Sentence examples for oppressive about from inspiring English sources

There used to be something oppressive about Lincoln Center.

"There's nothing oppressive about it," said Ms. Abdelkader.

There is something deeply gratifying about cultural distinctiveness and something inherently oppressive about cultural homogenization.

These are the town gossips as Greek chorus, yet while they're funny, sort of, there's also something oppressive about these busybodies.

Although a Yorkshireman to his fingertips, he was in full flight from everything that he found oppressive about England: the class distinctions, the rigid sexual morality, the weather.

According to Kristeva, what society systematically represses provides clues to what is oppressive about society and how society needs to be changed.

"The whole belligerent campaign appears to be oppressive and about vindication," says Burstein.

"Mothers!!!" casts a spell, but there is an oppressive airlessness about it too.

With the attention on the media as a result of the Leveson inquiry, perhaps it's time to consider quite how much Marmite and seaweed we can swallow along with the casually oppressive messages about our bodies, our relationships, and ultimately ourselves.

There was a clear if oppressive transparency about the way these organisations worked.

John Givings -- though psychiatrically hospitalized and a recipient of multiple electroshock treatments which have damaged his mathematical abilities -- is clearly not delusional about oppressive family relationships, not wrong about meaningless jobs, not incorrect about gutless frauds, and not mistaken about a dehumanizing society.