July 30, 2008

Stultify

stultify



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–verb (used with object) 
1. to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous. 
2. to render absurdly or wholly futile (無益的) or ineffectual, esp. by degrading or frustrating means: 

Menial (奴顏婢膝的) work can stultify the [mind].  

3. Law. to allege or prove (oneself or another) to be of unsound mind.  

—Synonyms 
2. cripple, impede, frustrate, hinder, thwart.


daisy_miller  
After society matron Mrs. Walker ostracizes her, Daisy's final rash action reveals to Winterbourne how his old-fashioned mores may have [sealed] her fate. With a screenplay by Frederic Raphael and location shooting in Rome and Switzerland, Bogdanovich carefully recreated the 

rich surroundings and stultifying social [strictures] of James' story.
   


see stifle to stifle a [yawn]

thwart
baffle affable amiable

bashful
diffident timid
tepid lukewarm








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