straitjacket
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“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
For all its aspiration of freedom, it is a straitjacket that cannot be removed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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
He was seen as a deft negotiator of the centre ground, triangulating his way out of the straitjacket of traditional left-right politics.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
Perhaps the place freed him from a straitjacket of grief.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Humanmade levees, dikes and other flood-control measures act like straitjackets on these rivers.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
Montgomery’s school board president, William R. Thomas III, said, “We’ve been concerned in recent years with the stereotyped nature of school architecture,” referring to the “brick and mortar straitjackets of education.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
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
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
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
He wanted to be able to make his own entertainment, he told me, because so much around him felt straitjacketed, “trying to make different versions of the same thing.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
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
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
Threats of "we will strike" commit us to further straitjacketing the school systems with more specialization.
From Time Magazine Archive
