Sentence examples for pretty oppressive from inspiring English sources
It was pretty oppressive in this country".
Xavier Dolan's It's Only the End of the World is histrionic and claustrophobic: deliberately oppressive and pretty well pop-eyed in its madness – and yet a brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory evocation of family dysfunction: a companion piece in some ways to the epic shouting match that was Dolan's earlier movie, Mommy.
Nothing wowza here--it all seemed cute, pretty, but ultimately it had an oppressive sameness that failed to catch me in the moment.
Then just after our little commiseration session they would go away, and pretty soon here would come an oppressive memo, or they would fire somebody and leave early in order to avoid discussing it.
The above video shows what has become a pretty rare occurence in Sudan – people getting tired of the oppressive regime and venting.
If you live in an oppressive patriarchal hypocritical regime, then this seems like a pretty good option.
Though a lot of amazing fashion has been the result of designers exploiting shitty, oppressive social conditions (think Vivienne Westwood, or Katherine Hamnett), in Dubai I'm pretty sure that the fashion will be entirely controlled by the people with money who are shitty and oppressive.
He is rather blunt and easy, and not oppressive (don't forget his roommate is gay and he seems to be pretty cool about the fact Ramona had a lesbian phase).
It was pretty enough; the hills were few and easily conquerable, and though the day was warm it wasn't oppressive.
"That is particularly oppressive.
