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- adverb In a
claustrophobic way.
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Examples
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I did read "The Difference Engine", which was kind of claustrophobically elaborate and byzantinely detailed, and liked the girl's "meta-laptop" idea, but it couldn't hold a neon candle next to "Neuromancer", which I'm reading again, with great pleasure, after having read and savored it first nearly 20 years ago.
Posthuman Blues Mac 2007
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I'm no comic book fan and seriously, the thought of sitting for two hours in a crowded theater surrounded by the kind of audiences who need to be told in advance not to unwrap their candy during the performance makes me claustrophobically nauseous.
E. Nina Rothe: How I Learned to Spell Spider-Man (and Watched a Groundbreaking Show in the Process) E. Nina Rothe 2011
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I'm no comic book fan and seriously, the thought of sitting for two hours in a crowded theater surrounded by the kind of audiences who need to be told in advance not to unwrap their candy during the performance makes me claustrophobically nauseous.
E. Nina Rothe: How I Learned to Spell Spider-Man (and Watched a Groundbreaking Show in the Process) E. Nina Rothe 2011
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I'm no comic book fan and seriously, the thought of sitting for two hours in a crowded theater surrounded by the kind of audiences who need to be told in advance not to unwrap their candy during the performance makes me claustrophobically nauseous.
E. Nina Rothe: How I Learned to Spell Spider-Man (and Watched a Groundbreaking Show in the Process) E. Nina Rothe 2011
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I'm no comic book fan and seriously, the thought of sitting for two hours in a crowded theater surrounded by the kind of audiences who need to be told in advance not to unwrap their candy during the performance makes me claustrophobically nauseous.
E. Nina Rothe: How I Learned to Spell Spider-Man (and Watched a Groundbreaking Show in the Process) E. Nina Rothe 2011
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I'm no comic book fan and seriously, the thought of sitting for two hours in a crowded theater surrounded by the kind of audiences who need to be told in advance not to unwrap their candy during the performance makes me claustrophobically nauseous.
E. Nina Rothe: How I Learned to Spell Spider-Man (and Watched a Groundbreaking Show in the Process) E. Nina Rothe 2011
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I'm no comic book fan and seriously, the thought of sitting for two hours in a crowded theater surrounded by the kind of audiences who need to be told in advance not to unwrap their candy during the performance makes me claustrophobically nauseous.
E. Nina Rothe: How I Learned to Spell Spider-Man (and Watched a Groundbreaking Show in the Process) E. Nina Rothe 2011
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Taking their cue from a line in which one of the characters describes the Porters' one-room flat as "a very narrow strip of plain hell," they have built a flat black wall five feet from the lip of the theater's stage, creating a claustrophobically narrow playing area in which the action takes place.
Still Angry After All These Years Terry Teachout 2012
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I'm no comic book fan and seriously, the thought of sitting for two hours in a crowded theater surrounded by the kind of audiences who need to be told in advance not to unwrap their candy during the performance makes me claustrophobically nauseous.
E. Nina Rothe: How I Learned to Spell Spider-Man (and Watched a Groundbreaking Show in the Process) E. Nina Rothe 2011
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I'm no comic book fan and seriously, the thought of sitting for two hours in a crowded theater surrounded by the kind of audiences who need to be told in advance not to unwrap their candy during the performance makes me claustrophobically nauseous.
E. Nina Rothe: How I Learned to Spell Spider-Man (and Watched a Groundbreaking Show in the Process) E. Nina Rothe 2011
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