oppressiveness

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McDermott’s writing is often called “gemlike,” but that speaks to pressure as much as prettiness, as Tricia navigates war, marital strife and the increasing oppressiveness of the crowd of military wives that surrounds her.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023

“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

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

In its times of least oppressiveness it was an enormity, if he were innocent.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)