oppressiveness
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“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
It could create a still greater sense of closeness, stickiness, oppressiveness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2021
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
A thunderstorm, passing quickly over, and merely sprinkling the trees and bushes with a few drops of Heaven's balsam, had relieved the sultry oppressiveness of the day.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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