| ADJ | claustrophobic | more claustrophobic | most claustrophobic | |
| NOUN | claustrophobic | claustrophobics | |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The description of the house and the building where they stay gives a claustrophobic feeling, which the reader hopes to escape with each character, only to again move into a new and equally claustrophobic setting.
- The film barely shows the Japanese themselves in any detail – reflecting the claustrophobic jungle warfare – when the enemy could be just in front of you but hidden from sight.
- The film partly was inspired by "Playtime" (1967), Jacques Tati's visionary comedy about modern urban life, and the cinematography and production design help create a claustrophobic sense of life in the city.
- Although experiences of these activities are regarded as claustrophobic, total enclosure fetishists like to practice these activities, sometimes combining them with bondage to intensify feelings of helplessness.
- A stream that attempted to introduce new and uninhibited form of literature, "Pehliyaan Banga" was the poet's attempt to rid the language of its claustrophobic garb.
- The metropolis of NAWLZ is a sprawling, yet claustrophobic city and the comic’s namesake. It depicts a world in the future with its focus on youth culture..
- A typical episode involved both very naturalistic dialogue — and the kind of claustrophobic studio-setting that prevailed in shows such as "Steptoe and Son" — combined with the surreal.
- Bochert is claustrophobic and germophobic. She currently resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her cat Sid, who she has owned for 23 years.
- While editing "Body Heat" Kasdan had the idea for a large ensemble film, partly in reaction to the "claustrophobic" experience of working with just two actors in intimate settings.
- In 2011, Carrer directed the claustrophobic thriller "In the House of Flies", featuring punk rock icon and social commentator Henry Rollins as "The Voice".
- In 1954 he directed the tense and claustrophobic Frank Sinatra vehicle "Suddenly" which became, alongside "The Uninvited", his most widely known and highly regarded film.
- It has been described as 'lame' and an 'indignant annoyance' by Leslie Felperin of "Variety" and 'claustrophobic, repetitive and mostly ludicrous' by Richard Mowe of "Boxoffice Magazine".
- Because they can produce a fear of both suffocation, MRI scans often prove difficult for claustrophobic patients.
- Litten attended Amersham College of Art (now Amersham & Wycombe College) in his teens and later began higher art education but found it claustrophobic and restricting.
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