| But Ibsen himself thought her brave and true to her exceptional self, straining against the suffocation of modern life. |
| We went up a flight of stairs crammed to suffocation by people eagerly waiting for the hall doors to open. |
| Examples of abuse include punches, kicks, blows and partial suffocation by placing a rubber gas mask over the person's face. |
| Like a man in a diving bell whose air supply has been cut off, my mind leapt between bouts of panic and thoughts of suffocation. |
| Citizens found themselves squeezed to suffocation in one way or another between domestic repression and exogenous vilification. |
| But the need to break clear from the suffocation of reverent togetherness is not just a matter of philosophical self-respect. |
