Sentence examples for oppressively heavy from inspiring English sources

His little figures are dwarfed by dreary surrounds, be they cavernous, damp walls or the oppressively heavy pattern of a fancy carpet.

An oppressively heavy gothic atmosphere squeezes most of the shocks out of the Irish ghost story "The Lodgers". But for viewers who take it more as a moody, metaphorical historical drama than as an out-and-out horror film, there's a lot in this lush-looking, sensitively acted picture to recommend.

It also has Beats Audio built in, which improves music fidelity without the oppressively bass heavy found in some Beats products.

Still, he says, he finds his new prominence oppressively hard to escape.

The revolution that replaced the shah in Iran created an oppressively top-heavy constitutional structure.

An oppressively hot July is predicted, and Armstrong does not enjoy heavy heat.

The large portrait of John Terry hanging oppressively close, perhaps.

These balances are difficult to strike in a region where oppressively hot and dry weather can easily deliver too much of the former, but where heavy rains, if they arrive at the wrong time, can still rob the wines of concentration and ripeness.

Being a persistent minority can be highly oppressive even if the majority does not try to act oppressively.

The mood was convivial and the sound was appropriately sharp and loud, but not oppressively so.

In the oppressively hot summer of 1858, London was overwhelmed by what the papers called "the Great Stink".