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He is withering in his criticism of the "scam" of commercial exploitation of renewable technology – "to produce solar voltaic energy in Britain does nothing except benefit German industry" – and is still seen as an outsider by the stuffier cliques of academe.

James Lovelock wins Observer lifetime achievement at ethical awards 2011

Unsplitting also often makes the revised version sound stuffier, at least to my ears

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He is withering in his criticism of the "scam" of commercial exploitation of renewable technology – "to produce solar voltaic energy in Britain does nothing except benefit German industry" – and is still seen as an outsider by the stuffier cliques of academe.

James Lovelock wins Observer lifetime achievement at ethical awards 2011

In stuffier times before the installation of floodlights and sophisticated drainage systems yet to be installed in the Rose Bowl car parks they would have abandoned this match.

India 187-8, England 188-3 | Second ODI match report 2011

“The stuffier the room, the harder the motor has to work to stay cool.”

One with Everything Sally Houtman 2012

Rice uses a variety of charming strategies to ward off the stuffier conceits of the period love story, much of it set just before World War II in the railway station where the furtive lovers meet.

Broadway's fine British imports: 'Brief Encounter,' 'Pitmen Painters' Peter Marks 2010

My tent was getting smaller and stuffier by the second.

THE BOYS FROM SANTA CRUZ Jonathan Nasaw 2010

Using however where but (or though, although, yet or still) would do the job can make a sentence slower and stuffier.

How to use a semicolon 2008

Using however where but (or though, although, yet or still) would do the job can make a sentence slower and stuffier.

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Their inventive compositions were looser than the stiff, stuffier studio portraits of the 50s.

Brian Duffy obituary Eamonn McCabe 2010