strangle

His first wicket, Abdullah Shafique’s tickle down the leg side detected on review, was a strangle and his next two were classical off-spin.

“When I objected, two female officials started pulling my hair and beating me. I kept pleading with them to stop. But they dragged me through the corridor and one of them tried to strangle me. When I fought back, they tied my hands and legs and locked me up in a room,” she said, sobbing.

She takes refuge on a bench near the fountain in the lot’s famed circular courtyard as she considers how the trio will be immortalized by Hollywood: Oliver as someone we all want to strangle and cuddle at the same time; Charles as everyone’s un-fun uncle with a grouchy turtle face; and Mabel as a traumatized, homeless and jobless mumbling millennial.

From the passionate response pieces that I had read, I was somewhat prepared for the eugenics-tinged genetic arguments that stain the text and the deeply clichéd tropes that strangle the film version, but I was not prepared for a stunningly major omission: the fact that though much of the 265 pages of the book and hour and 56 minutes of the movie are taken over by suicide attempts and domestic and substance abuse, neither one manages to grapple at all with mental health.

"They thought to strangle us, to wipe us off the map. But we are an ancient people, a people of brave fighters. We stood up as one and we defended ourselves," he said.