Sentence examples for oppressive values from inspiring English sources

By filming solid citizens engaged in the ordinary pursuit of tranquil happiness, he was able to reveal, with a quiet fury, the false, blind, and oppressive values on which that respectable society was built.

The authenticity constraint is meant to address both experience machine-type worries and "happy slave" objections relating to adaptation, where happiness may be non-autonomous, depending on manipulation or the uncritical acceptance of oppressive values.

"The blame," he writes, can be placed on "an oppressive value system based primarily upon the absolute certainty that nothing in this world was ever going to change".

But it's the opposite: a woman giving oppressive Victorian values a huge V sign.

While reproductive technologies like IVF may help some (privileged) women get what they want, they also further entrench the oppressive societal values that create these powerful desires in the first place.

Fascism foments and relies on xenophobic nationalism, racism, and the aggressive reinstitution of oppressive "traditional values".

The NWS warns that temperatures in the upper 90s will combine with "oppressive humidity values to result in dangerous high heat".

Trump claimed that we are letting people into the country who have "oppressive views and values".

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.

For if an agent such as the student mentioned above has so effectively internalized oppressive norms that she values them and treats them as her ends, then it is questionable whether they are genuinely her own.

"The Handmaid's Tale" premieres Wednesday, April 26 on Hulu.