Sentence examples similar to oppressive impulses from inspiring English sources

From the anti-Muslim, breast-baring slogans of Femen ("topless jihad day", anyone?) through to the French burqa-banning advocates, there's a recurring desire to "liberate" women from oppressive religion – an impulse sometimes referred to as "white saviour feminism".

It is his film in disguise, the one that got away; a rueful critique of an oppressive regime and a heartfelt salute to the creative impulse that will not be quashed.

So oppressive".

"That is particularly oppressive.

"It's oppressive.

It never felt oppressive".

The approach is oppressive.

It was so oppressive.

A commanding and oppressive absence".

The overall effect was oppressive.

Sometimes this was oppressive.