Sentence examples for quite oppressive from inspiring English sources

"The anti-genealogical movement is quite oppressive; this is just data after all," Kenneally says.

But then the industry side of it is so rigorous, and quite oppressive, and that started to feel," she pauses, "eurgh".

Suddenly, the notion of "wearing the trousers" seems quite oppressive, and yet wearing a skirt makes you liable for intimate photographic invasion at all times.

Depending on your point of view, these would either offer a glorious view of the land you're flying over (they're much bigger than the windows) or be quite oppressive (they're screens after all, and there's no natural light).

It was quite fun but I got a lot more interested in the copyright saga and the idea of the Stationers' Company as this really quite powerful and in some respects quite oppressive company.

A hell where everything converges: endless migrant traffic down the muddy, potholed road, hordes of haggard, hot-blooded young men no doubt in an advanced state of sexual deprivation, and on the other hand, the reassuring but quite oppressive presence of riot police vans, parking right in front of her house then roaring off.

It had quite an oppressive feel to a child.

Historically, like Communist Romania, enterprise software has been highly restrictive, inflexible, slow-to-change, slow in general and, quite frankly, oppressive.

Its chief forecaster, Martin Young, said: "While it will be hot in the South East, we're not expecting wall-to-wall sunshine and it will feel quite humid and oppressive over the weekend.

Writers, of course, have a special power, one which is quite threatening to oppressive governments: the power to use, shape, and mold that most hot-iron thing, the word, to spread cultural messages and expose political lies and mistreatment.

But none of these sterling performers can quite escape the movie's oppressive, downward pull.