straitjacket

The fate of a franchise depends on cramming them into a vast, complex puzzle of resource allocation that’s harder to navigate than a swimming pool in a straitjacket.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

She tells the paper schools have been in a "straitjacket" of prioritising academic subjects, leading to many young people being "left behind", with a million currently not in training or work.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Granted it’s one in which Neill, strapped in a straitjacket, screams things like “I’m not insane!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Locking money into a restricted account felt like voluntarily returning to the kind of financial straitjacket they just escaped, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

And if you think having Problems in American Democracy is a fun way to end the day, you need a snug-fitting straitjacket.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

As Geoff Dyer stresses in his penetrating introduction, Lawrence ignores genre straitjackets as he blends travel writing, memoir, philosophical musings, storytelling and a novelist’s flair for portraiture and description.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2019

Then the lights went up, the walkways started moving, and out came the models — barefoot, staring catatonically ahead, in white clothing that resembled nothing so much as straitjackets of many styles.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019

To start: Immobile models were conveyed down a moving runway wearing white canvas straitjackets - the most extreme expression of the uniforms that Alessandro Michele called “a strong sign of oppression.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

The report also noted the use of straitjackets and Dr Milner's patchy record keeping; both were against standard practice.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2019

Straitlaced people who go over the edge may find themselves in straitjackets.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

It’s the one that feels most weirdly and defiantly its own thing, the one least straitjacketed by Marvel conventions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

Today, the Mississippi is little more than a massive canal, straitjacketed by earthen walls and traversed by massive freighters moving cargo bound for places as far north as Wisconsin.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2021

Glass’s lyric setting has often felt straitjacketed by attempts to wedge words into his repetitive musical patterns.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2019

And so it was, that justice handcuffed, straitjacketed, blistered, and impartial, sent from its bed of torture a beam through Cooper's tough hide to his inner heart.

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

In 1939, as the straitjacketing of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

In other words, Cohen accuses traditional sensory science of artificially straitjacketing tasters in order to achieve a false objectivity.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018

They seemed to enjoy the idea, he added, “that these forces were straitjacketing them, whether it was true or not.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012

The straitjacketing of the Mississippi began with an obnoxious Army engineer named Andrew Humphreys, who lost 3,000 soldiers in the charge at Fredericksburg and later marveled, "I felt more like a god than a man!"

From Time ● May 12, 2011

We end up rooting for him and against ourselves--since all those straitjacketing studio decisions are based on a thorough knowledge of what we will pay for at the box office.

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