Many modern thinkers have criticised Christianity as a faith of repressive, life-denying killjoys; they say that by holding up asceticism as the ultimate ideal, Christianity denies the value of existence as it is enjoyed by most ordinary people, including erotic love and family life.
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Forsaking the secure but repressive routine of life in the Fishers Guild, she makes her way to a notorious Downtown bar called the KlonDyke, where she is befriended by Toni, the tough-as-nails bartender.
She believed that Communism provided the means for the nation to cleanse its people of the residue of fascism, and she continued to live in East Germany even as the repressive elements of life there made her more and more disappointed in the socialist system.
The capitalist performance principle (the maximization of production and profit) has actually created the preconditions for a qualitatively different and non-repressive form of life.
Essence presents itself as the possibility of a free non-alienating, non-repressive form of life within a particular historical, social/political structure.
This is a magical moment in a movie in which Davies, his cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, production designer James Merifield and costume designer Ruth Myers masochistically capture a key period in British life, a repressed and repressive time.
Under Mr. Chávez repressive elements of daily life coexist with humane social-welfare policies.
The same isn't always true of young male migrants exchanging life under repressive regimes, where they may at least have enjoyed superiority over women, for scraping by at the bottom of Europe's social and economic food chain.
(Rooney) 'Play It Cool' (in previews; opens on Sept. 14) Martin Casella and Larry Dean Harris wrote the book, Mark Winkler penned the lyrics and Phillip Swann composed the score for this jazz-inflected new musical set in an underground nightclub, about the secret codes and furtive behavior that conditioned gay and lesbian life in repressive early-1950s Hollywood.
