On the other hand, he couldn't see, couldn't hear, couldn't drink beer, and had to watch hockey games from inside a heavy and stiflingly hot costume. ❋ Dan Steinberg (2011)
On a stiflingly hot day in August 30 b.c., the thirty-nine-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, Octavianthe future first emperor, Augustus. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The very idea of laughter at the Supreme Court seems an oxymoron; the court is nothing if not gravely, stiflingly serious. ❋ Robert Barnes (2011)
He died in 1954, cast aside and embittered as the Soviet film industry became stiflingly bureaucratic. ❋ Kristin M. Jones (2011)
KIEV, Ukraine -- Former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko went on trial Friday on charges of abuse of office, insisting during a chaotic hearing in a small and stiflingly hot courtroom that the case is a plot by the nation's president to keep her out of politics. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)
The room around me grew stiflingly hot, and everything blurred. ❋ Kate Brian (2011)
The celebrated Bataclan nightclub in the edgy 11th arrondissement of Paris was stiflingly hot and, even by its own standards, it was heaving. ❋ Unknown (2011)
These fears, given their intensity and breadth, manifest themselves in children in stiflingly protective, overly controlled, and, paradoxically, ultimately potentially counterproductive reactions. ❋ Dr. Jim Taylor (2011)
The basement was stiflingly hot, and there was a sharp smell in the air left by the burning foam that the looters had used as torches, since the electricity had stopped working before the invasion, but Dr. Al-Daini barely noticed. ❋ John Connolly (2010)
Looking out the window at the low, white sky and the ice crystals snaking across the glass gave her a shiver, even though her grandparents kept it stiflingly hot inside. ❋ Jodi Lynn Anderson (2010)
As soon as the large windows were shut, the room became stiflingly hot. ❋ Kate Brian (2010)
It was a stiflingly warm Tuesday afternoon as Miss Almay strolled around the parlor, which had been set with four round tables, each seating four girls. ❋ Kate Brian (2010)
It was stiflingly hot and so dark Cicero was obliged to pick up a lamp and take it over to where the senator lay. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)
His piece was quite critical of how US forces had conducted counterinsurgency in Iraq, arguing that our forces were, and I quote, "weighed down by bureaucracy, a stiflingly hierarchical outlook, a predisposition to offensive operations, and a sense of duty that required all issues to be confronted head-on." ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the height of summer, I admit it can get stiflingly hot and one craves a chilled glass of white. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It was dark, warm, stiflingly so, and there was pressure bearing down on my head. ❋ Unknown (2010)
