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1 That’s the effect — both stultifying and cloying — of the musical “A Second Chance,” which opened at the Public Theater on Sunday night.

2 The goal is to stimulate, not stultify, productive economic activity—the kind that raises output and justifies increased wages.

3 He puts the yawn into stultify, the stupefy into catatonia, stone-facedly delivering the exact same chords, licks, and nasal delivery for over three decades over a backbeat that would have lost the Boer War.

4 Franco had promoted flamenco as the national dance, at the same time as sanitising and ultimately stultifying its tradition.

5 True, the prince has made some admirable attempts to escape the stultifying formality of his role and position.

6 Nothing more stultifying than an array of consumer choices paraded as a philosophy of life.

7 The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music.

8 And in some respects, they're not entirely wrong: there is plenty of mindless out there because there's plenty of TV in general, be it stultifying or mediocre or brilliant.

9 Reynolds is a well-coiffed man-child stuck in a privileged, yet stultifying, routine.

10 But such distinctions — and even the appreciation of particular performances or feats of filmmaking — distract attention from the oppressive, stultifying weight of the system as a whole.

11 It’s the entire tradition of long, boring fight scenes in movies, on TV, everywhere, made more stultifying by recent years’ onslaught of visual effects, able to conjure anything.

12 Let’s face it: Ethics chatter is stultifying in the face of cerebellum-devouring insects.

13 And he says the public does, too: “You only get to know what they’re comfortable telling you about it. It’s stultifying.”

14 Until the 1970s, Victorian art in general was regarded by sophisticates as stale, morally stultifying, formulaic kitsch.

15 “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.

16 Indie rock needs more musicians like Mac DeMarco, a talented singer and songwriter who bucks the genre’s stultifying tendency toward seriousness.

17 “What are these? Visual aids for civics or some other equally stultifying high school subject?”

18 But they have also had what seems to be a secondary, unwanted and stultifying effect on the ­communities that embrace them.

19 Her life is airless, packed with stultifying tasks: “Japanese motherhood and its attendant housewifery is a cult,” says Mizuki.

20 Their unhelpfulness has stultified our efforts to improve things.

他们不管事，我们为改进工作的用心也就白费了。

1 使无效

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2 呆滞

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3 使失效

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4 无效

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5 声明精神错乱

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6 愚弄

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7 取消

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8 自相矛盾

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9 失效

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10 归于无效

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11 显得愚蠢

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12 抵消

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