Sentence examples for sense of suffocation from inspiring English sources

The sense of suffocation extends to his personal life, too.

"I feel a sense of suffocation," he said.

Most Gazans are unable to travel even for emergency medical care outside the narrow boundaries of the Strip, generating a sense of suffocation and despair.

She doesn't need to show us every detail of Helen's honeymoon or home life to make us understand her sense of suffocation.

He said he saw intelligence reports saying that waterboarding, a technique that induces a sense of suffocation, had caused Abu Zubaydah to start talking after 35 seconds.

The London it evokes is expansive to begin with, but gradually becomes more claustrophobic and seemingly unsafe as the characters' sense of suffocation intensifies.

The restless Gaillard grew up in San Francisco and his native Paris, where a keen sense of "cultural suffocation" drove him to seek more exotic locales.

I use this concept of affective asphyxia to theorize the ways that black emotional expression is heavily policed, producing a sense of emotional suffocation, whether self-imposed or externally inflicted.

Overcome by "an instant sense of panic and suffocation," she feels as though she were "the only true nomad".

That would be the sense that they are trapped and thwarted to the point of suffocation.

In the absence of a palpable sense of claustrophobia and constraint, of the suffocation that makes transformation urgent, the play loses texture and energy.