Sentence examples for This oppressive from inspiring English sources

This oppressive attitude is what makes Madame Michel, the building's concierge, conceal her intellectual pursuits in the belief that her humble origins sap all value from her opinions.

This oppressive policing of protest increases the risk of injury to those exercising their right to voice dissent; their subsequent criminalisation is an attack on the right to public protest itself.

This oppressive backdrop explains the frequently referenced migration of humans to extra-terrestrial ("off-world") colonies.

I look for people to engage with me in discussions about oppression, and I want to brainstorm ideas on fighting this oppressive system based in straight cis white supremacy.

Weightlessness is like this oppressive, all-encompassing force.

"They learned that under this oppressive regime, seats in Parliament mean very little".

WHAT is this mysterious oppressive "community," this shadowy bigot entity that issues these prissy "guidelines" and decides who stays or who/what has to go? WHO are these anonymous bullies who find perverse pleasure in reporting and censoring independent non-corporate queer artists like me?

Sometimes this was oppressive.

The island possible to this airless, oppressive imagination has too few resources.

Mr. Haendel has all sorts of debts — Vija Celmins, Jack Goldstein, David Salle and Robert Longo, just for starters — but this startlingly oppressive walk-in scrapbook stands solidly on its own.

The whole album is like this: dense, oppressive and utterly hypnotic, so detailed and minutely inflected that you become helplessly absorbed.