Sentence examples for under a tyranny from inspiring English sources

We live under a "tyranny of the experts", Hertz writes.

"This guarded mode of existence was like living under a tyranny," the narrator says in "My Ántonia".

The fact that some people, at least, looked to the poets for resistance, for poetry that was itself an act of resistance, seems to be part of the response to your question: if poetry is read as, itself, resistance, then it is a way for a writer to resist--even under a tyranny.

How can a writer resist under a tyranny--while "an empire's gearshifts creak behind" her, as you put it?

If we were persuaded that conditions under domestic violence are analogous to those under a political tyranny, then some of the popular beliefs we've seen about domestic violence victims might be recognized as equally absurd (53).

They suffer under a self-imposed tyranny: the tyranny of choice.

An artist living among barbarians, a social critic living under tyranny, a scientist living in the age of superstition, a prophet living among nonbelievers, a doubter living in faith communities, each has little option but to be a bioluminescent being.

Ten years later, under a crushing Stalinist tyranny, he is a security officer exiled to the middle of nowhere for refusing to denounce his wife in a creepy Abrahamic obedience test, but who doggedly insists on staying on the trail of a serial killer of little boys.

President of PEN Eritrea in exile, Ghirmai Negash, describes Sactism "as a new genre in Eritrean writing, the importance of which lies in its subversive power in the context of a nation under tyranny".

Perhaps a person who rejects love and nature (for the two are often connected in Turgenev's work) is not unlike a country living under tyranny – both states inflict a grief similar to the one Bersyenev feels once he is back in the privacy of his room, when he senses "something dark and secret" entering his heart and is overcome with a sadness that has nothing noble in it.

Under the tyranny of a ticking clock and the torture of space constraints, generations of editors compressed monumental triumphs and defeats into some meaningful order and into a few stark words.