Sentence examples for oppressive sense from inspiring English sources

The oppressive sense that "big brother is watching you" will permeate the workforce.

Anything to get away from jazz's rigid definitions, its oppressive sense of what's appropriate, is the right thing.

So does the absorption of artisanal crafts into painting, often with a nearly oppressive sense of exquisiteness.

The design here is never static; there isn't the oppressive sense of control found in some classical architecture, with its rigid perpendicular lines.

But there is, in reading the book, an oppressive sense that technology might be about to take a turn irrevocably away from I.A. toward A.I.

The oppressive sense of bullying did not prevent Adams from defending British soldiers accused of firing into a crowd that was harassing them, in what became known as the Boston Massacre of 1770.

In fact, it's the same feeling- that oppressive, sad sense of fatigue- that I experience every time I see a commercial objectifying women.

Bosnia is not oppressive in the sense of, say, North Korea or Iran.

For Butler, sex assignment is always in some sense oppressive.

Or public protest, and you don't have to wish to protest yourself to sense the oppressive feeling that things are prohibited.

Few films are as horrific or terrifying or nauseating or divisive as Martyrs managed to be, so hopefully The Tall Man will replicate its sense of oppressive, redemption-free despair.