They walked for hours under the oppressive morning sun.
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.
But so was the tidy historic downtown, the toasty but not yet oppressive Southern sun and the pervasive scent of honeysuckle, which apparently actually happens in Georgia towns.
UNDER an oppressive desert sun, 1,500 revelers squeeze in and around a complex of pools at the Palms resort, showing off their dance moves and late-summer tans.
For what purpose would they forgo the creature comforts of air-conditioning to assemble under an oppressive summer sun?
With the oppressive heat, sun, and long gaps of unnerving silence between calls to prayer, it wasn't a particularly hospitable environment for humans.
The conference Andy Arias planned to attend on a recent weekday was less than a mile from his apartment in downtown Los Angeles, but he called an Uber to stay out of the oppressive summer sun.
Early in the book, Camus links the death of Meursault's mother with the oppressive, ever-present sun, so that when we get to the climactic beach scene, we see the symbolism: sun equals loss of mother, sun causes Meursault to pull the trigger.
You might want the ros?ibrantly cold, to offset a hot sun or oppressive humidity.
It's fairly complex stuff, and occasionally a heavy hand gets the better of the kitchen and the summer sun turns oppressive.
