"repressed feelings" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to emotions that are held back or suppressed, often due to fear, shame, or societal expectations. Example: "Throughout their marriage, Sarah struggled with repressed feelings of anger towards her husband, unable to express her true emotions for fear of upsetting him."
When they are premenstrual, it can all feel too much, and repressed feelings come out.
"I reached a point when I had to stop with the metaphors if I was going to work out all these repressed feelings".
I will not have it said my name is soiled!" she says — and to project her dark, violent, repressed feelings onto others.
On the face of it, it would seem that Britain has changed; but is it possible that the David Lean-Noël Coward film is still the model for repressed feelings as an English ideal?
The leaden atmosphere is familiar to me, having spent part of my own childhood in surroundings almost as lustreless, and in an atmosphere that also had a timbre of extreme sadness, repressed feelings, secrets, the unspoken.
His immaculately judged orchestral writing not only delineates the opera's darkly intense emotional world – underpinning each and every shift in the volatile though frequently repressed feelings of the central couple – but also supplying wonderful aural scene-painting, especially at such evocative points as the moonlight interlude towards the end of Act 1.
In the pastor who turns away from love: Jamie Ballard bubbles with repressed feeling.
It was from years and years and years of repressed feeling from never getting the big shot at something.
Still, it said something about a repressed feeling and was the most riveting European moment in a long time.
The scenes in the sisters' apartment -- which, in an effective, mildly gloomy set by Mark Symczak, shares the stage with the studio of the blocked artist -- teem with repressed feeling.
Rattigan is suddenly all the rage, although, of course, in Chichester the theatrical patron saint of repressed feeling, wells of loneliness, situational chat and unspoken desire has never gone out of fashion.
