The host of the services, Nefesh, maintains a fluid “come as you are” attitude, unlike the stuffy atmosphere of my youth temple.

Clichés raced through my head: Would she be stuffy or old-fashioned?

By contrast, the movie's fictional YouTubers and amateur storm chasers are overwhelmingly shown as idealistic, compassionate, colorful and far more knowledgeable about science that those stuffy official scientists.

In conventional times, dramaturgy can seem to be an arcane, even slightly stuffy field.

It was part of a more approachable, less stuffy persona than that conveyed by other ambassadors.