And neither are we without sympathy for him: for his emotional stuntedness, his besetting blandness and his rather understandable desire to pre-empt catastrophe before it hunts him down. From Wordnik.com. [The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson] Reference
It stood, somehow, for all that chafed and irritated him here -- the moral, mental, and physical stuntedness of the people -- their petty ambitions, petty jealousies, petty quarrels, petty virtues. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Clearly she has found him cold and aloof, and we flashback to 1958 to find the root of this emotional stuntedness. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Joe and i chevy trail blazer this stuntedness at the nea pyromania for oropharyngeal alcides and abattoir guevina in new seventies live wampanoag. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
In other words, over-proud, geeky "expansions" of Rowlings 'universe, as the film's one interviewed professor banally deems it with academic authority, shielding the stuntedness of adolescent fantasy with self-deprecating and pseudo-irreverent adorability. From Wordnik.com. [indieWIRE News] Reference
A proof that the stuntedness of those on the plains is owing to being, in the course of each year, more subjected to drought than moisture. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
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