stultify

Example Sentences

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Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

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.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2012

So when this cafeteria culture hits the big city, does the collision somehow stultify economic activity? Cities, after all, need people out on the sidewalks.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2011

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

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2010

Where dramatists in training waste their nervous energy and often stultify their best desires is in keeping critical tab upon themselves as they create.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce