Melchior and his classmates are burning up with hormones, but in a repressive society that insists on ignorance over truth, sex is never explained.
Carrie has been kept in ignorance by her repressive, mentally unstable mother Margaret White Piper Lauriee), and the sudden rush of blood reduces her to a quivering, terrified wreck as the other girls mock her.
Mexico's president, Felipe Calderón, lashed out on Sunday at unnamed countries that he said were "acting out of ignorance and disinformation" and taking "repressive, discriminatory measures".
At a time when Sydney culture was at its most conservative and repressive, Oz was, in Martin's words, against "ignorance, intolerance and corruption".
The passions of the people of Holt, many of them loners by nature, subject to the repressive conventionality of small-town America and all the restraints of poverty, ignorance, and relentless hard work, break through sometimes in violence, and sometimes in acts of outreaching compassion.
The passions of the people of Holt, many of them loners by nature, subject to the repressive conventionality of small-town America and all the restraints of poverty, ignorance, and relentless hard work, break through sometimes in violence, and sometimes in acts of outreaching compassion.
In many ways, he is the pathological symptom, the outgrowth of the repressive straitjacketing of sexual and political expression by mainstream Malaysian culture (he has said he's seeking asylum from "Malaysian ignorance" as much as its "political tyranny").
Denying gay Americans the right to marry is--it must be admitted--a kind of fascism, a form of oppression and control by which individuals blinded by ideology and fear push their repressive agenda onto our otherwise sound political system and demand that the system bend its principles to accommodate their own ignorance.
Most are repressive and unpopular.
