Sentence examples for and the suffocation of from inspiring English sources

There are familiar Harrower themes: the casual entitlements of wealth; the everyday humiliations of poverty; people who notice things and those who look past; and the suffocation of suburban marriage, particularly for women.

Police could have prevented the death of Nickell, a former model from south-west London, and 16 months later the killing and mutilation of Samantha Bissett, 27, and the suffocation of her four-year-old child, Jazmine.

She tells the depressed and credulous Mister Stanley that she left Albania because of a blood feud involving her cousin George, a blood feud that involved a bride kidnapping and the suffocation of a couple in a cave.

Since arriving in Cairo in January 2013, he has uncovered several instances of state crimes, including systematic torture inside a secret military jail, the massacre of over 50 protesters at a sit-in, and the suffocation of 37 prisoners inside a police truck.

Had they pursued the opportunities they could have prevented the death of Nickell, a former model from south-west London, and 16 months later the killing and mutilation of Samantha Bissett, 27, and the suffocation of her four-year-old child, Jazmine.

His critics predict stagnation, more corruption and the suffocation of democracy.

Their cages were neither gilded nor particularly benign, and thus the suffocation of freedom was more evident to them and us.

Having glimpsed the dead end of her graduate studies and felt the suffocation of her clingy would-be boyfriend, Todd (the funny scene-stealer Vandit Bhatt), Penny on a whim joins a three-month cross-country cycling trip from Boston to California.

"Wahhabism exalts and promotes death in every element of its existence, the suicide of its adherents, mass murder as a weapon against civilization, and above all the suffocation of the mercy embodied in Islam," Mr. Schwartz writes.

He becomes a sign-writer and then a news reporter, and does battle with the suffocation of Hindu family life, only to end his days deeply in debt in a jerry-built house sold to him by an entrepreneur of the new Trinidad.

His writing always has a distinctive, flat rigour, and here he matches the suffocation of the lives he describes with a slyly deadened prose.