Sometimes that heat became suffocating, and feels so even at one remove.
Favre was reflective, saying he heard so much talk last week about the Ravens' defense that it became suffocating.
For women, especially those who were injured, their lives back home became suffocating and lonely.
When the shed became suffocating too, she left her job, got rid of her phone, and set off to live with the Inuit near the North Pole and the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert.
When an argument over the level of care seems to cause Razieh to miscarry, all parties become suffocated in a legal case.
'In some ways that's liberating, but at the same time it's as if we've become suffocated by choice: we have nothing to complain about and nothing left to fight for.
Composed in 1993 as a memorial to Holliger's teacher Sándor Veress, the work is a powerfully sustained 15-minute elegy, driven by a writhing, angry melodic line that sometimes unravels into multiple voices or becomes suffocated by decorative detail, heaves itself up to a huge climax, and finally evaporates in constellations of harmonics.
But we must also acknowledge this form of mobility comes at a premium, as polar ice melts, megacities become suffocated by smog and congestion, resources dwindle, and around 1.2 million people get killed in traffic accidents globally every year.
"I am one of those youth who has become suffocated with life in Libya," he said.
Teacher: Sometimes you have to run the classes so strictly that the pupils are about to become suffocated.
