Sentence examples for oppressive marriages from inspiring English sources

She creates parallel and converging plots in which two women, Rosa and Zuela, find themselves challenging their oppressive marriages as a result of news of the murder.

Parched, which was nominated for best screenplay, is the story of four women escaping oppressive marriages in a village in Rajistan.

It may be a factor in the low marriage and high divorce rates in the United States, as women no longer rely on a 'breadwinner' they can stay independent longer, and are not tied economically to stay in oppressive marriages.

Gray skies, gray people, oppressive marriage laws: don't you just want to get away from it all?

Confused and jealous, Hayat leaves his mark on Mina as well, sabotaging the love of her life and elbowing her into another oppressive marriage.

Her mother left that oppressive marriage, and the two of them shared a bed until Janice was 16, because a much older sister, Cora, left her own husband (and child) to move in with them.

Maybe this time they'll read Nora's dance as a wild and undulating metaphor for her decaying, oppressive marriage.

I had to find a way out of my boring, oppressive marriage, even though I was sadly aware of the collateral damage that would result: my kids were innocent and my husband was baffled by all my changes.

Fleeing an oppressive arranged marriage, she strikes out to live alone in the Alaskan wild.

But the unfortunate reality is that many women still live in oppressive, fundamentalist monogamous marriages, and we do not use that as an excuse to eschew marriage all together.

The sympathy he conjures for them stems less from their personalities (the hero of "Kite Runner" was an unlikable coward who failed to come to the aid of his best friend) than from the circumstances in which they find themselves: contending with unhappy families, abusive marriages, oppressive governments and repressive cultural mores.