Sentence examples for as a repressed from inspiring English sources

Her longing and resignation also surely expressed Andersen's own feelings as a repressed homosexual.

"Asians could not get a part except as a repressed daughter on EastEnders –no period dramas, nothing.

In a conversation at his Beijing apartment, he recalled the world of his youth as a repressed, violent place, where classical music was forbidden.

Marlon Brando gave one of his uniquely odd performances as a repressed homosexual army officer whose Southern belle wife (Elizabeth Taylor) becomes involved with another officer (Brian Keith).

In About Schmidt, he returns to the road movie at the age of 65 to give one of his greatest performances as a repressed conformist undergoing experiences he doesn't wholly comprehend.

HE SAYS "Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman 'other' or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader".

Then came the housewife-as-a-repressed-vixen phase.

A gene was labeled as having a repressed promoter if any TSS was within a locus classified as State 12 ("Polycomb-repressed") or State 13 ("Heterochromatin").

I don't get it (the anger) out of my body as I used to, when I worked and played football"." The statement can be interpreted as conveying a repressed feeling of anger.

Thus, after pre-growth both strains were transferred to media containing D-glucose as a repressing condition, sophorose as an inducing condition, and no carbon source as a control condition respectively, and incubated for 3 hours.

Mr. Clooney smolders attractively as an ex-con and writer of hard-boiled detective stories, but his pairing with Ms. Dawber as a prim, repressed writer of a genteel television series like "Murder She Wrote" falls flat.