Sentence examples for social repression from inspiring English sources

Following World War II, during a period of social repression when governments actively persecuted homosexuals, women developed networks to socialize with and educate each other.

Social repression lingers.

The prison population will grow even faster than under Labour as populist social repression intensifies.

What is more remarkable is that they shared the same subject: the protest of life against social repression.

But the Pansy Craze was quickly snuffed out when 1929's economic crash snowballed into the Great Depression, unleashing a new wave of religious bigotry and social repression.

They wanted their art to be sensational, not only in response to social repression but also as an antidote to the high modernism embraced by museums.

All of those social repressions and emotional eruptions, the erotic longings and spiritual ambitions: some were glimpses of "the great and beautiful... that which so to speak has stood higher than my daily self"; the rest, "the dregs and sediments of one's own nature," lay beneath, like toxic waste.

His previous films have dealt with the construction of identity amid the social repressions of the 1950s, the utopian passions and sexual freedoms of the '60s and '70s, and the culture wars and New Age philosophies of the '80s and '90s.

Immigration consists of peoples' movement for resettlement from sending countries to receiving countries due to (1) political and social repressions in the home country or political immigration caused by dictatorial home governments such as the Syrian exodus.

Each has four dancers; each is addressing aspects of social behavior, repression, underlying drives.

Stephan Elliott's film threw off the shackles of social fear and repression and celebrated freedom.