Sentence examples for her repression from inspiring English sources

"Dr Parker is repressed and is freed... from her repression".

The movie blames her repression of long-simmering anger for her detachment from him and from their two grown children.

Alexandra Silber spends most of her time in "Arlington" sitting at the family piano, primly dressed in a floral print, pearls and a white cardigan, and gradually releasing the anguish behind her repression.

The extremity of Mathilde's suffering makes her repression of it less interesting than a more ordinary version of such self-control (she doesn't really have a self, so its repression just makes her a double negative); and Lotto's shortsighted complacency is also suddenly less interesting, because less culpable (we can't usefully judge him for not knowing what was strenuously kept from him).

Her repression, her transparent denial, her futile attempts to tap into the pain with me in the car, it all satisfied me somehow.

Martin makes every line count, but she's even better when Susan is not speaking; her repression and bubbling irritation are subtly but distinctly conveyed.

Her sexual repression from being constantly under the watchful eye of her father turns to sexual hysteria as she repeatedly jabs a doll in a suggestive and disturbing way.

Brad offers Whitney one last chance to put her emotional repression aside and open up to him and she throws him a bone by telling him he's the one for her.

Home and homesickness are her central preoccupations; repression, guilt and estrangement her prevailing themes.

CAIRO — A Libyan woman who became a symbol of her country's repression after security forces tried to silence her accusations that Qaddafi militiamen had raped her said on Monday that she had escaped to neighboring Tunisia.

When Elizabeth later punishes her daughter for nervous weakness, she is expressing – through repression – her fear of mental instabilities she recognises well.