Sentences with phrase «smothered by»

Or you might feel smothered by your spouse even though s / he is independent and has a full life outside the relationship.

If you feel smothered by depression or overwhelmed with anxiety, I can share with you proven strategies to better manage your emotions and return your focus to the life you want to be living.

Outside, the world was damp, smothered by low - hanging clouds.

The court allowed Sangen to testify that, while newborn babies might be accidentally smothered by a Labrador Retriever if they snuggled up to them, adults could not be smothered by Labs.

The defendant claims that he provided his wife with a pillow and a blanket, went to bed, and later awoke to find her dead — smothered by their 75 - pound Labrador Retriever, he speculates.

«Having spent the majority of my life in an area smothered by pollution, I often wondered what it's like living on the other side.

Global temperatures are a real mish mash and it woud be interesting to judge your comment against real life single series temperatures to see if it stands up, whereby it can be seen that some areas of the world have not followed the warming trend but their cooling signal has been smothered by a warming one, probably from the thermometers placed in newly urbanised areas.

She's really only producing a half dozen or so finished works a year right now, and we are exhibiting her most recent sculpture TPAJAX, a taxidermy horse smothered by a red maggot / grenade shaped «blobject».

His most common format — varied in many ways until his death thirty years later — consisted of closely packed linear or alphabetical elements, like the fractured forms of Picasso and Braque circa 1910, enveloped or even smothered by clouds of blue, red, grey or black.

One of Square's lesser advertised titles (how could you hope to be seen when smothered by Final Fantasy XV's shadow?)

However a great idea can only take you so far when it's smothered by a relentless freemium model of almost endless monotonous gameplay, and design decisions that hamper the gamepl...

Need for Speed Payback marks the return of EA's racing series and despite there being a passable game hidden somewhere in this offering, it is smothered by corporate decisions and the general expectations of their...

Hopefully the remake excels and propels the franchise forward, without being smothered by Skylanders like Spyro was.

It's not a lot of fun to wax a boss 4 times in a row, only to end up being smothered by a motley mob you'd easily dispatch if you were at full health.

It's possible to love the game for all it tries to do, but still feel smothered by its insistence that so much of our experience is delivered staring down the barrel of a gun or other deadly weapons.

For those of you who are in that type of situation, feeling smothered by your student debt, Student Loan Hero can help you sort out the mess.

If you feel smothered by your monthly bills, a call from someone who says they can reduce or eliminate your debts might sound like the answer to your problems.

If you are feeling smothered by your bad credit or mounting debts, there is hope to crawl out from under the mess you have made of your finances.

A life - long reader at age forty five, I could be smothered by a fraction of my favorite books.

Will a novel be smothered by new novels coming online every day?

As corporations vie more and more aggressively for young consumers, popular culture — which traditionally evolves from creative self - expression that captures and informs shared experience — is being smothered by commercial culture relentlessly sold to children by people who value them for their consumption, not their creativity.

Without its trucks, minivans, and now cars, the wasting of Dodge gathers speed, the way once upon a not so distant time ago Plymouth played out the clock being gradually smothered by its caretakers.

Charters had much more operational freedom than traditional schools because they weren't smothered by the micromanaging rules and regulations of the bureaucracy and union contract.

The well - documented Type 1 stressors include experiences such as being impersonated, receiving a barrage of personal attacks, and being outed, shamed, or humiliated publicly, whereas the lesser - documented Type 2 involves a curious or controlling boy / girlfriend or friend constantly breaking into social media accounts or smartphone devices to read digital communications with others, feeling smothered by the quantity of digital communications with close others, and feeling a pressure to comply with requests that reveal something considered highly personal and private.

But Affleck's stoic Neil can be seen as an echo of Brad Pitt's»50s father from Malick's «The Tree of Life»: a strong, quiet man whose deep feelings are smothered by a masculine inability to express them.

Perhaps neither was quite suited for this material as Berg's skill with non-fiction doesn't translate to her first narrative film and Holofcener's gifts with character are smothered by the twisting and turning requirements of airport bookstore thriller fiction.

Karl, a man in his thirties, lives like an overgrown teenager in his parent's home, smothered by manipulative parents.

One characters is nearly smothered by sand.

Jeff Bridges and James Cromwell were among the A-listers who came out to celebrate the film, which has been all but smothered by an untimely Yari Film Group bankruptcy.

As Naomi, the penniless New York City tour guide with whom Arthur falls in love, indie - film darling Greta Gerwig is sweet but tame, the fierce edges she showed in last year's «Greenberg» smoothed and smothered by big - budget blandness.

The attendant 5.1 DTS - HD MA track is similarly stunning, translating a handful of showcase action sequences so that pinprick details are not smothered by the general cacophony.

The film is unfortunately smothered by newcomer syndrome as the narrative searching for artistry in the editing room jerks back and forth, from past and present.

That's the real question» without being smothered by its preciousness.

While his looks haven't changed much since the «Percy Jackson» films or the excellent The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Lerman shines here as the working class Newark Jewish boy, smothered by his parents, and as naïve to the world as he is academically gifted.

Mission design starts to feel repetitive and, whilst you can find moments of joy in Extinction, it all feels smothered by design choices that don't gel.

As I previously stated, it's all in how you say it: take for example the fine scene where candidate Clooney is saying grand ideological things in front of a receptive audience, while backstage, seemingly smothered by a wall sized projection of the US flag, Hoffman and Gosling discuss the back room bargaining required to get their candidate elected.

The film can be smothered by the obligations of its plot, but it's still beautiful and original, extremely funny, and sometimes very moving.

There are moments in The American that click and start to hum, but they're precious few, and mostly smothered by the flat, unchanging film around them.

Were you to do so, he might get cocky, feel you're a touch desperate and clingy, or he might feel smothered by your enthusiastic yes.

She looked like she was being smothered by sequin.

Those annoying car commercials where it feels like I am being smothered by boredom?

Cosmetology doesn't seem like a good option, as I feel completely smothered by the strict black or white, no black - and - white patterns, dress code at my school...

But they are bulky and often hard to style without feeling like you're being smothered by an accessory.

This vast gorge might rival the Grand Canyon in splendor... if only it weren't smothered by a couple of kilometers of ice.

The resulting high - resolution images and video, released yesterday and cobbled together using data gathered by the Voyager missions of the late 1970s and the Galileo probe that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, depict mountains that range up to 17 kilometers high, active volcanoes, dark lava fields, and bright plains smothered by sulfur deposits that have rained down from plumes that spew hundreds of kilometers high.

Mr. Cuomo added that New York was the biggest city smothered by the storm and yet no one died from it directly.

Most people do not want to be smothered by their carrier.

-LSB-...] Do you feel smothered by the mainstream?

-LSB-...] you feel smothered by the mainstream?

Karen related that she often felt smothered by her mother, «like I had no room to breath» and criticized by her father.