Sentence examples similar to oppressed feeling from inspiring English sources

Nightmares in this more archaic sense consisted of being: (1) paralyzed except for your eyes (2) oppressed (or feeling a weight on your chest) (3) mute (i.e. unable to call out for help) These three experiences all took place while you were clearly awake and, not surprisingly, also led to strong feelings of terror.

Many of the systems and practices in policing that exist today were designed in the 1950s and '60s to enforce discriminatory laws and oppress black Americans who are still being and feeling oppressed at this very moment.

It seems the middle class are feeling oppressed in rather the same way that Marx's 19th-century working class felt oppressed.

"People are feeling oppressed and crushed and powerless.

Many wrote about feeling oppressed by other women.

But that ardent knowledge didn't stop him from feeling oppressed, or from expressing that feeling to everyone around him.

It is, instead, a product of the larger cultural forces that left Weiner feeling oppressed long before she became a writer.

He didn't recall feeling oppressed by segregation while he was growing up, but, as the returning hero, he felt the childhood emotions flooding back.

Eventually, a white woman said, "We're having all these lovely ideas, but … we have a part of our community that is feeling oppressed.

So they're either going to keep killing each other at varying rates with one side feeling beleaguered -- the Israelis -- and the others feeling oppressed -- the Palestinians.

Less than two weeks before the World Cup brings global glory to soccer, pickup players in New York's own multinational soccer community are feeling oppressed.