I was threatened with the noose nearly every day for three months.
The play is, as is frequently pointed out, flawlessly constructed - there is not a wasted word, and every scene tightens the noose around Nora's neck.
Every dummy had a noose looped around its neck, with the remaining length of rope coiled around the students' arms.
There is a lamppost and noose waiting for every jihadi that comes back to Britain and their scum enablers and sympathizers.
The same goes for these pieces, which are mostly reworked articles from his day job, ranging from Björk to Brahms, and Radiohead to Verdi.Mr Ross is surely correct, though, that "every art form fights the noose of verbal description"; there is nothing uniquely ineffable about music.
As Max undertakes a series of secret quests to clear Marianne's name, yielding some unexpected collateral damage, the film patiently underscores his sense of a noose tightening with every minute, even if it's not around his own neck.
The pro-Russia fighters attack the village every day, hoping to tighten the noose around the airport and compel its defenders to give up.
Every so often he bursts into song, easing the noose of his unrelenting and smugly clever monologues, invariably declaimed in plummy, self-satisfied tones.
But outside Slovyansk, troops from the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, army and national guard were tightening a noose around the town, manning checkpoints on every road going in and out of the city, searching vehicles and demanding to see the papers of every driver and passenger.
