Sentence examples for repressive constraint from inspiring English sources

For example, Gong Xian, a Nanjing artist whose budding political career was cut short by the Manchu conquest, used repetitive forms and strong tonal contrasts to convey a pervasive feeling of repressive constraint, lonely isolation, and gloom in his landscapes (most impressive is his Thousand Peaks and Myriad Ravines in the Rietberg Museum, Zürich, Switzerland; C.A. Drenowatz Collection).

Mr. Melnikov suggests that Shostakovich, who had to withstand the repressive constraints of Soviet cultural authorities, consciously chose to limit himself in writing his preludes and fugues, almost as a creative exercise in working within aesthetic confines.

And there were comments in interviews about her hard-won liberation from the repressive constraints of the Disney machine.

The effort to liberate individuals from repressive social constraints didn't produce a flowering of freedom; it weakened families, increased out-of-wedlock births and turned neighbors into strangers.

In this scenario, CAMP is recruited to the acidic patch of PhoQ resulting in conformational changes in the PD overcoming any repressive structural constraints between α4 and α5 and the α/β-core.

Defiant resistance in the face of this threat is seen by the occupier as extremely dangerous to its position and control and is used as a rationale for even more repressive and collective constraints on the entire occupied population.

These predictions stem from the expected repressive effect of constraints on the ability to improvise.

In the absence of the constraints of repressive military dictators, there will eventually be a blossoming of a broad spectrum of ideologies and theologies, but also, deeply rooted social conflict, as these very different world views clash in a newly found freedom not experienced in the region for centuries.

Jesus' message that "The truth will set you free" is at odds with constraints imposed under repressive forms of government, he said.

Here, Hoover, a dedicated law-enforcement officer, is also struggling with, or against, his homosexual desires; Eastwood shows Hoover's desperate effort to foster a stereotypically macho image of his masculinity and to broadcast it and how Hoover's sense of secrecy, fear, anger, and constraint turned him paranoid and repressive.

Boryana — or the actress Chichikova — has huge eyes that seem made for the epithet "soulful"; the character's gaze is marked by a rueful detachment from the world around her, a contemptuous defiance of the lies and constraints on which daily life under a repressive regime is based.