Sentence examples for on the straitjacket from inspiring English sources

The illusions and escapes were often extremely physical, or chemical: weak collar-links, knowledge of the precise torsions and tensions of one single under-elbow strap on the straitjacket, and how subtle combinations of bismuth and "block tin" let one eat fire.

If there's no gold to be had, why put on the straitjacket?

Step on the material of one of your sleeves while tugging your body out of the straitjacket.

The Washington consensus reigned supreme: persuade governments to put on "the golden straitjacket", in Tom Friedman's phrase, and prosperity would follow.Today big government is back with a vengeance: not just as a brute fact, but as a vigorous ideology.

On the screen, Houdini twisted, writhed and popped free of the straitjacket.

More programs of this kind should be established on campuses across America for Cubans who seek knowledge free of the straitjacket of "approved thinking".

Spain and Ireland would derive the benefits of lower-valued currencies, removing the straitjacket on their growth that has made high unemployment an entrenched feature of life.

I can only assume I was denied mainstream exhibition because as a 40+ woman director playing a Morgan Spurlock-style frontman in my film, I'd broken too many locks on the gender straitjacket.

As for theatergoers for whom a return to the fraught home fronts of the '50s feels like putting on a straitjacket, there's always "Cry-Baby," an adaptation of John Waters's 1990 movie about how the rock 'n' roll spirit rips apart staid old Baltimore in 1954.

Hearteningly, the country made the World Cup its own, loosening the straitjacket that Fifa imposes on its flagship event.

One former minister said: "I think there is growing pressure to throw away the straitjacket that the US has imposed on the government's relationship with the Hashid.