Skinny and quick, with long, bony arms and twitchy reflexes, he could be a suffocating presence at the net.
But when her big serve is clicking, as it was in the latter stages against Safarova, she can be a suffocating opponent.
But as Joe Girardi may find out as he tries to replace Torre with the Yankees, successor to a legend can be a suffocating job.
The result can be a suffocating narcissism, a lack of interest in the kind of extrapolation and exploration that is necessary to both mathematics and literature.
It's a suffocating society.
It is a suffocating existence, but today everyone is happy.
Occasionally there is a suffocating whiff of blood.
In some of the most gripping sequences what you hear mostly is a suffocating silence.
The official People's Daily says the city's air pollution is a "suffocating siege" that must be urgently addressed.
There was a suffocating sense of despair hanging over the Kuwait meeting as the Gaza crisis eclipsed every other issue.
