Sentence examples for suffocating effects from inspiring English sources

Thornton can also relate to the suffocating effects of onerous debt and looming joblessness.

The second drug, pancuronium bromide, paralyzes the muscles with suffocating effect.

Scientists say the chief danger from the Norway maple (Acer platanoides) is the suffocating effect it has on the plants below.

Sicha successfully renders, like nobody else I've ever read, the suffocating psychic effects of debt, pervasive in the way a chronic disease or a guilty conscience or a terrible secret is pervasive: thought-infecting, decision-changing, life-defining — as society-altering as conscription.

Perhaps this is meant to highlight the suffocating effect of the terrible events in the story, but the reader is just as likely to feel suffocated by the plodding style that Littell uses.

And both are well acquainted with the adverse effects of suffocating debt.

Salman Rushdie was our canary in the coal mine: He first felt the effects of suffocating gasses that would start to envelope us all.

I was so starved and craving that human warmth, but my every relationship to the outside world felt unbearably hollow, and the withdrawal effects were suffocating.

The effect was suffocating, and it reflected an attitude of disrespect toward Rudolph that persisted until his death in 1997.

The effect was both suffocating and intoxicating.

"It's never been like 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' " said Jessica Gold, referring to the television show that uses suffocating family ties for comic effect: Raymond's parents live across the street from him and are constantly barging in unannounced.