Cardiff scored to equalise, then for nearly two hours the ball hit our bar, our post, went just over, just wide, and probably just under, until all our nerves and organs were reduced to gibbering mush.
In one antediluvian contraption, men at the surface pumped air into the diver's suit, but when they or the compressor failed, "if he was deep enough, the diver's body would be squeezed up into his helmet" and reduced to "a bloody blob of mush".
Sophie is eventually reduced to living with a grandmother who serves "carrot pennies smothered in lo-cal dressing... the baked potato a shiny sack of mush".
As they cook, the leaves have the shrinking properties of spinach, quickly reducing to a green mush.
A good performance of the suite from his wistful score for "Our Town," the 1940 film adaptation of the Thornton Wilder play, can reduce me to mush.
It is hard to believe that such a delicate thing can rise from the stink of mud, but over the summer it does so repeatedly, each flower lasting several days before it sinks back in on itself in a death throe that reduces it to mush in no time.
The broth should be simmering, enough to cook vegetables that are hard, without reducing them to mush.
Earlier this season, she was Hermia in TFANA's Julie Nightr-directed Midsummer Night's Dream and reduced her speeches to mush.
It is fairly obvious that grandmotherhood has softened Ms. Roitfeld, she of the smudgy eyeliner, the haphazard hair and the look that could reduce a competitor to mush.
When our cells freeze, they fill with ice crystals, which break down cell walls as they expand, reducing our body to mush once it is warmed up again.
