Sentence examples for it was oppressive from inspiring English sources
Yes, it was oppressive, she says.
It was oppressive, too, with the heaviness of a storm.
The government, smarting under the humiliation suffered at the hands of Austria, was as timid in foreign affairs as it was oppressive in domestic matters.
Klein has also said that it was "oppressive" to have, as a mother, "a very public feminist", and she was slow to embrace the women's movement.
For decades Myanmar suffered under that rule, as inefficient as it was oppressive, sliding toward economic ruin, politically fettered, closed off from the world.
Though she says she was too young when the wall came down to really reflect on communism, she has since realized that it was oppressive for people to "have to watch yourself and make sure you have the right friends".
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's oppressive to have to represent a whole sex in everything you do".
It is oppressive landlords, heavy taxes and rapacious money-lenders who grind them into the dust.
