Ann Wilson

Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.

American Musician

John Avlon

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

Writer

Vicky Krieps

Whenever money is in the game, it can suffocate anything and anyone else, and I think people have been misled by money, or the dream of money, or selling the dream that if you've made it money-wise, you've made a life. Which is a lie. You don't get happiness by money.

Luxembourger Actress

Santiago Calatrava

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

Spanish Architect

Janine di Giovanni

For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too.

American Journalist

Bradley Whitford

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

American Actor

Howard Barker

We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets.

British Playwright

Francois Hollande

When I travel officially... and when I travel on a private basis, I have protection that is less suffocating. But I am protected everywhere.

French Statesman

Tyler Joseph

Insecurity, for me, feels like the sensation of suffocating.

Sudeep

Indian Actor

Used to express a life-threatening situation due to lack of air.

Physical Danger

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe an overwhelming feeling.

Metaphorically Speaking

Highlights extreme conditions that make breathing difficult.

Intensity Emphasis

Describes a setting or situation that makes one claustrophobic or very uncomfortable.

Emotional Overwhelm

Often used to exaggerate discomfort in unpleasant environments.

Exaggeration

Not actually dying, just feeling very hot and restricted.

Avoid Literal Use

Speaks to the effort of holding back strong emotions or thoughts.

Emotionally Taxing

Can mean the suppression of one’s desires due to societal expectations.

Social Pressure

 this really enables that the cheetah to have a very lightweight head which you can see that marvelous moment in the footage which is keeping it very fixed on the preys you couldn't do that with an overweight and so having expanded nasal cavities here actually helps while she's suffocating the prey to be able to

The Science of a...

 and it may be linked to sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, many who experience an episode of sleep paralysis do so infrequently, perhaps only once in a lifetime. So you can rest easy, knowing that an evil entity is not trying to haunt, possess, strangle, or suffocate you.

The terrors of sleep...

 There's an intensity of affection and emotion, a rush. It feels really good. You feel so lucky, like you've hit the jackpot. But in unhealthy love, these feelings shift over time from exciting to overwhelming and maybe a little bit suffocating. You feel it in your gut.

The difference between...

 This is what constricting means. If you see me starting to go blue or purple in the face, then I might need a little bit of help. Constricting basically means to strangle, to suffocate the life out of prey, and that's how this magnificent animal

Strangled by a Boa...

 that I was not outlier but pioneer like Maya Angelou who knew quiet like a caged bird I'd not sing in the wake of trauma its wings heavy with the weight of grief this is what we call reactive mutism when a painful experience suffocates the

Using poetry as a way to...

 They have been shot to death. They have been stomped to death. They have been suffocated to death. They have been manhandled to death. They have been tasered to death. They've been killed when they've called for help.

The urgency of...

 least once during the season so it's important that the eggs should be waterproof and indeed a swan's egg has an outer layer that waterproofs it without suffocating the chick

Nature's First Line of...

 magnificent creatures have any defense against the natural forces that are suffocating their world

The Dinosaur's Fight for...

 it's mouth envelops and suffocates the earth world

Suffocate