Apparently he's not even "almost as good" as his brother, as he's been trying to escape from a strait jacket for six and a half minutes.
A more self-confident Germany is gradually easing itself out of the strait-jacket of its marriage with France.
In Tuesday's election, three voter choices showed that people will throw off the strait-jacket of conventional wisdom if properly persuaded.
The film cash-in on the lethally popular TV show does its best to make such a transition as difficult as possible by capitalising on its liberation from the strait-jacket of broadcast censorship.
From the mid-50s onwards, the strait-jacket of the story (boy-girl-conflict-resolution) mattered far more than any wise-cracking shyster the studio might hire to play in it.
Since I see no constitutional requirement of due process sufficient to overcome the legislative judgment of the States in this area, I dissent from further strait-jacketing of an already overly restricted system.
Concurrently, since my retirement, I have been learning much about the archaeology of Iron-Age Eurasia as part of an attempt to put pressure on the category of the "Germanic" — one that has long been enshrined in Anglo-Saxon studies to the possible strait-jacketing of the field.
Geoff Dyer puts this adversarial relationship well in "Out of Sheer Rage," his book about, around, and through D. H. Lawrence, in which he makes an argument against general cirrhosis of the novel, and in favor of the healthy freedom of the essay: Increasingly, the process of novelisation goes hand in hand with a strait-jacketing of the material's expressive potential.
It has survived despite the efforts of successive rulers and bureaucracies in Kabul to bring it within the strait-jacket of a modern nation-state, on the questionable assumption that the European construct of the nation-state was a summum bonum, a kind of political form of organization that is self-evident, a 'natural' culmination of all societies.
This was the man who undertook to extricate himself from a strait jacket at the beginning of the evening & was still writhing desperately in the lobby as the audience filed out on its way home.
