He was feeling bitter disappointment, as if he had opened a door out of a suffocating place and had found it walled up; but he also felt sure that Rosamond was pleased with the cause of his disappointment.
Her heart, which had seemed to stop beating, was suffocating her now, the way it raced along.
By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the sermon had come to a dead standstill.
suffocating.
And best of all, they stopped suffocating us with their exaggerated empathy, their slow head shaking, their tsk tsks, their "Oh gung bichara.
But since a suffocating heat wave descended on Karachi three days ago, killing at least 650 people, they have found no respite and no escape.
The pressure these people's parents apply can be suffocating.
But in the meantime he will have to do something about the lost credit cards-call home, have his wife get the numbers out of the top desk drawer, phone the card companies-so difficult a process, the whole thing suffocating.
