The film nevertheless still captures the play's claustrophobic sense of being trapped in a smoke-filled room with people who might explode at any second.

In some cases it could be a fragile, vulnerable shelter with "a claustrophobic sense of isolation."

The pictures exude an affecting, claustrophobic sense of ennui (Johnson).

It takes place entirely in a shabby, poorly-lit kitchen, resulting in a claustrophobic sense of entrapment.

It was the claustrophobic sense of not being able to do anything which was the worst.

Visually the narrow streets and encroaching tenement buildings match Ben Loy's claustrophobic sense of the community.

"Tone Clusters" uses several video monitors, including a giant 16-screen unit, to create a claustrophobic sense of people tyrannized by an omnivorous technology.

"Night and the City" has a shrill, almost claustrophobic sense of the seedier side of Manhattan closing in on the characters.

Galef's themes are self-conscious ones, and the stories necessarily rely on an elliptical, slightly claustrophobic sense of humor, which pervades everything from structure to syntax.

By creating a remarkably claustrophobic sense of imprisonment, she made the work an implicit protest against oppression.