Sentence examples for oppressive feeling from inspiring English sources

Too many works contribute to an oppressive feeling of adolescent self-absorption.

As the play opens, Beane sits alone in his poky, sparsely furnished abode, where an ever-lowering ceiling adds to an oppressive feeling of Beckettian gloom.

Or public protest, and you don't have to wish to protest yourself to sense the oppressive feeling that things are prohibited.

"This is Alberich's dream come true," he enthused to his wife, Cosima: "Nibelheim, world dominion, activity, work, everywhere the oppressive feeling of steam and fog".

In Mr. Casebere's dreamy photographs, vacant, cavernous rooms, some flooded with water, are obviously roughly fabricated and strategically lighted models, but the images still convey a gloomy, oppressive feeling like that of an abandoned old prison or mental hospital.

"Still no obvious symptoms that perforation is imminent, but an oppressive feeling of foreboding hangs over me… This is it… I have to think through the only possible way out - to operate on myself… It's almost impossible… but I can't just fold my arms and give up".

"It's more an oppressive flattening of feeling".

In fact, it's the same feeling- that oppressive, sad sense of fatigue- that I experience every time I see a commercial objectifying women.

This started to feel oppressive.

"I want to convey the feeling of an oppressive redundancy in urban living conditions through these photos," he said in a statement to a Chinese newspaper reporter.

I could spend days in an altered state that gave me a different, better feeling than my oppressive normal condition.