For Packer's protagonists, it carries the full weight of repressive convention, a catalog of Shalls and Shall Nots.
On a deeper level, Gay suggests, Mann in his fiction sought reprisal against repressive sexual conventions.
Dreiser's characters struggle for self-realization in the face of society's narrow and repressive moral conventions, and they often obtain material success and erotic gratification while a more enduring spiritual satisfaction eludes them.
Such repressive rule must be prevented.
You are in the grip of repressive laws and conventions, class differences that signal privilege versus shame, or disdain versus resentment; family secrets and private fears and evasions.
The story: Essentially a critique of repressive British social convention, A Room With a View opens at the Pension Bertolini in Florence, where Lucy Honeychurch is staying with her cousin Charlotte Bartlett.
Both endured decades of repressive authoritarian rule.
Ms. Sedgwick was an equal opportunity radical, though, and upset some gay people who rejected her notion that all societal rules and conventions regarding sex were repressive.
Egyptian rule was generally repressive.
Indeed, the cat-and-mouse dynamic between protesters and police that invariably plays out at each convention (mainly as a result of repressive tactics by the state) forces activists to seek out more meaningful moments and sites of confrontation.
A similarly rigged convention then agreed to all manner of repressive proposals such as reserving a quarter of seats in the national parliament and a third in regional ones for the army.
