Although the movie has a plot, that story is half-smothered under the tonnage of pop trivia.
Carolyn's ruby-red beef rump steak was half-smothered in bearnaise sauce, like a cream duvet over a burns patient.
In a jungle of untended vegetation that seems almost tropical, ruined tombs and mausoleums appear in the foliage, half-smothered by vines.
Both groups, Glück suggests, actually have quite specific cases to prosecute: our personal arrangements, like whose body goes on top during sex and which flower is chosen to "light the yard," derive from convention, but someone, in the process, gets silenced and half-smothered.
They were caged in glass boxes or padded cells; half smothered or drowned; masked; tethered; tightly laced; straitjacketed; and forced to walk in perilous "armadillo" booties, with ten-inch heels.
Across the capital on Thursday, an artist raised his two bandaged hands in the air and let out a sound that was half sob, half roar.
A half-choked sob escaped from Ms. Spacek.
At his first dwarf convention, the author hears a teenager half-sobbing, half-laughing.
"Close your eyes, please," he half-whispers, half-sobs to Virginia, before bawling and shaking like a scared kid.
"I think Nightbreed gave me a nightmare," I half-sobbed.
No, I first encountered a chili-and-cheese-smothered "half-smoke" on the streets of the District, back when downtown was still dominated by vendors working out of tiny tin boxes.
