Sentence examples similar to straitjacket style from inspiring English sources
Mr. Ford's best looks came early in the show: slouchy pants in ivory cotton canvas worn with shrugging T-shirts or loose manila suede jackets tied straitjacket-style in the front.
Hall's top mimics a straitjacket the way it fits (and pulls) across the arms.
Style, of course, has never been a straitjacket: witness the contrast between two 1927 recordings of "Dove sono" from "Le Nozze di Figaro": one with the majesty of Meta Seinemeyer; the other, the lighter clarity of Ninon Vallin.
The ruling party's relentless anti-Dalai propaganda, reminiscent in some ways of the Cultural Revolution-style vilification of its enemies, has left the leadership in a self-imposed straitjacket.
There can be no such bond between former (and perhaps future) rivals, particularly when they have such marked differences of generation and style.David Broder, of the Washington Post, worries that Mrs Clinton will escape from Mr Obama's straitjacket and try to fashion an independent foreign policy ("He needs an agent, not an author").
"It wasn't a concreted-over straitjacket".
"Is that a straitjacket?" shouted another.
When does an expertise become a straitjacket?
Surrounded by guards and wearing a straitjacket, he impulsively bursts into the opening bars of "Oklahoma!" It's all a spoof, of course, expertly done in a loose-jointed, semideadpan style.
"Get me a straitjacket!" she cries.
