How To Use Claustrophobic In A Sentence
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I felt a bit claustrophobic in the tiny room.
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And in this self-regarding, claustrophobic atmosphere, he became disillusioned.
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Consequently, when characters share on-screen space, it is almost claustrophobic because of the heavy presence of repressed longings and unspoken desires.
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The paintings of the Post-Impressionists, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which formerly hung in the claustrophobic, columned Bellechasse gallery, are cosseted now one floor below in small, elegant, midnight-blue galleries dedicated to the late scholar Françoise Cachin, who served as the museum's first director.
New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
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I suppose this would be a bad time to mention that I'm claustrophobic?
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So does she not feel at all claustrophobic and cramped?
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Nick Gevers said it best: "(the novel) tells in sumptuous claustrophobic detail just how alien -- and alienated -- a human society might become, portraying a mighty far-future city state driven by absolute standards of meritocracy turning against itself in hysteria and bloodshed
Jack Vance "To Live Forever" & other extravaganzas
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The atmosphere was somewhat claustrophobic.
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She had a sickening feeling of true flying for a moment before the shocking cold and utterly claustrophobic feeling of submersion in water enveloped her.
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Expanded, visually, beyond anything resembling the comparatively claustrophobic 1947 film which starred a wonderfully scrofulous Richard Attenborough, and imbued with a feverish morality that would have gratified Mr. Greene himself, the film is almost distractingly beautiful to look at, something that accentuates the tension between the film's conflicting quantities, i.e., the glories of the physical world, and the corrupted humanity it hosts.
'Idiot Brother': Silly, Satirical and Smart
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I wanted to make the audience feel as uncomfortable and claustrophobic as the victim.
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She began to feel slightly better once they had left the claustrophobic confines of the house.
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Also, the unusually isolated, claustrophobic setting of the town gives the atmosphere a real edge.
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The stalls are now too close together and the canopies too wide, making the passages between stalls narrow, uninviting, claustrophobic and sunless.
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The geography is much bigger, but it allowed me to juxtapose this massive Alaskan landscape with this very claustrophobic situation.
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Only four of those who perished on the claustrophobic clifftop almost exactly a year ago were granted the opportunity to exorcise those memories on the wide open spaces of Mount Florida.
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You are wiser about love and see that time spent with friends stops a relationship getting claustrophobic.
The Sun
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Full hide trim finished in a light grey make for a pleasantly unclaustrophobic cabin.
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‘Quanti canicula ille in fenestra’ on February 12, 2010 at 12: 07 am Claustrophobic inspector
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I had never been a claustrophobic person, but I believe that on that evening I was truly experiencing the classic symptoms.
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The ‘anaesthetised rhythm’ of hypnosis creates an extremely dense, claustrophobic atmosphere of interiority.
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It's too vaulty and therefore insufficiently claustrophobic, but it's boring verging on deathly.
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Handsome young Dickie Attenbrough plays a claustrophobic stoker.
My God, It's Full Of Tweets!
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The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
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This film captures the claustrophobic feeling of people struggling against violence and poverty.
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To my right is the smaller young muscly man who now also keeps trying to attract my attention but I'm claustrophobic and I just want out of there but for some reason I'm stuck to my seat.
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While shuttling between the late 1960s and new millennium, the focus lingers claustrophobically on one hot summer holiday, by the seaside, when Julian's father was called away from his family and back to the prison.
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Y.C. (2 stars) Limbo John Sayles explores Alaska in a schizzy tale that starts as an epic and ends, alas, as a claustrophobic, stuck-on-an-island melodrama.
Critical Moment: Reviews
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The 1,750 sq ft bungalow is made up of three buildings connected by modules that act as light wells and avoid claustrophobic corridors.
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Terrified and claustrophobic she vomited and evacuated her bowel and bladder.
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They provide an evocative, if somewhat claustrophobic, experience.
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And since I had no desire to sleep in any more claustrophobic places, we quickly agreed to ski on.
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MRI scanning no longer involves entering a giant tube that some people find claustrophobic.
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The camerawork and claustrophobic atmosphere are designed to externally replicate his mental state.
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Curiously, Yang avoids the claustrophobic tension of the mineshaft.
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The narrow corridor and small doorways also contributes to the claustrophobic effect.
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The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
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Back then we dubbed their claustrophobic, brooding sound "Nightmare Pop", and with good reason.
The Line Of Best Fit
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To wake up on a foggy morning is to see a new mysterious world that has a cold, damp and claustrophobic atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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For me I'm a little bit claustrophobic, so whenever I've had the sensory deprivation, the gags and the blindfolds and of course the heat I would get panicked.
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No one likes to be put in a box; this especially rings true for claustrophobic artists who are trying to break through to a mainstream audience.
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Audiences feel appropriately claustrophobic in the close-up jail sequences, and appropriately exultant when Flynt's lawyer wins his case in front of the Supreme Court.
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The film's claustrophobic interiors also betray its stage origins and there are no real aerial sequences to provide relief.
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If any of you have seen an MRI tube, they tend to be small and cramped, difficult for claustrophobics to handle, and a tight enough squeeze for one person, let alone two.
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I think claustrophobic inspector hit it spot on about being dressed in his best trackies, shitty old jumper and probably the ebst lizzie duke rings he could muster or thieve.
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Now out of the claustrophobic lift, he was able to concentrate on Hyde.
THE LAST RAVEN
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"Great, now I'm starting to get claustrophobic," she whined.
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Derek Jarman opens his claustrophobic, skyless Caravaggio with the feverish artist on his shadowy deathbed.
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They loved the charming exterior and intimate feel of the 1939 saltbox, but the interior layout of boxy little rooms was slightly claustrophobic.
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Terrified and claustrophobic she vomited and evacuated her bowel and bladder.
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Now out of the claustrophobic lift, he was able to concentrate on Hyde.
THE LAST RAVEN
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They've filled their almost-claustrophobic room with towering flower bouquets and perhaps a few too many obsequious waiters.
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Two men sit in a small, claustrophobic room, cigarette smoke curling through the soft light.
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The other side mixes explicit images of a pier and a cloudy sky with oppressive, claustrophobic interiors.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As this cloistered, claustrophobic existence begins to give way to outside pressure, the pathos of Lamb and Doggo's stories is made pitifully real.
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They are very, very tiny and extremely claustrophobic, with tiny pedals.
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If this sounds a little claustrophobic, head to the Szechenyi baths, in City Park, where on a Sunday morning we found legions of men and women luxuriating in its outdoor pools.
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That ties into my main feeling that the layout feels cramped and a little claustrophobic.
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Modestly ambitious and highly successfully within its chosen territory, Dead Snow proves to be one of the punchiest horror flicks in recent memory and one of the more capable within its low-budget constraints; the silent, lifeless landscapes make for a chilling tension-builder between each over-the-top set piece, while a memorable third-act shot of a character trapped beneath the snow is more nightmarishly claustrophobic than anything in The Descent.
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Usually dark, damp and stained, with imagined muggers lurking in the shadows, they are claustrophobic places to escape from as fast as possible.
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The tale has strong resonances in Eva Sallis's own life… a world of home-schooling, prodigious talent and claustrophobic expectation.
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This literal difference in duration does not detract from a work's capacity to induce hypnotic, mind-numbing, humorous or even claustrophobic effects.
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The narrow confines of the inner solar system seem claustrophobic compared to the asteroid belt.
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Tammy, I get the same effect, it's a kind of claustrophobic thing, like don't put me in a room alone with it!
Facing Down the Beast: Dior Hypnotic Poison
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The book's zonked philosophizing about the nature of reality wears a little thin, but Lethem's claustrophobic vision of a world where everything is connected and nothing is as it seems proves both funny and frightening.
Chronic City: Summary and book reviews of Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem.
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The ‘Where’ is the campus of the alternative high school, ‘the claustrophobic madhouse.’
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The air itself is claustrophobic; you wipe your brow with a hand already dripping.
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It must also be claustrophobic, repetitive and dull.
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But the lesbian scene can feel crushingly claustrophobic, with people knowing the intimate details of your life before they've even met you.
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A claustrophobic, all-encompassing atmosphere of utter darkness takes over the poem.
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They were ultimately led by a man who was stuck in a political cul-de-sac as claustrophobic as the compound in which he was effectively imprisoned for the past two years.
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a claustrophobic little room
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The hundred thousand or so claustrophobics banged their fists on the metallic walls while crying out for help, and a wall slid open from left to right, exposing some sort of movie screen.
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Being close to someone was claustrophobic for her.
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She was diagnosed as a claustrophobic but they've had claustrophobics in isolation before without any problems.
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It's a design flaw in the writing that blurs distinctions between members of the cast and heightens the claustrophobic atmosphere which frequently threatens to suffocate the show's many fine qualities.
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He does have panic attacks, which, if you are claustrophobic, is tough to watch.
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Edgar Ulmer's reputation rests largely on a series of no-budget, claustrophobic noirs and thrillers like Strange Illusion, Bluebeard, and of course Detour.
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But having read your comments again Zoe I must call WAH, and admit I was well and truly suckered in. on March 31, 2010 at 8: 03 pm Claustrophobic inspector
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Now an all too common feeling of claustrophobic despair had returned.
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It feels claustrophobic and dark, as though it guards its secrets closely.
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And, yet, in 2008, their label loving world where they live myopically and refuse to think globally has become claustrophobic and beside the point.
Thelma Adams: Sex and The City Jumps the Shark
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The human part of this ship is a made as small and claustrophobic as possible.
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Each track is built from a simple drum pattern, being covered in keyboard noodling, reverb, echo, distortion and sound effects in order to achieve a dense, claustrophobic background.
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It looks like a mosquito net, but this shimmering veil evokes dreams that can rise above the body's claustrophobic confines.
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When they're not busy rioting, Londoners are often to be found selling drugs, wearing hoodies, taking drugs, obtaining firearms and chasing each other through one of about three photogenically claustrophobic council estates – all to a blaring grime soundtrack.
2011 in cinema: Broken Britain v animals
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The small cubicle in which the prisoner had to wait was quite claustrophobic.
The Prisons We Deserve
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We have over a hundred so if anybody is feeling a little bored/claustrophobic/clean/clucky, your presence is more than welcom
One of these days…
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Escape training can be a harrowing experience especially for those who are claustrophobic.
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As the sub heads out to sea, the cramped and claustrophobic tube becomes a pressure cooker when she faces a steel wall of hostility.
The Sun
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In a claustrophobic suspense story, you could see how this might come in handy.
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She took a grip on herself, physically pushed back the dark, claustrophobic horror at the point of drowning.
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The unfaltering rhythm of his prose, the repeated phrases and devices, suggest a claustrophobic sense of inevitability.
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Trinity was becoming claustrophobic as she was squashed between the two boys.
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London he finds claustrophobic - too many people he went to school with, who know too much about him.
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The Algerian casbah provides a wonderful, tight, claustrophobic setting, its steep, narrow streets allowing Pontecorvo both sweeping crowd scenes and stark close-ups for his handheld camera.
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The staff members are jammed into a nest of claustrophobic offices.
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‘They didn't seem that bad, but I'm not claustrophobic anyway,’ she said.
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I had to get out of here; this place is making me claustrophobic.
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The hour-and-a-half long film is set in the claustrophobic confines of a dingy hotel room.
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Now out of the claustrophobic lift, he was able to concentrate on Hyde.
THE LAST RAVEN
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‘This job is great if you like mechanics, you're not claustrophobic and you don't mind getting wet every now and then,’ she said.
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Rather than worshipfully recalling the claustrophobic, kitchen-sink realism of the 1973
GreenCine Daily
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The few that decided to leave were probably some token claustrophobics.
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Each track is built from a simple drum pattern, being covered in keyboard noodling, reverb, echo, distortion and sound effects in order to achieve a dense, claustrophobic background.
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Any risk of feeling claustrophobic is banished by generous areas of glazing.
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The stalls are now too close together and the canopies too wide, making the passages between stalls narrow, uninviting, claustrophobic and sunless.
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There's no sense of a spatial void needing to be filled - no sense of that odd, claustrophobic nearness that can come from silence.
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The equipment can also be used to sedate nervous and claustrophobic adults.
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I circled the rooms feeling slightly claustrophobic from all the exposure.
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She also knew that she was a serious claustrophobic.
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Once she had even told a teacher that she was claustrophobic just so that she would be able to sit by the window.
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Of course, his favorite place to sleep is in a nook and/or cranny under my bed (under my bed is used for storage, so a ton of crud under there - including spare blankets) so he's obviously not claustrophobic.
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There is no better place to be acrophobic and claustrophobic than in a glass elevator stuck on the forty-second floor.
Overthoughts
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More and more of a crowd began to enter the room, stuffing the whole area and turning it into a claustrophobic matchbox as the final countdown began.
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The other side mixes explicit images of a pier and a cloudy sky with oppressive, claustrophobic interiors.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Composed shortly after The Turn of the Screw, the Canticle shares that opera's claustrophobic, oppressive atmosphere.
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Ceiling draperies delineated the claustrophobic furnace of the harem and its imprisoned occupants.
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It was very uncomfortable and claustrophobic - but it will look fantastic on screen.
The Sun
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I'd imagine it can get quite claustrophobic in there, especially when you've been at it all week.
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Suddenly, it seemed like the grungiest, most claustrophobic place on earth.
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Action in the Gothic novel tends to take place at night, or at least in a claustrophobic, sunless environment.
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The atmosphere is claustrophobic; but the film's final twist is a letdown.
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The real action takes place within the claustrophobic world of a school that would be improbable anywhere.
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From his kicking and screaming, we seemed to have chosen the most claustrophobic member of the crew as well, but in time, he emerged from the inlet with the metal piece in hand.
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His claustrophobic interiors feature period furniture, kitsch objects and art works of a mostly generic modernist flavor.
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Most found the ship cramped and claustrophobic.
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It looks like a mosquito net, but this shimmering veil evokes dreams that can rise above the body's claustrophobic confines.
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Page after page of manic ramblings crowd these uneven stories to a claustrophobic pitch, threatening to lose even the most attentive of readers with their jargon-heavy, obfuscated psychobabble.
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To our children and grandchildren, ultra-conservative ‘old lady’ style may have the attraction of novelty, and none of the claustrophobic headmistressy associations we've pinned to it since we were young.
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Two winged people inside a small space can make everyone feel slightly claustrophobic.
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All five of them ducked inside the claustrophobic blockhouse.
THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
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You are wiser about love and see that time spent with friends stops a relationship getting claustrophobic.
The Sun
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What a sad misuse of her central work that it becomes the mantra for a whole lot of sentimental, claustrophobic, fake urbanism.
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With one bound, disability leapt out of the claustrophobic world of politics.
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The bare bones of a claustrophobic thriller are ground into dust by some leaden direction in this uninspiring attempt at mining Misery territory.
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The room was darkly lit and the amorphous silhouettes littered about in the shadows made it claustrophobic.
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As a result, the viewer, at times, gets an almost claustrophobic sense of the action.
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The film-making, which is claustrophobic and closely tied to the heat of the moment, puts us alongside him as he roams about his apartment and the reform school where he works.
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You are wiser about love and see that time spent with friends stops a relationship getting claustrophobic.
The Sun
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To wake up on a foggy morning is to see a new mysterious world that has a cold, damp and claustrophobic atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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In a sense it's almost claustrophobic, with all the buildings huddled together and the people bustling their way through.
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Does it sometimes feel a bit claustrophobic?
The Sun
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The beneficiaries included indigent persons such as the visually challenged man who lived with his family in the claustrophobic confines of a public call booth.
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Much of the drama was shot in the narrow wynds of Edinburgh's Old Town and has a grim, claustrophobic feel that producer Ian Madden likens to the contemporary horror movie, Seven.
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I'm claustrophobic as well so this is making a great combination right now.
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His childhood was narrow and claustrophobic, confined to five blocks of Bayonne.
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Now is not a good time to announce that you're claustrophobic.
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The atmosphere was somewhat claustrophobic.
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This part of the story doesn't quite gel, but at least it does get us out of that claustrophobic apartment.
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This remarkable evocation of childhood is set in an Italian hamlet during the hottest summer on record - the suffocating heat a perfect backdrop to the claustrophobic tension of the story.
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It is about whether we are free, or slaves to someone else's claustrophobic idea of freedom.
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She had to be a claustrophobic; that's the only way she could be so restless when caught indoors.
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This is the claustrophobic, restricted world of our grandmothers' dreams.
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It was a bit cramped and very claustrophobic.
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The claustrophobic interior is sealed off on every side.
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You are wiser about love and see that time spent with friends stops a relationship getting claustrophobic.
The Sun
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Rather than the standard barrage of bass and major barre chords, The Banshees offered a sound that was expansive and broad, yet no less claustrophobic and tense than any of their peers.
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Coming to a halt, she rested her hands on her hips and tilted her head upwards, sucking at the air like a claustrophobic who'd been trapped in an elevator for too long.
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To wake up on a foggy morning is to see a new mysterious world that has a cold, damp and claustrophobic atmosphere.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everything else we wanted to keep the elevators as in tact as possible for every shot, and the actors wanted it as well as claustrophobic as it was, they wanted to keep it as real as they could, and we shot all of the elevator stuff consecutively, so the elevator became more and more havocked, and the actors could get more and more worn out over the course of shooting.
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Feeling suddenly claustrophobic, he headed for the training yards, where he sparred half-heartedly with a few others.
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Bratlie makes her best pitch for coherence in a claustrophobic staging that evokes the oppression of the times, doing what she can to break the play's naturalistic stranglehold.
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If you're getting that claustrophobic, painted-into-a-corner feeling, make more room to move by deleting non-essential activities—watching TV, getting cross, big-noting.
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The horse also proved the value of the controversial sheepskin cheekpieces which are now regularly fitted to horses who find blinkers and visors too claustrophobic.
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This part of the story doesn't quite gel, but at least it does get us out of that claustrophobic apartment.
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Now out of the claustrophobic lift, he was able to concentrate on Hyde.
THE LAST RAVEN
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I think claustrophobic inspector hit it spot on about being dressed in his best trackies, shitty old jumper and probably the ebst lizzie duke rings he could muster or thieve.
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Such attire is all right in its place, but not in the cramped, claustrophobic conditions of an aircraft cabin.
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The air hangs heavy, thick and impenetrable, as cloying and claustrophobic as incense.
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A film that claustrophobics might do best to avoid, it's a perfect fit for the single midnight showing.
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Such sustained claustrophobic darkness made "2666" a smothering reading experience, but a slimmer work such as "The Skating Rink" published in English in 2009, 20 years after appearing in Spanish, also set on the Costa Brava, can be eerily hypnotizing, with flashes of toe-curling horror.
Threatening Weather on Menace Beach
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It feels beyond high definition, etiolated, claustrophobic.
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Between the two encounters Mr. Cornwell paints a vivid, harrowing portrait of the ordeal of medieval warfare, with trebuchets, catapults, primitive cannon, vats of boiling oil and crossbow bolts -- even the claustrophobic hell of an underground clash as two tunneling armies collide under the walls of Harfleur.
Victory by Longbow
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The 1950s will never seem the same again - claustrophobic, dark, deep, but oh so polite dahling, anyone for tennis?
Reader reviews of The Outcast by Sadie Jones.
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I stretched out in the den, pillowed my head on my arm and suffered through the long long night, wet, cold, aching, hungry, wretched, dreaming claustrophobic nightmares.
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It was so small it was claustrophobic, but it went on to become the place to go if you wanted to hear trad or folk.
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Its world is claustrophobic, dark, dangerous.
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It is all those things, but it is also an examination of what people do to each other in a claustrophobic situation.
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They lived in an unhealthily claustrophobic atmosphere.
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The pursuit climax in the city's sewers is a little ordinary, but even then we have an extremely tense, claustrophobic sequence where Lime can hear his pursuers closing in through tunnels on all sides.
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A refrigerator-size chockstone is wedged between the walls ten feet downstream from the ledge, giving the space ahead the claustrophobic feel of a short tunnel.
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The fact that she was claustrophobic didn't help the matter in any way.
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Lets hope the group are in contact with Wilts to agree intentions etc so it can be planned, protected and policed well. on January 3, 2010 at 9: 09 am FRONTROWHERO islam4uk is the group, sorry on January 3, 2010 at 10: 32 am Claustrophobic inspector
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In the claustrophobic gloom of Fez, a small basement club popular with students in downtown New York, Joan Rivers is standing on stage haranguing her audience.
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They walked up the ship's angled boarding ramp and entered the claustrophobic confines of the ship.
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They are claustrophobic: unfortunate when the internal flow of the design renders these stairs a necessity.
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I feel claustrophobic and am pleased to leave.
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The first half of the episode drags, and the claustrophobic set feels stagier than the Senate.
DVD Verdict
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Because children blur the boundaries of self, men, who guard their boundaries so vigilantly, feel claustrophobic with them.
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A claustrophobic person would definitely have died here, I thought.
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Rather than the standard barrage of bass and major barre chords, The Banshees offered a sound that was expansive and broad, yet no less claustrophobic and tense than any of their peers.
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I was asked if I was claustrophobic and said ‘No, not really,’ something I regretted halfway through when I had a minor anxiety attack.
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Described as a "claustrophobic thriller", it is the first collaboration between the British Film Institute and the studios, which plan to invest in a few homegrown independent films each year.
Pinewood celebrates 75 years filming the best of British and Hollywood
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The room was darkly lit and the amorphous silhouettes littered about in the shadows made it claustrophobic.
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If the The Slaves of Solitude (1947) is arguably Hamilton's most formally and emotionally satisfying novel, it's partly because its setting ( "intense war, intense winter, and intensest black-out in the month of December") enables him to give a deeper sense of a claustrophobic milieu, and partly because its heroine, Miss Roach, is the most sympathetic, resourceful, and complex of Hamilton's creations.
Giddy & Malevolent
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I'm claustrophobic, especially in a crowded elevator.
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As it is, it is sometimes too claustrophobic for the big screen - presumably a result of budgetary constraints.
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Costanzo's documentary style camerawork lends an air of reality to this claustrophobic thriller, based on actual events.
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It definitely didn't help if you were claustrophobic, that's for sure.
