He has developed what he called "the oppression questionnaire" to gauge the degree to which a person feels subjugated.
When her female characters do bond, it's often dispiriting to hear what they choose to share: the memory of an erotic charge they felt while being subjugated by a man; a generally passive acceptance of their lowly status.
That is not to say there weren't occasions he railed at, especially when he felt a director had subjugated some favourite opera to his own inappropriate whims.
Taking a hard-line approach with someone and telling him or her to stop something they can't control only perpetuates the shame they feel and subjugates them into more silence.
As long as we remain in Iraq, the Iraqi people will feel themselves to be subjugated by a foreign power.
Nomathemba Mapengeza, 55, a nurse from Soweto, said she, too, had learned to be a better person, to set aside the hatred that she felt for the whites who subjugated her and her ancestors, and to reconcile with her nation's ugly past.
Feeling that most women were unjustly subjugated to men, within and outside of marriage, he empathised with Tolstoy's heroine in the same way that Flaubert could say of his most famous character, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi".
Take the recent problem: The Bodos felt they were economically, politically, socially and culturally subjugated by the Assamese society.
Or is she merely complicit in Buddy's and Vet's need to feel like men by subjugating a woman?
Although most of Indonesia was under Dutch control throughout the 19th century, Bali was only fully subjugated in the early 20th, when the Dutch felt the need to consolidate their grip on the entire archipelago.
You should not find yourself receding or feeling subjugated.
