Sentence examples for suffocating setting from inspiring English sources

This syntax at first seems affected, but it comes to feel apt, giving the descriptions immediacy and reflecting the static, suffocating setting.

It starts with Asylum, a far more claustrophobic and suffocating setting than its successors, but one that remains incredibly unique.

They grapple with life's worth in a suffocating setting -- white picket fence suburbia (American Beauty), a paralyzing "locked-in syndrome" (Diving Bell) or homophobia in early 1960s America (A Single Man).

The prairie dogs had been poisoned, shot, suffocated, and set on fire to make way for Euro-American civilization.

Under questioning by the police, the firefighter admitted suffocating his wife and setting fire to his own house.

As the suffocating April heat sets in just past 3 PM, Santos is in and out of sleep.

An estimated 855 refugees were killed, including 200 crammed inside a cave and suffocated by fires set off by air attacks; 100 huddled on a beach and shelled by an American ship; and 35 attacked by American aircraft in Kyongju, a town behind the lines in the south.

The discovery of at least 35 bodies on the gaming floor, apparently suffocated in fires set by the marauding gunman, transforms the nightmare into a catastrophe.

There is much in the life of the blues icon Bessie Smith that has the makings of potent drama: racism, domestic violence, alcoholism, bisexuality, all set against the suffocating backdrop of a largely segregated America in the Prohibition and Depression eras.

A giant sand-dune of debt, worth at least $100 billion, looked set to suffocate the shiny city-state.

The youngest child, nine months old, suffocated when the killers set the house alight.Terrible murders can happen in any country.