Sentence examples for oppressive things from inspiring English sources

"Time and again, Chinese told me they did not fully realize how oppressive things were at home until after they had left," French wrote.

The small-town oddballs in "The Sensation of Sight" are weighted down by some obscure tragedy, but as this long, lugubrious weepie makes its way toward revelation and redemption, it becomes clear that the really oppressive thing here is the filmmaking itself.

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

If America is going to dig itself out from under our oppressive national debt, two things must happen.

Alternatively, you can resist the temptation to coast and push a professional agenda that is now less oppressive and, no small thing, more likely to yield money.

Yet the one thing the oppressive new generation of television programming does have going for it is that you never even have to consider re-watching them: there are patently not enough hours in this life.

Yes, it's supposed to be the future, but you look at the whole reality television thing, violence, oppressive governments.

Few things are as oppressive in Pakistan as the summer heat.

Acknowledgment of the death of God is a bomb that blows up many things, not just oppressive traditionalism, but also values like compassion and the equality of human dignity on which support for a tolerant liberal political order is based.

McGregor's performance has sincerity of a frowningly oppressive kind, but the whole thing is tinged with self-pity.

One thing that makes city life inspiring is also one thing that makes it oppressive: other people.