oppressiveness
Example Sentences
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“Close” is about a lot of things — the joy of friendship, the heartache of separation and the oppressiveness of masculine stereotypes — but what it’s mostly about is the nature of its characters’ silence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
All the pictures here occur in a domestic setting, and their action knocks against the oppressiveness of their interior walls.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2021
It could create a still greater sense of closeness, stickiness, oppressiveness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2021
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
But there was an oppressiveness in the atmosphere which portended a change, and ever and anon came a low boom of thunder.
From 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War by Mitford, Bertram
