Despite overall negative reviews, Andy Webster of " The New York Times " described Pinto and Kebede as " refreshing " and praised their " independent presences amid the stiflingly male-dominated milieu ".
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Holly Cheever, a veterinarian and consultant with the ASPCA from 1988 to 1994 whose duties included inspecting the stables, said the conditions of the stables were narrow, dirty, and stiflingly hot in the summer months.
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Crowds of sweaty men in shirt sleeves, toting briefcases, gym bags and cell phones, rush down the railroad platform as a lumbering locomotive drags their homebound train into a Moscow station on a stiflingly hot Friday night.
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"It's a terrible tragedy, " said Brown, who said there were no apparent signs of violence, that the windows were closed and that the one-bedroom flat was stiflingly hot when officials went in.
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When Rob Edinger's boss at Warner-Lambert Co . decided to send him to Austin for Dell Computer Corp .'s DirectConnect trade show, the computer technician pictured a respite from New Jersey's stiflingly hot summer.
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Voldemort orphaned Harry by slaying both of his parents, and Harry had no idea he was magical until his first year at Hogwarts, having lived most of his life in the stiflingly unhappy home of his Muggle foster parents, the Dursleys.
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The place smells like mushrooms but is stiflingly hot, as far from the glamour of Noel Coward's " Design for Living "-- whose set designer, Hugh Landwehr, she is assisting this summer-- as can be imagined.
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Proclaimed " a monument to the future " by no less a figure than Nelson Mandela, the movie, directed by Darrell James Roodt, is an exercise in solemn uplift that is touching despite an atmosphere that at moments becomes stiflingly reverential.
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In other films that might be a corny copout, but here it works, Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, in " an exercise in solemn uplift that is touching despite an atmosphere that at moments becomes stiflingly reverential ."
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And as soon as we've seen a little of his stiflingly possessive mother, Kate, played with droll, blowzy obliviousness by Deborah Harry, it removes any mystery about why her grown but retrograde son should experience the difficulty with women that he does.
