Accordingly, investigators' obligations to relieve oppressive background conditions increase over time.
Mercer was heavily influenced by Laing's theories, and employed the psychologist as a consultant on his 1967 drama Two Minds, which related a young woman's schizophrenia to her oppressive family background.
The crashing of bombs and the whine of bullets at least pushes Hans Zimmer's oppressive score into the background, and, in a further service to humanity, quiets the thundering bombast of Randall Wallace's dialogue.
Is he the consummate media star or the oppressive figure always present in the background at Kingsley Hall; is he a figure of freedom or not?
Her background, like his, was middle class – oppressive and chilly.
And the heatwave, which initially provides the necessary oppressive feel, suddenly seems to recede into the background never to return.
(Plus, we get an inkling pretty early on that Gretta actually has a good idea of where he is). And the heatwave, which initially provides the necessary oppressive feel, suddenly seems to recede into the background never to return.
The third will have both of these characters – from different countries and backgrounds – coming together to try to defeat an oppressive regime once and for all.
So "Black Hawk Down," say, may be a piercing evocation of combat, based upon an oppressive sense of universal heroism and a near-complete reluctance to assess the political background (and the local meaning) of the problem in Somalia.
Instead, it will abandon sex workers to navigate an oppressive legal regime that recognizes them only as victims or perpetrators, not as citizens with complex backgrounds and objectives.
