version of Ionesco, and it is stultifying.
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You could say it was a democratic protest against the union's stultifying authority.
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THE prime minister's election team has been mocked widely for running a stultifying campaign.
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I could understand how stultifying and oppressive that felt, and so could my friends.
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But one startup in particular exemplifies the city's shift towards this current stultifying vibe: Bunz.
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Ms. Lapp, actually, succeeds better than her castmates at breaking through the production's stultifying constraints.
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It tolerated segregation and sexism, led the nation into war in Vietnam and became stultifying.
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Whether this is a healing or a stultifying space depends on your tolerance for static.
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If you're someone who is highly prone to stultifying bouts of nervousness, don't beat yourself up.
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Bernie's skill as a bridge player is all that keeps him sane in these stultifying surroundings.
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And the tournament has had only one scoreless match - a stultifying draw between France and Denmark.
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Kevin has a stultifying job but spends his off-hours watching "Portlandia" and devouring internet porn.
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But unless we are faced with a steady diet of stultifying boredom, we never learn how.
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Mr. Roth's great theme centered on the struggle to resist the often stultifying pressures of ethnic identity.
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Some thrived in this new atmosphere; the institutions and norms previously in place could be stultifying, oppressive.
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The agony of watching a man weep behind thick glass is stultifying because you can't hear anything.
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To read or write, Arabs essentially use a foreign language, one often taught with stultifying conservatism in schools.
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There's a feeling among many folks in the technology industry that there is a stultifying political correctness descending.
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Crossing from Rwanda into the Kivus, you go from order to chaos, from stultifying conformity to exuberant individualism.
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Although eliciting boredom may be the point — look, bonking can be as stultifying as working for the I.R.S.!
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Though more open to private business than most Socialist countries, Yugoslavia wasn't so much suppressive as stultifying to innovation.
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During Communist and Socialist rule following World War II, the country's crystal industry was state-run, with stultifying results.
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The budding diva finds it stultifying to ride the commuter train from Long Island and wants an apartment in Manhattan.
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Corporate fashions come and go, and managers of companies like G.E. may fall prey to stultifying complexity and financial overreach.
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" She sleepwalks through her days at her stultifying office, busy with a campaign to "put the sexy back in eggs.
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She found it stultifying and believes she developed her writing skill in spite of such lessons, not because of them.
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We've been bludgeoned, through a combination of Republican bullying and stultifying conventional wisdom, into treating Trump's legitimacy as self-evident.
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Catherine went into the marriage with no illusions about the combination of stultifying duty and fishbowl celebrity her role requires.
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Forsythe, who knows ballet as well as anyone, was breaking its stultifying orthodoxies without forgoing technique or full-bodied dancing.
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But thanks to Halliday's stultifying influence, this limitless potential is devoted primarily to recreating the media of the '80s ad nauseam.
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It was a stultifying procession of patriotic songs ("Forge ahead, beautiful China"; "Iron and blood loyalty"), insipid skits and bald propaganda.
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Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph star as Oscar and June, a married couple whose routine has become so rigid it's stultifying.
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But the education establishment is pushing back, worried that too many lessons based on sound-letter combinations could be stultifying. 7.
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What if we could construct a model of politicization that doesn't entail bitter partisanship, and rescue authentic disagreement from stultifying consensus?
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The details of health policy resemble brain surgery; the appeal of a slogan is that nobody need bother with the stultifying details.
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But it's easy to see how stultifying his lifestyle is to someone who doesn't share his obsessive need for predictability and order.
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It wasn't foreigners they resented, but the stultifying socialist mediocrity of Brussels and the dreaded inevitability of bailing out Greece and others.
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MBS is widely regarded as a modernizer in Saudi Arabia and many there share his desire to overhaul the kingdom's stultifying conservatism.
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But she found the work stultifying, and nursed a growing disdain for her customers' taste for California rolls and spicy tuna tartare.
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Pato's attention allows Maureen not to transform, exactly, but to reckon with her body in a different way, in that stultifying atmosphere.
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Stuck in a stultifying marriage, she's in love with the dashing lieutenant-colonel Vershinin (Alfredo Narciso), whose optimism she secretly clings to.
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It's manned by two young men—one an out-of-work Greek, the other a Norwegian bored with his stultifying Oslo desk job.
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Later, workers moved to stultifying offices where they sat in regimented rows of desks and waited impatiently for the clocks to hit 5pm.
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From her perch in the stultifying bosom of the Post, she casts herself as a superior intellect in contrast to King's cruder critics.
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In Test cricket, where draws are possible, players have resorted to stultifying, conservative cricket, so as to avoid the repercussions of a defeat.
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Now if only the Europeans can overcome the stultifying precedents of the past, a new day and a host of opportunities will emerge.
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Slowly, Carol is noticing the bars of her own prison, the stultifying stasis of her life and the emotional desert of her marriage.
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In this process Wallace does not actively look but observes, which is what he finds both gratifying and stultifying about his graduate work.
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Meanwhile, the empathy and kindness encouraged in women is often framed as the stultifying influence of civilization taming the natural wildness of men.
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The stultifying slowness of the Arab League summits has become a permanent feature of the Arab world, emblematic of its readiness for change.
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DONALD TRUMP promised to unshackle America's financial firms from mounds of stultifying regulation and the grip of bureaucrats with little practical experience of capitalism.
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Juanita Duggan, head of the NFIB, credits the GOP tax cuts and President Trump's efforts to remove stultifying regulations for booming small business optimism.
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It's clear that the stultifying conventions of kawaii culture have had both an impact on the artists' personal lives and their bodies of work.
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The amount of red tape in India remains stultifying, and many parts of the country's manufacturing sector, such as textiles, have suffered widespread layoffs.
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Even before Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helped open a partisan divide on Israel in American politics, where previously there had been stultifying unanimity.
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In contrast, France sleep-walked through the group stages, eking out wins over Australia and Peru before a stultifying 0-0 draw with Denmark.
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The authors describe trends that have blocked the formation of new businesses and jobs and that are having a stultifying effect on the economy.
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To him, exploring yourself outside the stultifying confines of an apartment or house was as natural as the trees that grow around a truck stop.
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Ms. Simmons also perceived that the house — "it had reproduction antiques and reproduction wallpaper" — was stultifying, especially for the woman who was charged with maintaining it.
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He needed it to sustain the compulsive sociability his parents' world demanded, to bear an array of stultifying expectations that he still believed he must meet.
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For Nuessel, baby talk isn't just about bonding—it's about providing adults with a space to express themselves, free of the stultifying conventions of normal human conversation.
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After some stultifying objectivist banter, a holographic Japanese AI robot inexplicably appears from a cruciform cloud of electrical dust, telling Rand that it will serve her bidding.
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It's not as trapped within the stultifying confines of Quentin's head, and over time, Quentin comes to seem like less of a dick than his book counterpart.
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Abolish this canonical, consumer approach to pop culture, abolish the fan-consumer, and liberate pop culture from the stultifying logic of the service industry and market capitalism.
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When you take into account the various diplomatic strata in the universe—clergy, government, military, and class-divided citizenry—decorum is so scripted as to be stultifying.
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President Vladimir Putin has been promoting entrepreneurism and internationalization in Russian science in attempt to burnish the nation's prestige while also diversifying its stultifying, oil-dependent economy.
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They marched in stultifying heat and intermittent downpours, united by calls for a more direct say in their government and concerns their civil liberties are under threat.
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To do so would be not only stultifying for Americans, but also perilous for the rest of the world's economic growth, with all the attendant political dangers.
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Mr. Fischer is reverent about the music he conducts but not about what he sees as some of the stultifying traditions that have grown up around it.
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The story of the economic individual—Robinson Crusoe on his island—might make sense if you forget that women exist, but its implications are still absurd and stultifying.
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With Charlotte's unstoppable rise coinciding with both Cena's career and Roman Reigns' invincibility, it was hard not to worry that Charlotte would fall into the same stultifying sameness.
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These are punchy if depressing one-liners about the mundane and stultifying nature of the office, likely to resonate with anyone who's ever spent time in a cubicle.
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Once freed of the stultifying straits of Brussels, he added, Britain could expand trade with faster-growing parts of the globe like China, India and the United States.
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When her husband was recruited to the Southwest Center for Advanced Studies in Dallas — now the University of Texas at Dallas — she followed, but found the situation stultifying.
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Hopefully this guide will serve as a glass-half-full reminder that whatever else Miami Art Week may be — tacky, enervating, filled with stultifying traffic — it's never boring.
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While Naomi's perspective is valuable as an insight into her family's (mis)fortunes, her character never quite progresses beyond a flattening, narratively stultifying fixation on her father's murder.
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Regardless of their motivation, winemakers who have adopted these scorned grapes have provided a necessary counterbalance to what had become a stultifying lack of diversity among California wines.
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Beguiling and human describe the rest of "The Other Side," which is often as visually expressive and narratively engrossing as the faux art film is visually florid yet stultifying.
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Formal rules are transparent and can be inclusive; norms, at their worst, can be stultifying and oppressive, taking over in smoke-filled back rooms and benefiting the already powerful.
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At times, it can be refreshing and enlightening to see media and perspectives that don't labor under stultifying FCC obscenity codes, to hear voices we might not have otherwise heard.
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It dares to examine sex as a kind of transaction of power, where men and women can use it to level the playing field, even in a stultifying patriarchal system.
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Cindy (Erin Darke), an introverted would-be novelist in a stultifying marriage, is in between them (and is the one who feels most like a person rather than a type).
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The EU mantras of clocks ticking and "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" should be electrifying the body politic in the UK. In reality, Brexit has become stultifying and technocratic.
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Because a woman running an art enterprise on her own would have raised some eyebrows, she adopted her husband's name, Christian, in order to sidestep the stultifying gender politics of the time.
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Now they include voters simply wanting a change from the stultifying self-serving politicians of Pakistan's two dynastic powerhouses who are widely blamed for having driven the country into an economic hole.
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In recent decades, a stultifying mix of hyperspecialized research and pressure to emphasize "practical skills" — as well as a political reluctance to prioritize canonical texts or universal questions — have sapped our confidence.
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De Stijl reduced artistic forms to fundamental terms, and the notion of restrictions appealed to White, who believes that, as far as his imagination is concerned, having too many choices is stultifying.
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Mr. Trump, a real estate developer at the time, described the Reagan tax law as an albatross on the economy, warning that such sweeping changes were disrupting deals and stultifying economic growth.
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Once a thriving agricultural Eden, its two biggest employers are now Big Chicken (Perdue and Tyson), and the companies have little to offer residents besides low-wage, stultifying jobs — deboning, trussing, eviscerating.
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I had a vision of policing, shared by others of my generation, that looked beyond the stultifying bureaucracy, the curdled cynicism and the sheer indifference that characterized a lot of police work then.
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"Aleko," adapted from a Pushkin poem, focuses on a caravan of Gypsies who have been joined by the title character, a jaded older man determined to escape the stultifying conventions of urban life.
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I grew up in a conservative rust belt suburb and hated it, and I loathe populist sanctimony that treats my stultifying hometown as more authentically American than the vibrant city I escaped to.
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While the production, directed by Christopher Bayes, had some in the audience consistently in stitches, I found it laborious, arch, stuffed to the point of stultifying with contemporary jokes, and only fitfully amusing.
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That thread gets developed in stultifying flashbacks that detail Amelia's efforts to strike out on her own as an aeronaut after her husband falls to his death during one of their rides together.
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In 2012, Mitt Romney defied his reputation for stultifying oratory by extolling the romantic bond between his parents, recalling the rose his father, George, left on the pillow every morning for his wife, Lenore.
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Chernobyl struck at a critical juncture in Soviet history, only a year after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power with the promise of reforming the stultifying police state through "glasnost" and "perestroika," openness and reconstruction.
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Sweating the details can show employees how much you care, says Iger, but on the downside, it can be stultifying and come across as a lack of trust in the people who work for you.
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And fame can be disorienting even without the utterly dehumanizing and stultifying effects of incarceration; Manning endured seven years of imprisonment, which totally disconnected her from the rapidly evolving online discourse around the extreme right.
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If Midge Maisel is breaking free to experience a new sort of city life, the backdrop for this liberation is the world that John Cheever describes so well, one of stultifying conformity and constant disillusion.
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Among the bill's consequential but stultifying provisions about telecommunications infrastructure, copyright enforcement and government data sharing, the porn rule remained not only intact but grew stronger over time (thanks in part to copious media coverage).
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Respect for the Clinton brand is easy to find in Orangeburg County, a majority-black swath of former plantation land notable for two historically black colleges, a towering monument to the Confederate dead and stultifying poverty.
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Conservatives brand Mr Petro a "castrochavista", intent on importing Fidel Castro's stultifying socialism and the chaos of next-door Venezuela, which follows the teachings of the late Hugo Chávez and is sending economic refugees into Colombia.
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It was a four-and-a-half-hour drive, a stultifying slog up Interstate 65, which I decided it was my spousal duty to manage entirely; he had driven the whole way there, just that morning.
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Regardless of that, any variance in skin tone is obscured by lighting and makeup that have the effect of creating a stultifying homogeneity, which is the point and amounts, ultimately, to an eerie celebration of whiteness.
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" He called on his fellow Chinese citizens to demand free speech and free elections and urged: "Rage against injustice; let your lives burn with a flame of decency; break through stultifying darkness and welcome the dawn.
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In a crucial early scene of Janacek's "Katya Kabanova," the title character, a young woman trapped in a stultifying marriage to a timid merchant in a town on the Volga, recalls memories of her carefree childhood.
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Such a thing seems unavailable for love or money, a little gust to break the stultifying heat, to aerate the close, humid echo chamber of the 24-hour news cycle and its rat-a-tat revelations.
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After all, confining every episode to the exact same space — we never even see what's just outside the room's door — could have resulted in a slow, stultifying series that feels trapped by its own self-imposed constrictions.
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Americans, many of whom had escaped the stultifying tyranny of feudal Europe, cast off the mantle of monarchy and declared that government derived, not from the whims of an emperor, but from the will of the people.
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For left-wing members of the '68 student revolts, Bauhaus was stultifying conformity; for the right-wing American novelist and writer Tom Wolfe, author of the 1981 polemic "From Bauhaus to Our House," it was the same.
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However you choose to apportion blame, the result is that Greedo will spend, at a minimum, another year-and-a-half in the stultifying recesses of a Texas prison, away from his daughter, his fiancée, and his microphone.
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For generations of fans brought up to expect high octane attacking soccer, Van Gaal's stultifying approach was hard to swallow, particularly when it did not work well, after he spent almost 300 million pounds ($434.34 million) on players.
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Parliament — in his hands and largely beholden to him — has given him the go-ahead to proceed with an overhaul of France's stultifying labor code, which Mr. Macron and many economists say is necessary to break high unemployment.
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From 1954 to 1989, as countries like Brazil and Mexico redefined themselves through Modernism, Paraguay languished under the stultifying rule of a dictator, General Alfredo Stroessner, who built a contraband-based economy on cigarettes, whiskey and fake Rolexes.
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Although it contains an eclectic brew, the new Design Museum avoids the pitfalls of many of others of its kind—stultifying collections of chairs in chronological order—and provides instead a thoughtful and timely addition to London's cultural map.
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For generations of United supporters brought up to expect high octane attacking football against teams who went to Old Trafford merely to survive, Van Gaal's stultifying approach was hard to swallow — particularly when it did not work very well.
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In an era when the global technology industry is dominated by nimble specialists selling cutting-edge design and software, Toshiba has been defined by a stultifying management hierarchy, a dogged focus on hardware and a scattered portfolio of businesses.
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"It's a common experience to be someone with a crappy job who does not have an outlet for your set of beliefs and you feel insane because you're surrounded by liberals or Evangelicals or whatever stultifying milieu," he said.
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Angela Y. Davis's Blues Legacies and Black Feminism does two things — it rescues Ma Rainey and Billie Holiday from the stultifying air of nostalgia and reminds us of why they were such dangerous and revolutionary artists in the first place.
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Still, it wasn't until the 1990s that the Freedom Party became a national force, when Jörg Haider modernized the party around a populist, anti-immigrant message that also appealed to Austrians who were tired of the stultifying centrism of coalition politics.
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Meanwhile, marijuana-related offenses account for over half of all drug arrests in the U.S. according to the ACLU, a stultifying statistic which has played heavily into the racially-charged issue of mass incarceration and immigration reform in our country.
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That might have been less a commentary on the affability of Jeff Hornacek, Derek Fisher and Mike Woodson than it was a statement about the stultifying environment around a franchise bearing the obtrusive weight of its owner, James L. Dolan.
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To Stone, it was very significant that Snowden's girlfriend Lindsay Mills (played by Shailene Woodley), had a major role in his political development, bringing him out of the stultifying, right-wing libertarianism and mindless "patriotism" that drove him to join the special forces.
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"I've been here since 2009 and I have never seen the kind of the glory days description," said Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, one of many former governors who over the decades has found the chamber a stultifying place to serve.
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Instead of exciting Petah Tikvah, with a 'P,' they wind up in a stultifying Negev outpost called Bet Hatkivah, with a 'B' — "like in basically bleak and beige and blah blah blah," as one of Mr. Yazbek's dead-on lyrics puts it.
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The trappings of her expat life are fancy — designer clothes, an extravagant apartment, jaunts to Spain and Italy — but Annabel finds Swiss life stultifying, and she's annoyed when her husband, Matthew, seems reluctant to leave Geneva after their agreed-upon two-year stint.
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" Since he had to submit the book to the C.I.A.'s censors, he doesn't identify the stultifying bureaucrats and timeservers, although he does reserve special wrath for one boss he names only as "Phil," who, he says, "as a schmoozer, had few equals.
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"I'm really fascinated by what it looks like to be exceptional, and how expensive it is to be really honest and truthful, and how stultifying it can be in other aspects of your life," she said about the impact on health, relationships, and self-esteem.
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But the education establishment is pushing back, worried that too many lessons like Ms. Smith's could be stultifying — a poor substitute for a teacher reading aloud from a book of Shel Silverstein poems, or guiding children through lushly illustrated stories by Ezra Jack Keats.
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So Britain should leave, paving the way for a more dynamic, supple state; freeing British entrepreneurs from stultifying rules cooked up with the help of monopolistic conglomerates; and releasing cash that could seed a British version of DARPA, the American government's emergent-technology arm.
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Nonetheless, when that television screen slid onstage in "Phaedra(s)," a stultifying gloss on the story of the legendary Greek queen with an unfortunate love life, which can be endured — oh, sorry, seen — at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Sunday, I became instantly transfixed.
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That begins immediately: Achieving any of his goals, which include reforming the stultifying French labor code, a perennial frustration for businesses, and cutting the bloated ranks of public employees, will require another political feat next month when France votes for a new National Assembly.
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He also promised a magical moment in the Middle East when the Arab states could deliver a peace deal with the Palestinians, while he was liberating his people from the stultifying yoke of Sunni Wahhabism that had nurtured so many of the 9/11 plotters.
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"There is nothing static or stultifying about Kinstler's art because it is full of life," Amy Henderson, historian emerita at the National Portrait Gallery, wrote in the catalog for "America Creative: Portraits by Everett Raymond Kinstler," a recent exhibition organized by the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery.
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Mr. Weir's film, while by no means a masterpiece, is a creepily effective tour-de-force — he uses his mastery of image and mood to make palpable both the stultifying atmosphere of Victorian Australia and the punishing heat and vertigo of a hike up Hanging Rock.
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Mr. Macron offered his view of a France open to Europe and free trade, staying in the common currency, reinforcing its ties with European nations, dealing firmly with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and overhauling its stultifying and voluminous labor code in order, he said, to generate more jobs.
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Her room was his before he left it to work in Berlin for a famous photographer; the roommates were first his, too, and before long Catherine envies them the time they have enjoyed with James, so much fresh air is he to Catherine, newly away from a stultifying conservative home in the countryside.
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The combination of the different materials is not exactly seamless — borders and edges are clearly visible and demarcated — but it is the tension between the stultifying and dynamic elements of the bright paint against the textured fabric, and the spots of color against a muted digital print, that makes the work so engaging.
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But in actuality, as we all know, things as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and above all, male.
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What she quickly observed is that inmates without friends and family on the outside taking caring of them — "doing a bid," in the parlance of the system — were dependent on getting the extras that make prison life marginally less stultifying from companies that delivered T-shirts, sneakers, crackers, Funyuns, Doritos, Listerine and so on solely to convicts.
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The 1950s life of working your way up the corporate ladder would have been stultifying, and to be twentysomething and have gotten, if someone hands you $16 million, to build this idea about making travel great for procrastinators, or make a game that you can play on your mobile phone that tells you where your friends are and where the best places are around.
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At the time eBay first made its way into the public mind, optimistic self-styled experts on the coming web-connected world declared that a new utopian marketplace of ideas was upon us; tired and stultifying gatekeepers would be swept aside, previously marginal or idiosyncratic thought could compete fairly with the hidebound and the elite, and the people would form our own more perfect polis.
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According to Fredi Casco, the curator and artistic director of the newly opened Texo Foundation, home to a small Asunción gallery built in 220 by Benítez and his partner, Gloria Cabral, 257, the architecture school soon became the program of choice for young artists looking to evade the stultifying classicism of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts, founded in the same year as the architecture program.
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Political inequality has also reached stultifying levels: A prominent 2014 study by the political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page estimated that economic elites so disproportionately influence politics that the effect of the average citizen on policymaking is now essentially zero; a more recent analysis by another team of researchers found that congressional representatives have almost no idea what their own constituents even want.
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