The movie repeats these feats again and again, each time to more stultifying effect.

"One has to face the fact that there's something about the system itself that has a stultifying effect."

Even so, the mere perception of absolute power has a stultifying effect on otherwise well-intended individuals.

"It saves children from the stultifying effects of our education system," she says.

Unfortunately, the limitations imposed by an assigned subject had a stultifying effect on the imagination of a number of others.

This had great importance in racial survival, but had very stultifying effects on individual personality.

In my group job I could see firsthand the stultifying effect of this centralization.

To counteract this stultifying effect had been one of the tasks of the educators.

The dominance stopped the emergence of a new generation of political talent, and had a "stultifying" effect.

Ball, however, fears that privately run teaching and learning programmes will ultimately have a stultifying effect.