Sentence examples for mildly oppressive from inspiring English sources

I then followed the Ostergade out into the Kongens Nytorv, a mildly oppressive public square belted by pompous buildings.

A Billy Elliot of the culinary arts who grows up in the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton, England, Nigel is a sensitive misfit biding his time until he flees his mildly oppressive nest to find work as a chef's assistant in a London hotel.

(Hale) 'Toast' (No rating, 1 36) A Billy Elliot of the culinary arts who grows up in the West Midlands city of Wolverhampton, England, Nigel Slater is a sensitive misfit biding his time until he flees his mildly oppressive nest to find work as a chef's assistant in London.

You could also look at Haiti and Cuba: roughly parallel histories, but one is a hell hole, and the other a mildly oppressive functional socialism.

I consider organised lobbies in general to be in effect - whatever the rights or wrongs of their position - oppressive to put it mildly.

Now add to this oppressive list the incontestable and deeply distressing fact that the international community finds it very difficult, to put it mildly, to put together the forces need for armed humanitarian interventions.

So oppressive".

"That is particularly oppressive.

Mildly worried.

"It's oppressive.

It never felt oppressive".