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He contends that the league’s “baked-in racism” mirrors oppressive forces across the country.

Maybe they could be into the scene design by Anthony Robles — it’s super minimal, but it does so much for the space in creating this oppressive world.

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There is an oppressive notion that anyone not in a happy family has failed at life.

At that point, there’s still another hour to go of extreme close-ups, oppressive sound design and surreal images that would keep David Lynch awake at night.

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Her poems ranged from swampy oppressive memories of Florida to the nature of poetry to musings on hypocritical activists.

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