Like prohibition in 1920s America, the most likely outcome of oppressive night laws is simply that violence moves horizontally into other spaces or underground – sometimes literally – into less surveilled zones.
A patchwork of blue plastic seating could still be seen even as the stadium cracked and swooned on a muggy, oppressive night in Rio, leant a thrilling skein of Olympic authenticity by the presence in the wings of the most captivating athlete of his generation.
They walked for hours under the oppressive morning sun.
Go early or late enough to avoid the oppressive midday heat.
Jack Thorpe, the man suing Jim Thorpe, Pa., for his father's remains, stepped out of the oppressive midday sun and into the shade of a scraggly oak.
He had a confused sense, as he crossed Main Street, that the stores were no longer the same, that everything had changed again, but surely he was mistaken, an effect of overexcitement in the oppressive afternoon heat.
Henri Leconte used power and elegance last night to reach today's final of the LastMinuteTravel.com senior championships, but Mikael Pernfors called on survival skills to win his semifinal in the oppressive afternoon heat.
But on that muggy, oppressive morning, about 115 fires linked to that particular storm started in the county and in neighboring Josephine County, and as of Wednesday, three major fires were still burning, including the Garner Complex Fire.
In his book, Hutto describes the feeling, a hypnotic, heavy sense of harmony, everything coming together — insects, vegetation, animals — a bird snuggling up against him on a damp, oppressive afternoon.
We're guessing no one needed to tell you that -- the oppressive afternoon temperatures, pools of sweat and heat-induced grumpiness (wait, is that just us?) likely clued you in.
It was a hot, humid, oppressive Thursday night, but my running group was ready to go.
