Sentence examples for it is oppressive from inspiring English sources
But it does have an effect: It is oppressive.
The influence of Judson on current dance artists is as inspirational as it is oppressive.
It is oppressive landlords, heavy taxes and rapacious money-lenders who grind them into the dust.
It is oppressive of women, gays and itself generally because it insists man is inherently, rather than habitually, sinful.
"Your book," he informed her, "I think is very great, a very moving book... powerful, significant, important — for me it is oppressive also — to it I am an outsider, intruding, shamefaced, feeling very unworthy, painfully unworthy to the verge of tears".
It is oppressive to contemplate how trivial we are in so colossal and intricate a construct.
It was oppressive, too, with the heaviness of a storm.
It's oppressive to have to represent a whole sex in everything you do".
But we do tend to think, wow, if I had that deck with that view.... It's oppressive.
