Yet it has to be more than a coincidence that women are always the ones made to sacrifice and wear oppressive styles of clothing -- even in the stifling summer heat.
Success Academy was also caught trying to drive out children and families who could not adapt to their punitive disciplinary rules and oppressive teaching style.
Older scholars who had been persecuted by the authorities in the past were protected there, and many younger ones were guided through an oppressive Soviet-style system in which their political views might otherwise have destroyed careers aborning.
Joseph Tate, likening the art to the paintings of French artist Jean Dubuffet, found it depicted a "homogenized and heavily regimented" portrayal of "capitalism's glaring visual presence: an oppressive sameness of style and color that mirrors globalization's reduction of difference".
What these social field examples demonstrate is the emergence of a new We; it's not the old-style oppressive collective, but a new We that helps the learners to connect to their deepest sources of intention and creativity.
The film takes great advantage of the oppressive "New Brutalism" architectural style which the filmmakers were thrilled to find and utilize in Mexico City, and compounds the matter by placing much of the action in sleazy dens of iniquity.
I found the stage-style acting oppressive during the close-up scenes: stage and screen acting are very different.
Dominik's direction, with its simulacrum of style, is not oppressive or retentive but repressive: he never conveys the sense that he knows more than he's saying, but, rather, that he's content with what he knows and shows of their world and you ought to be, too.
It also suggests why contemporaneous developments in America lagged well behind the Dutch paradigm, and gives lie to the postmodernist canard that the International style was a soulless, oppressive conspiracy of technocrats bent on conformist social engineering.
It was from this position of Islamic scholarship that Montazeri called into question the authority of the leader, Ali Khamenei, saying he lacked the necessary Islamic credentials and that his style of leadership was "oppressive".
