Sentence examples for Oppressive silence from inspiring English sources

"Today of all days?" I ask, as much to break the oppressive silence.

In this sense it is a new word, an explosion of sound in an oppressive silence.

When the train stopped again, in the middle of the bridge, an unnatural, oppressive silence dominated the car.

As for life at school, he could imagine that himself: the sinister nuns, the tedious prayers, the oppressive silence.

But where stratification already exists, calling for cohesion over criticism seeks to impose a false unity and perpetuates an oppressive silence.

Then in July, six students brought a lawsuit contending that school officials have failed to stop relentless antigay bullying and that a district policy requiring teachers to remain "neutral" on issues of sexual orientation has fostered oppressive silence and a corrosive stigma.

Whizzing past the spindly trees, we pass by stagnant bogs, rust-colored streams, gravestone tablets tipping over in weed-choked cemeteries, and an oppressive, queasy silence.

So nurses are taught the medical management of diseases and to follow physicians' orders without questioning; this educational model was not only oppressive, it silenced its participants and diminished their self-confidence.

We call on Snap Inc. and other global media organisations to reject demands of oppressive regimes to silence journalists.

I've supported women survivors of sexual violence share their stories in defiance of the oppressive code of silence in several countries.

As you pick your way through the smoking black rubble, the silence is oppressive.