Here was a classic matchup between two great N.F.L. franchises with a history, yet the spurts of action seemed squeezed between visions of the apocalypse.
But as is often the case when novels are translated to the stage, the narrative seemed squeezed and superficial, cramped by the necessity of wrapping things up in the allotted time.
With or without Nadal involved, Murray, Djokovic, Roddick and del Potro are consensus contestants for the non-Federer spots, and the dark horse Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and the former contender Nikolay Davydenko seem squeezed out.
The rain intensified yet one more notch; the Fred F. French Building developed a positively livid stain along its bricks and the scene seemed squeezed so tight that it yielded the essence of granite, the very idea of a city.
Isaac sits cross-legged on a tree stump, wearing an expression so serious that his features seem squeezed into a single dot at the center of his bald head.
The fleshy and ever swelling neck seems jammed, squeezed into that throttling cravat.
The player who, in large part, helped salvage the Jets' 1999 season, going 6-2 in eight starts after Testaverde was hurt on opening day and Rick Mirer proved to be ineffective, is now, it seems, being squeezed out as the Jets' heir apparent.
The lens seems to squeeze the image so that on the film itself figures appear tall and thin.
