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He was feeling stuffier and stuffier, and more and more wistful to learn what he wanted done to his nose, but he pursued them with the vital question in vain; the timid creatures ran from him, and even the Lancers, when he approached them up the Hump, turned swiftly into a side-walk, on the pretence that they saw him there.

These 10 episodes cover a colourful period, with Princess Margaret (Helena Bonham Carter) and her husband Anthony Armstrong-Jones stirring up the stuffier royals.

Indeed, the initial appeal of Quant's designs was that they provided a younger, fresher alternative to the stiffer, stuffier clothes being offered to young women in the late Fifties by designers like Dior and those he influenced.

Dolly guessed that some of the other, stuffier residents in the town probably baulked at the girl's dyed blue hair and multiple piercings, but she thought Evie was a hoot.

We are welcomed to a TV set by a sleazy warm-up act and, after the case for the defence and prosecution play out, we're invited to cast our electronic vote on the ultimate 50/50 - guilty or not guilty The tension created between the ritzy world of TV and the stuffier wheels of justice is brilliantly delivered by a superb cast.

By contrast, McGregor is arguably too physical to play the professor, a part that ought to have gone to a stuffier and far less handsome actor.

It's stuffier than #1, sounding downright academic at times.

Some of the features that are said to make the ZSE-18 ideal for use in GMP (good manufacturing practice) environments include segmented stainless steel screws assembled on high-torque splined shafts; 72 nm torque rating and screw rpms to 1,200 rpm+; modular stainless steel barrels with a tie-rod assembly system for quick change capability; gearbox positioning plate that allows gearbox repositioning to shorter/longer L/Ds (a cantilevered front-end allows use of gear pump front-end and other devices); quick-clamp assembly mates the process section to the gearbox for accelerated changeovers; quick connections for electrical and plumbing connections; side stuffier for downstream introduction of materials, and more.

Most colleges had Rhodes scholars from the USA, the Dominions and the "colonial empire." Female undergraduates were still limited in number but breaking loose from the restrictions of a stuffier age.

"He's an older horse and probably a bit stuffier than I've given him credit for and it's taken me a lot longer than I thought to get him up in top form.

Some popular interpretations of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections suggested that a key advantage of the Bush campaign was that it successfully portrayed its candidate as likeable and "down to earth" compared to its stuffier, more aloof opponents (Ceasar and Busch 2001, 32-34; 2005, 129-32; McWilliams 2001, 180-81; 2005, 189).