Sentence examples for repressive is from inspiring English sources

Wendla wants information about the changes taking place inside her body, but her mother (Natacha Roi), as fearfully repressed as she is fearsomely repressive, is unable to explain that what is happening to her daughter is perfectly natural and healthy.

Nor in any society, free or repressive, is there defence against fanaticism unto death in pursuit of a cause, however madcap and hopeless.

One other country Google does name as being repressive is Vietnam.

A society that was exclusive and repressive is now freer and more open.

That does not mean one cannot be a feminist or social activist without God, but it does mean that Harris's presentation of religion as inherently repressive is just plain wrong.

The simplest model that is consistent with the data presented here, postulating the existence of two factors, one positive and one repressive, is shown in Supplementary Figure 16.

It is hard for us to imagine now how repressive was the atmosphere surrounding homosexuality in the 1950s.

Signals characterized as blocking, negative, or repressive are often experimentally observed in physiological or regulatory networks.

A repressive regime is a repressive regime, and a torture chamber a torture chamber, no matter what country you're in.

Kowtowing to repressive friends is certainly part of this episode.

Something very repressive that is reflected in our art".