Sentence examples for Oppressive atmosphere from inspiring English sources

The antisemitism is a key to the film's oppressive atmosphere.

Sometimes I owe my being dispirited to the surroundings, especially the oppressive atmosphere in our college.

It was all a way of escaping the increasingly oppressive atmosphere of the times.

The last two years, there was a sense of a heavy, oppressive atmosphere over the schoolyard.

And the oppressive atmosphere of fear has made concentrating on even routine tasks difficult.

Mr. Harper's bright geniality at least spreads a little sunshine into the oppressive atmosphere.

Still, the oppressive atmosphere might have been tolerable were it not for the hunger.

There, Kafka's name is invoked thanks to "long flight delays, poor service and an overall oppressive atmosphere".

The ominous, oppressive atmosphere that makes Lorca's play so much more than a potboiler is mostly missing in inaction.

This patch of Ireland – bounded by the Wexford county lines, with the metropolises of Kilkenny and Dublin in the distance – is Tóibín's own, and you can feel his careful familiarity in every line, in the speech patterns and social habits of his characters, and in the half-nurturing, half-oppressive atmosphere he brings to life.

The run-up to the 18th Communist Party Congress in November was accompanied by the most oppressive social atmosphere of the past decade.