The man kindled it and in the next moments the fresh and sweet air fulfilled with deep and suffocating smoke and scent of burning flesh. |
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The film's grainy, bleak look is joined to suffocating dramatic situations in which the actors emote without restraint. |
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Economics risks suffocating architecture, but so does polite conservatism and a consumerist attitude. |
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Kids today are rarely allowed to follow their imaginations outdoors without close, almost suffocating, supervision. |
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With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery. |
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Then black smoke and heat coiled around him in a thick, suffocating cloud until he choked and woke to the world. |
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It's trying at times, almost suffocating, but I appreciate what our security staff and law enforcement do for us. |
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He threw himself back in suffocating agony and began to claw desperately at his throat. |
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At room temperature, formaldehyde is an extremely reactive colorless gas with a suffocating odor. |
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Use of a wet towel or dripping water to induce a perception of suffocating. |
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Few people like to cause offence, particularly in business, which suffers from a suffocating politeness. |
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She looked down at Spitz whose respiration was so ragged that she sounded like she was suffocating slowly. |
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Arm outstretched hopelessly, I stand trying to flag down packed, battered buses as they groan past, belching suffocating fumes. |
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The fifties were free and easy if you endorsed the status quo, but repressive and suffocating if you did not. |
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But we do not need an inflexible, suffocating and largely unaccountable institution which dictates every aspect of our lives. |
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Tom is a quick-witted, but self-absorbed fantasiser who, due to the suffocating mall atmosphere, is beginning to hallucinate. |
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The thinner air tricks your body into thinking it is suffocating, and so you wake up periodically gasping desperately for breath. |
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The courtyard was completely silent, as it had been earlier, but now the silence seemed oppressive, suffocating. |
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Drenched in sweat, they are prostrated by fatigue, breathless in the suffocating heat. |
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In the winter dampness, the smell of the mule dung and the mangoes was suffocating. |
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When Logan got off the plane he was completely stifled by the suffocating heat of Michigan. |
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By the 1980s, political life was suffocating and the political system had ossified. |
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About ten people a year in the UK die from suffocating after having an allergic reaction to something they ate. |
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The loneliness that had been pervading my life and slowly suffocating me was now lifting, and I could breathe freely again. |
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One gruesome scene is shot behind an oppressive red filter, visually suffocating the viewer. |
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The air inside the pub was dense and suffocating, thick with sweat and laughter, jolliness engulfing and eating away at everything in the room. |
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Sometimes she would wake at night unable to breathe, terrified she was suffocating. |
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We had gone a good distance on a dimly lit road when a strong, foul and suffocating odour swarmed into and around our car. |
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More than just unpleasant, the obnoxious smell was stifling and suffocating. |
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The muggy, early-September night had descended on the suburban neighborhood, suffocating and heavy. |
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The pregnant silence is almost eerie as it spreads round the room, reaching every corner, suffocating me as I inhale its intoxicating deadliness. |
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She shivered as their chilled breath filled the air, suffocating her with its putrid weight. |
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The climbers reach the peak after much struggle, but as they make their way back down, the weather closes in with suffocating intensity. |
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To complete the whole, the windows were all closed and the air suffocating. |
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In the opinion of these writers, sleepers in stuffy rooms were slowly suffocating in a toxic fog of their own breath, sweat, and flatulence. |
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Their stench was suffocating at close range, and the ground trembled beneath each thunderous footstep. |
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Exhaust fumes from cars and factories make for a toxic, suffocating smog that hangs over the city. |
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Okay, I was on the brink of suffocating, and here they were fighting over who was going to give me mouth-to-mouth. |
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It felt like I was suffocating, like someone had taken a firm grasp around my throat and wasn't thinking about letting go anytime soon. |
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She tried to cry out as twisted metal and glass bit into her back, but his weight was suffocating. |
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If we do seal our houses up, mightn't we run the risk of suffocating like a forgotten dime store goldfish? |
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Due to awkward sexual awakenings and a suffocating family life, Rita is a ticking time-bomb. |
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It engulfs its prey by encasing it in a suffocating plasma-like substance. |
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Yes, the country would still have to reschedule its suffocating debt. |
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He questions old saws with irreverence, humour, and flintiness, unencumbered by our proverbial politeness and our suffocating political correctness. |
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History in the novel is a palpable presence, and presses down on the present with suffocating force. |
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In other words, he used common sense to deconstruct rhetorical falsehoods, pulling apart the suffocating mesh of collectivist lies one carefully observed thread at a time. |
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Don't use too big a container because the compost may waterlog, suffocating the roots. |
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In summer, blue crabs, eels and juvenile flounder — all bottom fish — rise to the surface, eventually suffocating in oxygen-depleted waters. |
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The sizzling weather suffocating much of the country is also noteworthy for its extraordinary mugginess. |
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But it is a suffocating embrace, less concerned with fostering Abkhazian independence than with ensuring Russia's own prominence. |
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After the break, as the suffocating tropical heat and humidity hung heavy over the stadium, there came three more goals. |
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The fresh air of free thought that had swept through Beijing was gone, leaving behind a suffocating atmosphere. |
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Squeezed into a suffocating cattle car for three nightmarish days, I nursed Sandor and also the baby of a friend whose milk had dried up. |
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There are no perspiring throngs of Brits packing suffocating beaches. |
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The Maastricht indicators are so suffocating, it is as if we were giving a glass of water to a person whose neck we have put in a noose. |
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He tries to guess which players can handle the scrutiny of New York, knowing that it can be suffocating. |
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The government's small-mindedness is suffocating and it's lack of imagination palpable. |
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But the ECB will not start buying bonds to bring down the borrowing costs that are suffocating Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland. |
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A revision of the bankruptcy law has helped to resolve some of the country's suffocating corporate debt. |
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Weber felt that these intellectuals were suffocating the possibilities of more liberal thought within the academy. |
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This is absolutely necessary because the way of life imposed by certain universes is suffocating. |
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The weather conditions: just because it's much less funny to ride under heavy rain of suffocating heat. |
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So universally accepted were these notions that they became suffocating. |
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Smoke hung thickly all around, like a dense fog, only more suffocating. |
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And in her final years, when she was blinded by macular degeneration and suffocating with emphysema, vanity left her isolated. |
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Well, about as happy-go-lucky a track as a track about the suffocating pressures of marriage and family can be. |
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Every issue has a cluster of stories that vary wildly in style and tone, from maundering musings to cold silence, from freehand swirls to suffocating realism. |
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I'd anticipated him working inside a Back-To-The-Future kind of laboratory with bubbling beakers, coiled yellow electrical wire, and a suffocating sense of disarray. |
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A suffocating silence filled the sustainer Theater on LSA Anaconda in Iraq. |
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The trip was uneventful as he was used to the drowning sounds of the crowd, the beeping horns of vehicles and cell-phones, to the suffocating smoggy air. |
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Although Paulette is suffocating under his egotism, there is a great scene in which she watches the great man at work and is entranced by his handiness with a brush and paint. |
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Many prisoners, suffocating under the oppressive heat, fainted. |
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By presuming that no intelligent political life exists outside their hermetic space, the party ensured that theirs will be a small and suffocating house. |
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His legs had become trapped and the equipment was suffocating him. |
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Each small change is difficult to argue against but the overall effect is suffocating for the people we then expect to provide a decent public service. |
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Although, the holes in the watery Wicklow defence were initially plugged, the problem of their inability to create scoreable chances was still suffocating their performance. |
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He felt like he was suffocating under his father's oppression. |
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In her work she constructs a world that is airless and suffocating. |
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One gets the sense that he finds the Western episteme constraining, if not suffocating, in its insistence upon the ideological hold and closure of meaning. |
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You will remember that we accidentally killed the original tree, a sumach, by suffocating the roots with a mixture of rotting logs and sunflower husks. |
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Her small purse draped over her right shoulder, her light blue shirt hugged at her slender figure and her jeans looked like they were suffocating her legs. |
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Perhaps there are men or women of secret visionary ability in there, suffocating beneath the weight of mediocre debate and petty parochial feuding. |
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His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth. |
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The further I sunk into that hole, the deeper I went into my dreamworld, until I felt as if I was suffocating, maybe drowning, and I tried to wake myself. |
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The campaigners dream of a mass march through Gaza's crossings to break free of the suffocating siege and of replanting the farmland that has been turned into a wasteland. |
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The aileron control of the aircraft was affected and the windscreen de-icing glycol tank burst, drenching Pilot Officer R. J. Hayhurst, the bomb aimer, and filling the forward part of the bomber with suffocating fumes. |
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She remembered her terrible foredream of the sack of Turbansk and felt a suffocating despair rising in her breast. |
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Sometimes that heat became suffocating, and feels so even at one remove. |
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We have no idea of how the pair met, their early lives or how their family and friends view this suffocating fakey friendship. |
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The crowning touch is the abundance of new directives proposed in the report, many of which put a suffocating blanket over entrepreneurs, as a result of which they can no longer get round to running their businesses. |
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Without the air conditioning system working, the plane was quickly becoming a suffocating den of hot, recycled, overbreathed air. |
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Recently, the World Bank's report revealed that the pervasive corruption, a suffocating bureaucracy and weak law enforcement are crippling the growth of private business, rending them uncompetitive globally economy. |
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All equity and commodity markets are hanging on the next tidbit of news on the China monetary policy and the European Union as it grapples with its suffocating debt issues. |
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He looks down at his hands, feels the briefest twitch in his right arm, a wave and it spasms, smashes unfeelingly against the inside of the boat and goes dead again, falls against his side, a fish flicking after suffocating. |
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But where the creation of a monopoly would seriously risk suffocating competition in the Community with no counterbalance from outside, then we would take the opposite view. |
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In this case, a non-toxic alga became so densely concentrated that it depleted the oxygen in the water, thereby suffocating both fish and invertebrates. |
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The large ceiling fans vertiginously positioned on the high ceilings are relayed with the air conditioning system to make you forget the suffocating summer on lushly covered silk sofas. |
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The train moved on again, keeping us prisoners in a stench-filled car, starving, suffocating, insensated. |
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Olivier was tiring of Leigh's suffocating adulation, and she was drinking to excess. |
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Algal blooms will ultimately sink and be decomposed by bacteria in a process that consumes oxygen in deeper waters, sometimes suffocating aquatic organisms. |
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Further, the situation on the ground has continued to deteriorate owing to Israel's continued imposition of its illegal, unethical and suffocating blockade. |
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Good, hardworking people whose aspirations of building and sustaining a business in Saskatchewan are being impeded by a gloomy economic reality that is suffocating economic development and opportunity in the province. |
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My condemnation, as the hon. member has mentioned, is of the intolerable regime in Iran that in fact is suffocating and repressing its own people. |
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His father, Chehata Bey, was a typical patriarch and his mother took care of her eight children with anoriental tenderness that wassomewhat suffocating. |
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Unlike last year, this Rams squad lived by defense, its identity formed by a suffocating press and swingman Bradford Burgess, the team's lone senior. |
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We are trying to extinguish a fire and are suffocating in the smoke. |
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If she shows the mill as a closed place, suffocating in an inhuman mechanical monstrousness, it is only to bring together those who work and live there day after day. |
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Under the suffocating martial law, exit and entry points are closed tight. |
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In the mines, men toil in humidity that is almost suffocating. |
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These are catacomb-like performance spaces underneath Waterloo Station, and they exhale a suffocating clamminess that felt just right for O'Neill's portraits of stir-crazy sailors, trapped in close quarters in ships. |
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Through the haze of hairspray, the jungle of permed hair and the suffocating corsetry of ultra-tight jeans, it can be hard to remember that there were some good things about the Eighties. |
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The adaptors present the proceedings with an ingeniously involuted double-framework of commuter storytelling and a suffocating Fifties atmosphere of strangulated gentility. |
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There's also the issue of Park, weary from an 81-degree day, though the temperature wasn't reflective of the mugginess brought on by the suffocating humidity. |
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Dawish also notes the Lebanese political system, despite numerous shortcomings, is far from the suffocating authoritarianism found in many other Arab states. |
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