The suited waiters looked bored to the point of suffocation, but I was in paradise as I bit into a deeply flavorful and moist chicken kebab (given excellent zip from a white garlic sauce), accompanied by super-smooth hummus topped by pine nuts and tiny pellets of grilled meat.
I was so worried about sudden infant death syndrome and suffocation that I would have nightmares about it or lie awake at night because of it.
Waterboarding, admittedly the most serious of the methods, is designed, according to Jay Bybee, to induce the perception of "suffocation and incipient panic, i.e. the perception of drowning".
I had come from a paralyzed background — the suffocation of that family: I was not acting".
"I tried to get out through the stairs initially, but I figured I'd die of suffocation.
While I still suffer from intermittent suffocation, my overall functioning has improved, and I am able finally to sleep more deeply most nights.
What I feared was suffocation, particularly the inability to make my chest expand.
Third and, I think, biggest: suffocation of the economy.
I really wanted the yolk raised, but then I realized it was a suffocation hazard.
