Sentence examples for oppressive gaze from inspiring English sources
On 8 June 1949, George Orwell published his seminal novel telling of a future society held captive by the ever-watchful oppressive gaze of Big Brother.
Students of 18th-century English penology will instantly recognize the reformer Jeremy Bentham's infamous plans for an omniscient prison, never built but later turned by the French philosopher Michel Foucault into a metaphor for the oppressive gaze of late capitalism.
Slough: if hell was a real place, no cartoonish fire and brimstone, no screeching demons with molten tridents, but a functioning place with the departed and damned living side by side trying to get along under Satan's oppressive gaze, Slough would be the model.
She's currently writing a book: Transparency: Seeing Through The Oppressive, Patriarchal Male Superhero Gaze.
With his gelled black hair and crisp short-sleeved dress shirt – unstained by sweat despite the oppressive heat – Velázquez narrows his gaze and addresses the reporters: "My government is working to stop crime.
What's more, it has been perceived as inherently oppressive, most evidently in what has been called the "male gaze" that treats women as objects.
But a device that Tom Stoppard used effectively in The Invention of Love, where the older AE Housman gazes wistfully at himself as an emotionally reticent student, here becomes oppressive.
Sadly, the people who feel the brunt of this insidious gaze aren't only criminals; minority groups and activists are also subjected to this oppressive watching.
"That is particularly oppressive.
