Sentence examples for repressive parents from inspiring English sources

It has skeptical, repressive parents.

Sater and Sheik have framed "Spring Awakening" as a familiar saga of frustrated youth, of lusty adolescents defying repressive parents and despotic teachers.

Really to savor the show, it still helps to imagine joyless souls -- repressive parents or balky advertisers, stupefied by political correctness or Christian moralism -- tsk-tsk-ing in a distant living room.

They read Ayn Rand in 10th grade and, bursting with a sense of their own independence (and anger at their repressive parents!), they see themselves as John Galt.

Popular culture writers claim that this generation of teens is thriving because of their unrestrained online lives, which allow them to escape supposedly repressive parents.

Back then, it was all about rebellion and what he found wrong with a world full of repressive parents, teachers and institutions that tried to rein in his budding need for self-expression.

Rashly, she breaks off her engagement to a solid but repressive financier, scandalising her parents and exiling herself to France.

My feeling is that repressive regimes repress.

Many parents, legislators and repressive governments fear the Internet for the same reason.

She tells of a loveless and repressive childhood, in which her parents, she claimed, "blamed me for everything," and she often felt like an outcast.

Parents may deny access, but repressive regimes can and do burn books, imprison authors and publishers, and punish readers, for reasons that can defy logic.