Sentence examples for oppressive weight from inspiring English sources

The thick slab of a roof only adds to the composition's oppressive weight.

"Lincoln" yields little but what Spielberg intended; it rises and falls on the oppressive weight of the director's authority.

Experts say Japan's failure to treat depression has deep roots in the country's culture, from the oppressive weight of shame to the organization of the medical profession.

A walk through the capital became a journey to an unfamiliar place, as the buildings lost their oppressive weight and its residents cast off their hard edges.

With all the oppressive weight of her misery projected onto him, it's no wonder he seems to stagger around the house.

Even the love affairs in his film are rotted out by the pursuit of money and power and the oppressive weight of tradition.

Here the skies smother with their oppressive gray weight, sheep bleat depressingly in sodden fields, light struggles to lift itself above the claustrophobic hedges.

The very best movies of the year are works of hard-won freedom, reflecting the exertion to overcome external or internal obstacles, horrific and violent persecutions, or the oppressive psychological weight of personal habits or inherited styles.

How much longer will this increasingly oppressive, unbearable weight press down on us?" And, several paragraphs on, "What will we do if we're ever... no, I mustn't write that down.

The idealized guests occupied a world where work is lightly juggled alongside a diverse and eclectic social life and adorable offspring: a utopia that is as far from the vision that won Trump the election as it is from the oppressive Shakespearean weight of the brand's name.

But ultimately, the personal and political themes that emerge from the reading, together with the incantatory tone of Duras's recitation and Depardieu's surprisingly halting punctuations, invoke vast, marmoreal silences — the convergence of forbidding inner depths and the oppressive, invisible weight of history.