The atmosphere is much like the curio library of a victorian gentleman scholar , full of elegant glass-and-wood vitrines , dimly ornate wall coverings , velvet curtains and engagingly stuffy wall-text .
They needed to sit down together , no matter how stuffy it got in the living room , no matter how loudly the radiators hissed and banged , and take turns speaking their minds .
他们需要的是,不管客厅里有多闷,不理散热器发出的嘶嘶砰砰声有多吵,都坐到一起,轮流说出自己的心声。
I am not against this development : I like facebook , I like twitter , I like youtube and the way the online environment 's relative irreverence has seeped into newsrooms and companies and made them a bit less stuffy .
If an ad like this found both " to whom you should be talking " and " whom you should be talking to " too stuffy , and couldn 't be bothered to re-word to avoid the problem , then " whom " may be in real retreat .
The chimpom artists have received scant coverage in the stuffy arts pages of the national newspapers ; mostly they are treated as part of a delinquent fringe .
Richard branson entered the hyper-competitive airline business by launching virgin airlines when he discovered there was a group of customers who wanted good but unpretentious service yet weren 't getting it from stuffy british airways .