41. However he found the conventional Catholic education narrow and stultifying and resolved to open his own school. 42. But when I engaged in a creative re-evaluation of modernism, I found it rather stultifying . 43. After a third of a century of stultifying Capitol Hill confinement, Bob Dole has finally been freed. 44. Vitaliano's 15 years in the stultifying assembly may be too much seasoning of the wrong sort. 45. It's precisely the stultifying nature of much corporate learning that has made using games so appealing. 46. And given that the Yankees win pennants with stultifying regularity, it was probably due to happen sooner. 47. Compared with these incidents, the main reaction to Eminem's unfiltered rants has been stultifying silence. 48. For a nation known for the stultifying rote learning of its state education, those were rare scenes. 49. Editor Jonathan Lethem described the upcoming publications as " absolutely stultifying , brilliant, repetitive, and contradictory. 50. He eventually gives up the now stultifying memory of his dead wife and arrives at a new beginning.