oppressiveness
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Although the strange oppressiveness of collective adulation isn’t new, it is becoming far more ubiquitous – and insidious – in the attention economy.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
The parable Mitchell constructs actually does have broader philosophical underpinnings: It seems intended to evoke the oppressiveness of economic hierarchies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
You can only be in southern Italy for so long before the subject comes up — the oppressiveness that hangs over everything like a low cloud cover that never burns off.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2018
And let’s not forget the most fashion-forward prison outfits in film history, which combine the precious charm of Wes Anderson with the oppressiveness of a penal system.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2018
The kind of emotion which this examination, joined to the oppressiveness of the air, occasioned, was choking the baron.
From A Romance of the West Indies by Eugène Sue
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