Broad where the fit was cut slimmest, the Mad Prophet saw no humor in the prospect of being squeezed into slow suffocation.

Six marble-sized stones had been stuffed down his throat, causing slow suffocation.

A slow and painful suffocation.

I closed my eyes briefly, imagining the pain, the dislocation of the shoulders, the slow suffocation, the terrible humiliation. "

But when her thoughts turned to touching that inner light, and she couldn't, it felt like a slow suffocation of the mind.

Their violence is merely more apparent than your slow suffocation of human potential.

But his comrades were dead, by the most horrible means O'Brien could imagine: slow suffocation as the atmospheric pressure plummeted.

Lying down was slow suffocation; he slept in a chair.

I dreaded being back in Chicago, or Memphis, wherever - the stasis, the slow suffocation of accumulation.

Detroit's defense is more like watching a slow suffocation with a satin pillow.