"oppressive reality" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a reality that feels burdensome and oppressive. For example: "The oppressive reality of poverty is something many of us rarely have to confront firsthand."
If Burton and her family had moved to Alta California due to the promises of the Treaty and of the U.S. takeover of Mexican American communities, in the subsequent decades she had witnessed and experienced their discriminatory and oppressive realities instead.
The values and ideal produced by culture calls for the transcending of oppressive social reality.
There is a dialectic involved here insofar as even if modern technology has its origin in a repressive, oppressive, capitalist reality principle, this same technology carries with in itself other possibilities.
Haystack was talked up as the singular solution to rid the world of oppressive regimes, but the reality was far less impressive.
SR (Wii U, Nintendo cert: 3) ★★ Freed from the oppressive shackles of mimicking reality, Nintendo sports games usually enjoy the freedom to be as playful and creative as imagination allows.
Wade's approach is particularly dangerous because his argument is that he is just a defender of scientific truth and that a cabal of left-leaning academics is obfuscating reality with oppressive, even fascistic, denials of the truth about race.
The dissonance between the American ideal of equal opportunity based on individual merit and the reality of oppressive inequality based on skin color threatened, after World War II, to split America asunder.
But a number of incidents brought home the realities of the oppressive regime.
Vargas lets the reader see the realities of an oppressive regime with a degree of detail not often used by his compatriots in Latin American literature, as Michael Wood suggests in the London Review of Books: "Vargas Llosa... tells us far more about the details of day-to-day intrigue, and the sordid, sadistic minutiae of torture and murder".
