Sentence examples for oppressive architecture from inspiring English sources

Everyone's happy: for Soft City inhabitants, the mind is as much a prison as the routine lifestyle and oppressive architecture.

In these works, such as The Soothsayer's Recompense (1913) and The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914), classical statues, dark arcades, and small, isolated figures are overpowered by their own shadows and by severe, oppressive architecture.

His camera will follow a woman fleeing in anguish from the oppressive architecture of a cruel order, out to the liberating promise of a lonely death in the outdoors — a sequence that poses an intimate family discussion against the deep-set power of wealthy authorities.

His camera will follow a woman fleeing in anguish from the oppressive architecture of a cruel order, out to the liberating promise of a lonely death in the outdoors a sequence that poses an intimate family discussion against the deep-set power of wealthy authorities.

The Oppressive Architecture of the West Bank.

There is one crucial detail that helps account for the widespread reverence regarding the politically oppressive city: Its architecture.

Pondering the oppressive hardness of modern architecture, she came up with a "room" entirely composed of steam, kept in place by curtains of air and spectacular to those who saw it.

"I grew up in a neighborhood where the architecture felt oppressive, and I was inspired by people in their backyards who made makeshift spaces, and the architect Peter Cook who proposed landscapes that heal you emotionally," says Halsey.

Even the architecture seemed grimly oppressive.

The architecture, both impressive and oppressive, made me feel simultaneously important and meagre, and as I was later told, this was intentional.

As with Fahrenheit 451, the utopian architecture becomes a harbinger of the oppressive future to come.