Sentence examples for really oppressive from inspiring English sources

"This is a really oppressive system".

"It can be really oppressive when people look down on them".

It was really oppressive; a bit like having a dozen hairdryers blasting on you at all times.

The small-town oddballs in "The Sensation of Sight" are weighted down by some obscure tragedy, but as this long, lugubrious weepie makes its way toward revelation and redemption, it becomes clear that the really oppressive thing here is the filmmaking itself.

"The feeling of it is really oppressive.

"They've gradually increased since 1987 to a point where it's really oppressive," he said. .

Writing for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Kieron Gillen called the atmosphere "genuinely oppressive" and the game's cogitation between free will and control "really quite excellent".

The more recent scholarship has suggested that the Athenians were not really very oppressive, which leaves for, I think, for them an uncomfortable question, if that's true why was there this rebellion in the years 357 to 355?

"It was really quite oppressive," he recalls.

It was really an oppressive, lonely childhood. .

"It gives me quite a kick these days to read the jurisprudence of the American courts, because whereas that society at one time seemed so liberal and free compared to ours, it really seems like an oppressive society these days.