Word: smothering
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...simply inhale as slowly as I possibly can -until I feel that I will smother in the process from lack of oxygen-then exhale in the same manner, very, very slowly. I can do this a couple of times and my hiccups are gone...
...this change of mind that becomes the central development of the novel. Ironically, it is the princess who has given him a taste for the culture that revolution would destroy. In the end, he sees the princess give herself to his best anarchist friend. Overwhelmed by the ironies that smother him, Hyacinth commits suicide with the bullet that was meant for the duke...
...unsolaced by Athenian cafés. A motley collection of uprooted folk, they had no status quo to preserve, no hopes to lose. Consequently they fought as desperate men. Their mission was akin to that of Communists everywhere: to uproot their countrymen, to spread despair, to kill hope, to smother enterprise, to prevent the sowing of crops, until even the tyranny of Communism would seem by comparison a haven...
...Capote'-at this minute the words are resounding on many a sixtieth floor, and 'get him' of course means make him and break him, smother him with laurels and then vent on him the obscure hatred which is inherent in the notion of another's superiority...
Heavy vacation snowfall did not smother construction on the now Lamont Library, as laborers plowed through drifts and slush to keep building on schedule...