oppressiveness

Example Sentences

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The temperature could in no way be blamed for any sensations of impending oppressiveness we might have felt.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2022

The symbolism around lack of identity is obvious to the point of oppressiveness: clouds of smoke, hosts of theater costumes in Ella’s garret.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2021

Our own intelligence about the oppressiveness of the kind of society which would like to forget us along with other historical ‘mistakes’ should give black people a unique force in effecting change in America.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2020

But the family — mother, brother, sister, sister-in-law — quickly splinters into bitterness and infighting, an oppressiveness Dolan highlights with quick cuts between extreme close-ups.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2016

To the representations of the German and French Bishops against the oppressiveness and injustice to the minority of the order of business, the Pope has not seen fit to make any reply.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von