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The resultant film, with its themes of both suppression and oppression, feels chokingly claustrophobic.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2022
Kurita originally envisioned emojis as a workaround for cellphone users to deploy rudimentary graphics despite the chokingly slow connection speeds of the era.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2015
The sky was dark purple and stormy, the pollution was chokingly thick.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2015
Mr. Anderson has condensed the book with surgical precision, ditching certain subplots, characters and locales while retaining the novel’s sociopolitical tug, barbed asides and chokingly funny details.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2014
Colonel Wallifarro, bending over his desk one forenoon some two months after he had given the dinner to announce his son's engagement, had chokingly fallen forward with his face on his elbows.
From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville
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