I was released onto the street, relieved of the crushing weight of a single plastic card.
To varying degrees, the women remain unaware of the crushing poverty and unemployment surrounding them.
The weight of the crushing expectations placed upon her seemed to sap the joy out of the game for her.
The movie will stand up as a significant marker of the crushing American dilemma of overconsumption and underproduction.
Her first outburst, on Tuesday, occurred when a medical examiner gave details of the crushing injuries her husband had suffered.
Life aboard the ship became very still, in the distance the sound just of the crushing ice.
The despondency of educated Chinese youth in the wake of the crushing of the Tiananmen Square protests nearly 15 years ago has given way to enormous optimism.
They are sweaty and sloppy, and in the "Danse Sacrale" they convey something of the crushing force and tension that take the victim's life.
Iranians might soon have a chance to enjoy the fruits of an improved economy and better relations with the world, relieved of the crushing burden of sanctions.
June 4th next year will be the 20th anniversary of the crushing of Tiananmen's more famous protests, in 1989, in which thousands may have died.
He talked of the crushing effect of English "and the cultural industries of the United States and how it is humiliating many other cultures and languages".
