Being a persistent minority can be highly oppressive even if the majority does not try to act oppressively.
So it seems only right to bring you the first (but, one suspects, not the last) Guardian Cities rundown of the best things about the cities you live or work in, starting with this irrepressible description of the Bariga district of Lagos, by Craig Adekunle Adesina: "I love the oppressively humid air, the desperately ambitious people.
The family had a history of insanity; his father was oppressively, brow-beatingly religious.
Indeed, the prose in "Middlesex" is oppressively perky, with a plague of exclamation marks.
But children continue periodically to be shot and life continues to be oppressively restricted, which alongside Israel's fervent settlement-building (see article) gives ordinary Palestinians the feeling that little has changed.The deadlock is not as bad as it seems, though.
Debt, both public and private, is oppressively high in many euro-zone countries.
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation are almost 20% of revenue in New York and 15% in Turin.Eataly provides its customers with gorgeous surroundings less combative than at Harrods in London, less oppressively wholesome than at Whole Foods Markets, an American chain in which they might imagine Gianmaria and Francesca weeding the tomato plants or treading the grapes.
It was always good looking at things in China that were oppressively difficult and asking yourself how different it would be in America.You had planned to have your son in America, but complications arose and his birth took place in Beijing.
In his work the lapses in dialogue can yawn on awkwardly, even oppressively, but they tend to be more expressive than the words".Old Times", a play that premiered in 1971, is full of this electric silence.
And, even though Greece has defaulted on a record amount of sovereign bonds, its public debt will be oppressively high, at 175% of GDP.
It came against a background of almost deafening calls from the younger generation of Italians for new faces, new policies and a form of politics less oppressively dominated by the country's almighty parties.The most obvious and radical expression of their demands is in the Five Star Movement (M5S), co-founded by a former comedian, Beppe Grillo.
