But we are being oppressed with no evidence whatsoever.
Who said that? "I am oppressed with a dread of living for ever.
A tiny Norfolk spruce sits in a pot on the windowsill, oppressed with some outsize tinselly stars.
Far from feeling flush with imminent power, he told his diary that he contemplated the task ahead "with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express".
A little later, in the bright springtime of their relationship, the couple become humorously oppressed with the knowledge of how adorable they are: "We're so cute I want to punch us in the face".
In late October 1947, oppressed with "wretched health", Orwell recognised that his novel was still "a most dreadful mess and about two-thirds of it will have to be retyped entirely".
For centuries, Chinese women were oppressed with the tradition of feet binding, because it was believed that smaller the were, the better – a cruelty described most famously in Jung Chang's Wild Swans.
So while it cracks down on any kind of dissent, it also means to treat the oppressed with some measure of sympathy by hitting out at local party extortionists and bullies.The trouble is, once the stimulus money is spent, there will be a further pile of shoddy infrastructure projects, redundant factories and unrecoverable loans to show for it.
As life shrinks to an "abolished bauble inanely echoing", something like the music of the spheres begins to resound in its place, amid unearthly and impossible complexities: Here almost always if the ring dove coos this immaterial mourning oppresses with many nubile folds the future ripened star whose scintillation will silverplate the crowd.
The Christian churches were also oppressed, with many leaders imprisoned.
