Sentence examples for sound oppressive from inspiring English sources
This might sound oppressive, but in fact Benedict is almost comically pragmatic and forgiving.
It sounds the way the documentaries look: grim, grey and possessed of an almost wilful ugliness, the latter evident everywhere in sound – oppressive distorted guitars; rhythms that either lumber groggily along or charge at you with eyes bulging, as if they've been at "Mad" John's "pep pills"; vocals that growl, bellow, rasp nasally in post-Dylan style or occasionally bleat like a goat.
By contrast, Alan Smith of the NME found the dense sound oppressive and regarded the song as "inconsequential … one of the weaker tracks, although it's not short on dressing".
Disney's hypersensitive acoustics have never responded well to amplified music, and to my ears the sound became oppressive, although the gentleman who did a paganistic touchdown dance in the aisle next to me obviously disagreed.
That doesn't sound too oppressive does it?
To someone like Powers, this might have sounded faintly oppressive: the President telling citizens what jokes not to tell.
In this sense it is a new word, an explosion of sound in an oppressive silence.
Despite three terrific performances, there is a threadbare feeling to Donal Gallagher's staging: ill-fitting costumes, awkward lighting cues, oppressive sound design.
The music kept coming, and by the final work, "Les Travaux et les Jours" ("Works and Days"), a lengthy piece written for the concert, the qualities that had seemed so fresh in "Comme un Oeil" came to sound like an oppressive stream of tinkly treble figures and brutal chords.
The revolution seemed to have subtly but firmly tinctured the atmosphere across the Middle East, so that the old language, used for so many years by Arab dictators to justify their rule, suddenly sounded not just oppressive but absurd, laughable.
She comes to New York to attend a postmasters' convention and gets involved with a greeting-cards salesman in her hotel.Does that sound a wee bit oppressive?
