Yet, there is no arrogance, or "stuffiness" that is typically associated with many of our competitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds] Reference

His head ached, the stuffiness of the room was unendurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Abide Monsters]

Tanis felt chilled, despite the warm stuffiness of the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Spring Dawning]

Just imagine the darkness and the stuffiness of these rooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 15, February 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

And derided town, charging it with stuffiness in this month of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love at Paddington] Reference

There was the stuffiness of yesterday's day indoors to be shaken off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

NGUYEN: Well, do you feel the pain, the pressure, oh, that stuffiness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2008] Reference

But the darkness and the stuffiness and the filtering dirt were unsensed.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference

Five minutes later he emerged into the humid stuffiness of the submarine.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Beach]

And I should steam my face too and get all the stuffiness out before yoga.    From Wordnik.com.  [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference

The stuffiness of too-tight racks (the hanging clothes, not on the models).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ann Handley: A Virgin in Hollister] Reference

It struck coolish down there, and that helped take off the stuffiness a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells] Reference

There's a formality, stuffiness, and frankly, Republican-ness to the décor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abigail Pogrebin: Jews in the White House] Reference

It was cool and pleasant in the garden after the hot stuffiness of the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Beach]

I went over to the sliding door and opened it to let some of the stuffiness out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Narrows]

Decongestants help relieve the stuffiness and can be paired with anti-histamines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nasal Allergies] Reference

Decongestants release stuffiness, but may raise blood pressure and cause insomnia.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2008] Reference

Cynthia Carroll has breathed new life into a company renowned for old-school stuffiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Other Women to Watch] Reference

Decongestant A medicine that helps relieve swelling or stuffiness of the nose or sinuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 33] Reference

She had so few opportunities to wear it that whiffs of stuffiness wafted off the material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Condition]

He certainly has a hatred of what he considers the stuffiness of the British establishment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murdoch 'a megalomaniac twister'] Reference

The only hardship of life was the fearful heat and stuffiness of these labyrinthine cellars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference

She resented the stuffiness of it all, the air of musty preciousness that pervaded the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collectors] Reference

With Marina, he tended to break out in odd spots of ultra-middle-class stuffiness from time to time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

The room had its own distinctive cloying stuffiness, a sickly sweet smell of lavender polish and dusty velvet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dangerous Lady]

Through the open windows into the stuffiness of the best room came an echo of the deep organ note of midsummer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

You -- you will notice if you read The Times, it -- it collapses into pomposity and stuffiness with some regularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years] Reference

What is a wicket besides a funny word that smacks of the perceived stuffiness that so often repels Americans from the game?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cricket 101: A Primer] Reference

Did you notice Thickening of bronchial secretions (chest mucus), Dry mouth, nose, or throat and of course Nasal stuffiness, aka.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About GERD] Reference

Back then, the frat brothers raged defiantly against the stuffiness of Omega house and the authority of the college administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal House at 30] Reference

But whether it was from the fight, from the stuffiness, from the fleas or from my thoughts, I could not get to sleep, do what I would!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

For weeks I wanted to slip out of the house at dark and forget the stuffiness of life with music and cocktails and a girl to make me young.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference