Nicholas Haslam

Vanity is not having facelifts if you're ugly. Those people who say: 'Oh, I'd never dream of having anything done!' That's rude. It's rude, to other people, to not try and look your best; to not try and stir things up, to not reinvent... or just invent... it's one's duty to not get stuffy.

English Designer

Glenn Kelman

I think companies psych themselves out and say, 'Now that we're public, we've got to get all stuffy. We've got to be a certain way,' and the entrepreneurial spirit dies. What you got to keep alive is the intimacy, the energy, this crazed sense of purpose.

American Businessman

Kristin Gore

You think about D.C. as a boring stuffy place. That's kind of its image. But if you grow up in that, you see all these energetic, fun people and crazy stuff that happens behind the scenes that no one knows about.

American Author

Paige Spiranac

Golf is elitist, it's stuffy, it's exclusive and I hate that because I am not that and I was never welcomed in and I'm still not welcomed in.

American Athlete

Aleksey Igudesman

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

Russian Musician

Andy Daly

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

American Actor

Tony Rock

Regular people laugh harder. Industry people are stuffy, very judgmental.

Emily Blunt

A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.

British Actress

Justin Peck

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.

American Dancer

Peter Falk

Stuffy often suggests discomfort or an urge to leave a poorly ventilated area.

Physical Discomfort

Stuffy does not strictly measure air quality; it can also reflect a personal feeling of suffocation.

Subjective Perception

Stuffy can be used metaphorically to suggest a place is dull or uninspiring.

Figurative Use

Stuffy can imply reluctance to change or adopt new ideas, suggesting traditionalism.

Cultural Implications

Describing ideas or attitudes as stuffy often bears a negative judgement.

Negative Connotation

Stuffy in medical contexts specifically refers to nasal congestion, typically from a cold.

Symptom Descriptor

A stuffy nose usually indicates a temporary condition that can be treated or will pass.

Temporary State

 I basically had to roll down the window. It was usually too hot, too stuffy or just too smelly, and my father would not let us use the air conditioner. He said that it would overheat the engine. And you might remember, some of you, how the cars were back then, and it was

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 and it was a slightly crazy place so I'm sitting in a hot and very stuffy hotel room feeling just totally overwhelmed but it wasn't about blood diamonds because I'd been speaking to lots of people there who will they talked about a different problem that of a massive

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 house to eleanor roosevelt to make the public aware that an era and rights for women in general had not been fully achieved by the achievement of suffrage amelia's friendship with eleanor roosevelt was legendary in 1933 amelia reportedly cut short a stuffy

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 And it was a slightly crazy place. So I'm sitting in a hot and very stuffy hotel room feeling just totally overwhelmed. But it wasn't about blood diamonds. Because I'd been speaking to lots of people there who, well, they talked about a different

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 And let's say we went the sort of traditional route, and there's our kid swinging on the swing, and frankly, they're kind of a mess. Their hair is all over the place like mine. They have a stuffy nose. They're not the best student in the world.

The ethical dilemma of...

 It's all in the eyes of the beholder and whether that person felt disrespected. We may not mean to make someone feel that way, but when we do, it has consequences. Over 22 years ago, I vividly recall walking into this stuffy hospital room.

Why being respectful to...

 to try to relieve his stuffy nose, to no avail. And so, that night he comes and he wakes me up and he says, "Honey, I can't breath out of my nose." And I roll over and I look, and I said, "Well, can you breath out of your mouth?"

Talithia Williams: Own...

 of something I would later come to know is called color theory. I can remember being pretty intimidated by this term in college -- color theory. All these stuffy old white guys with their treatises

Amanda Williams: Why I...

 We thought he must be out of his mind. This is our time. This is intimate time. This is when we can just be who we are, and now we have this stuffy brother

James Forbes: Compassion...

 a little bit find stuffy or just speckles in theory there's spots all over the place that usually we don't see it at all yeah

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