Sentence examples for can be oppressive from inspiring English sources

The oppressed learn from their oppressors; Brutus's language can be oppressive, too.

Fathers can be oppressive.

But that power can be oppressive.

You can get weighed down by it, the history can be oppressive.

Even in the best hospitals, the loss of freedom and dependence on anonymous forces can be oppressive.

Though the dark can be oppressive — "put duct tape over your eyes, you'll know what I mean" — the most intense pressure can be psychological.

While the sort of checklist you carry in Venice or Berlin can be thrilling, it can also be oppressive, a gilded prison of obligations.

"The sheer weight of incidental detail can also be oppressive, and as many as five separate centuries can sometimes elide in a single paragraph as he attempts to reanimate, say, the satanic conditions experienced by London's prisoners..

Silence may be golden, but it can also be oppressive.

Yet the regulations that define it can also be oppressive -- no jeans, no T-shirts, no sneakers, no shirts without buttons, no shirts without collars.

Only, in parts of the world where religion can actually be oppressive, bands inspired by Bathory and Mayhem and Burzum are few and far between.