During Act I, the stage is claustrophobically boxed in by a framing of painted-on trees.
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A claustrophobically narrow house in Virginia was constructed only to block public access to an alleyway.
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Each Prelude is a study in dialectics with seemingly irreconcilable ideas made to share a claustrophobically small space.
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In a literary world that can sometimes feel claustrophobically close-knit, Mr. Tallent seems to have arrived fully formed.
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I joined the Co-op in 2013, and found it to be claustrophobically crowded, illogically organized, and almost absurdly inconvenient.
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A second story line, four years in the future, is set off by black bars that squeeze the frame claustrophobically.
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This entire production takes place, claustrophobically, inside a rectangular box (sets: Olaf Altmann) mounted high on the Berliner Ensemble's stage.
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Less claustrophobically allegorical than Mr. Lanthimos's other work, it is cruel and funny, an elaborate period bonbon laced with poison.
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But the claustrophobically-packed halls are also a reminder that most people aren't here for their health or out of obligation.
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Claustrophobically tight photographs swoop in on iconographic items, cropping them with cramped proportions and inadvertently making each one even more special.
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All this behind-the-camera tension, paired with the actual politics of the present-day Conner family, makes the series almost claustrophobically political.
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In comedian Bo Burnham's feature directorial debut Eighth Grade, the camera holds claustrophobically tight on the film's protagonist, a 13-year-old girl.
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Given the confined space the movie also owes a debt to theater, as the story claustrophobically unfolds in a remote, over-sized house with creaky stairs.
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But much of the claustrophobically minimal "Prayer" simply sounds like he's banging on various walls and items trying to nail the perfect boom, woof, and rimshot.
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With this fascinating intersection between physical and psychological spaces, Hudson hit upon the idea of building a series of rooms that gradually and claustrophobically shrink down around their occupant.
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General Townsend said the battle for the western half of the city was even more difficult because of what he called its "claustrophobically close terrain" of narrow streets and buildings.
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He says he embraced the fact that he often couldn't get his subjects to look "just right," choosing to jumble and stretch the noses, eyes, and mouths of his subjects onto claustrophobically-cropped faces.
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In claustrophobically bringing us close to a character defined purely by his grief, "My Eyes Went Dark" at once presents us with too little and broadcasts too much (a well-wrung metaphor invoking Jesus's crucifixion being no exception).
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Claustrophobically connected siblings are violently torn apart; space voyagers lose track of their space partners; spouses disappear from each other; and while it's never entirely clear where it is that people disappear to, it's almost certainly not pretty.
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No, it's not a holographic soundscape like you would get from pricier audiophile headphones, but the Bullets do provide a surprisingly wide soundstage that lets the music surround you rather than clustering it claustrophobically in the center of your head.
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Designed as an insanely neat, claustrophobically dense ethnological display on two levels, it holds some 3,000 framed photographs, many from early-20th-century family albums, of people and teddy bears posed together, and a few vintage examples of the real thing.
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The primary victims are Alison Wilding, whose vast orange and black sculpture "Assembly" (1991) is claustrophobically placed in the first room and Sarah Lucas whose sexy stuffed-tights-woman "Pauline Bunny" (1997) loses all of its impact because of bad lighting.
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Throughout "Rectify," the claustrophobically close-knit Paulie—where the local waitress sleeps with both Daniel and the politician who framed him, and where Hanna's brother glares at Daniel's family in the supermarket—is portrayed as near-enchanted in its isolation.
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Alastair Humphreys Four-year bicycle journey around the world; National Geographic Adventurer of the Year First job: Street advertising The summer after I left school, I needed to earn enough money for a plane ticket to Africa, to escape from the claustrophobically boring countryside.
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Dana Stevens of Slate wrote that the film did not work for her, labeling the film "epic in size, claustrophobically narrow in scope." Marshall Fine of The Huffington Post argued that the story "wants us to be interested in characters who are dull people to start with, made duller by their delusions of being interesting because they are high". Some critics viewed the film as an irresponsible glorification rather than a satirical takedown. DiCaprio defended the film, arguing that it does not glorify the excessive lifestyle it depicts.
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Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, pointing that Adam and Eve look more like "well-born incestuous siblings" in spite of being lovers, while the Observer's Jonathan Romney concluded that the film is "a droll, classy piece of cinematic dandyism that makes the Twilight cycle redundant in one exquisitely languid stroke". Kurt Halfyard of Twitch Film commented: "Retro recording equipment hasn't looked this claustrophobically sexy since Berberian Sound Studio". Alfred Joyner of International Business Times felt that "the melancholy that permeates Motown in the film could be seen as Jarmusch's take on the loss of America's greatness in the 21st century".
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He also raised Evegård, stating "whilst her voice can come across as whiny and somewhat annoying at first, it proves to be an acquired taste and one which is much more suited to the myriad of other styles found on the album. Indeed, the longer the record progresses the more she seems in her element, at home amongst the frenzied madness swirling around her". Angry Metal Guy called the album "witty, fun and well-written", feeling that the band "always manages to merge between styles with alacrity, demonstrating excellent musicianship and compositional flare". However, he criticized the mixing and mastering of the album, calling it "claustrophobically brickwalled".
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