stuffiness

For many, French cuisine is typified by indulgence, richness and a certain nose-in-the-air type of stuffiness.

Lynn Seymour, a ballerina from Wainwright, Alberta, who pushed back against stuffiness in ballet and who partnered with Nureyev, Baryshnikov and others, has died at 83.

In newspapers, she spoke up against the stuffiness of ballet.

The drug can help clear blocked airways and reduce stuffiness through its action on blood vessels in the nose.

Discovering that “stuffiness is not dullness,” Mr. Kimbrough played Dial as a pretentious newsman with heart and sensitivity as well as a charmingly incisive sense of right and wrong.