straitjacket

As I have written before, Hoover Dam made today’s West, but also strapped it into the straitjacket of an implacable water shortage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

“I feel trapped in a tuxedo, like I have claustrophobia,” Almodóvar says, hugging his body as if he’s wearing a straitjacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

And she suggested replacing the contentious Let's Create strategy, which she said was widely seen as a straitjacket, "stifling artistic innovation and creativity".

From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2025

When they bound Shadrack into a straitjacket, he was both relieved and grateful, for his hands were at last hidden and confined to whatever size they had attained.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

These included freeing himself from chains, ropes, and straitjackets under water.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

This extends to the actual garments, items like argyle straitjackets that many would consider too wacky to wear.

From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2022

If Corsi and Fenwick get me, call the guys with the straitjackets.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020

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

She learns surveillance techniques, performs backflips, and masters the removal of handcuffs and straitjackets.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

Try that as one of 47 straitjacketed senators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

These steep-sided, straitjacketed streams lost the ability to spill onto their floodplains and recharge aquifers.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2018

While the Romantics message each other, straitjacketed lunatics cavort onto Alfred Schatz’s decrepit set, accompanied by live musicians.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2017

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

Mr. Wright analyzes China’s economic struggles through the lens of its financial system, arguing that the country’s problems are bigger and more straitjacketing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

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