Sentence examples for oppressive machinery from inspiring English sources
The relative position of the protagonists, and their visual relationship to the oppressive machinery of Potemkin, speak of revolutionary vortex.
Among the burning American questions that one was expected to take a stand on in that era: Was violence inevitable, necessary, or justified to defend oneself against, say, institutionalized bigotry, or the oppressive machinery of a belligerent state?
The psychopathic national socialism of Nazi Germany, communism of Stalinist Soviet rule and fascism of imperial Japan (whose oppressive bureaucratic machinery has survived well into the modern era) surely bear Weber out.
The machinery of a deeply oppressive system was calibrated to spare them from its most violent tendencies.
It's likely, I imagine, that most moviegoers will be more concerned by the eerie listlessness of those characters' faces and the grim vision of Santa Claus's North Pole compound, with interiors that look like a munitions factory and facades that seem conceived along the same oppressive lines as Coketown, the red-brick town of "machinery and tall chimneys" in Dickens's "Hard Times".
"That is particularly oppressive.
It never felt oppressive".
A commanding and oppressive absence".
