Every small new government program puts us on the slippery slope toward a smothering nanny state.
Eager to see a production of "The Silver Cord," Sidney Howard's 1926 potboiler about a smothering mother?
The Liberty (13-9) used a smothering fullcourt press in the first half to build a 19-point lead before holding off a late Indiana rally.
They showcased an unusually deep and productive lineup, and employed a smothering defense to lock down one of the nation's top scoring tandems.
The jacket was a smothering embrace, like a marsupial pouch I was born into and had no desire to crawl out of.
Let it die there in the grass while the boy sucks oxygen and his mother leans over him like a smothering blanket.
As an index of damage - inflicted by a smothering mother who was still bottle-feeding Pippa when she was 16 years old - this is both accurate and disturbing.
With a smothering defense and a patient offense, the Giants won their third consecutive game, taking an early lead against the outmanned Detroit Lions, and holding on for a 28-20 victory.
All those furnace-stoked, sweat-streaked days — a smothering gauntlet of triple digits that strained thermometers, primed wildfires, aggravated droughts and stripped away all the fun of one summer afternoon after another.
Most of the games against the Packers unfolded like Sunday's, with Green Bay beating the Bears, 21-14, behind a perfectly balanced offense, a smothering defense and Chicago ineptitude.
Actually, I'm going to give into the temptation – Apple takes a smothering mother role to the iPhone, and rejecting an app like iSinglePayer is more evidence of that.
