On many days, the relatively close Himalayan mountains are obscured by smog, the brick apartment buildings that form Kathmandu's skyline shrouded in an oppressive cloud.
If it is not the hundreds of supporters intermittently cracking mountain whips and ringing cattle bells, then it is the brutally beautiful landscape and its sheer drops or the oppressive cloud cover severely reducing visibility.
The first half is shot almost like a horror, all oppressive rumbling clouds and lashing of mist and shot of her back, suffocating corset laced up like a spine.
That the man cruising around Los Angeles in a 4x4, benching 90kg in his home gym and perspiring heavily while taking his dogs for walks in Griffin Park isn't the same creature as the man eternally caught between oppressive grey clouds and an oppressive brown quiff in Thatcher's Manchester.
That the man cruising around Los Angeles in a 4x4, benching 200 pounds in his home gym, and perspiring heavily while taking his dogs for walks in Griffin Park isn't the same creature as the man eternally caught between oppressive gray clouds and an oppressive brown quiff in Thatcher's Manchester.
You emerge from the corridor's close, oppressive aural cloud onto a platform overlooking a yawning space and an archaeological monolith: a 60-foot-high exposed section of the World Trade Center's slurry wall.
As soon as the weather takes a turn for the "nice," I feel like an oppressive black cloud is following me around.
The dialogue can border on the earnestly banal, and while the world of The Girl with Glass Feet was beautifully realised, Shaw doesn't convey any real sense of Thunderstown – it is simply a place of oppressive heat and alarming clouds.
Enjoy that warm golden color while it lasts, before you float a final layer of dark rum, clouding the glass with its oppressive weight until you can't see any hope at all.
In Shanghai, such is the oppressive smog, covering the city with a toxic cloud, that authorities have had to instal gigantic TV screens to broadcast the sunrise.
-- Another day of "oppressive" humidity, per our friends from the Capital Weather Gang: Scattered clouds provide limited shape relief and humidity remains oppressive.
