Sentence examples for repress the thought from inspiring English sources
Best to just repress the thought.
James Weldon Johnson's 1912 novel, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," does not end with the protagonist's unmasking or physical pain, but he comes to deeply regret his life's path, saying, "I cannot repress the thought that, after all, I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage".
I won't repress the thought, but try to be detached from it and see where the thought goes.
By the time I escaped it all years later, I had been anorexic long enough to want nothing of it, and so I repressed the thoughts and feelings that had trapped me.
I try to repress the first thought that comes to my mind, which is that the chair has housed the sweaty butts of countless orgasming men.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recommended Heins' study for summer nonfiction reading in its "Family Matters" section, and it was called "a thorough exploration of our national preoccupation with repressing the sexual thoughts of youth" by the St .Petersburg Times.
Previously, when their desires to make changes in their lives came up, my students would repress these thoughts with their left brains.
You catch yourself - stop the thoughts, repress them.
This sense of the future loss, when they might loose their home, was so strong and so threatening that the thought of it only emerged momentarily before it was consciously repressed.
Fear of childbirth was significant in some women, and one woman dealt with this by repressing all thought of the upcoming delivery; she also experienced the delivery as retraumatising.
