straitjacket

Opinion is divided on whether these are sensible building blocks for the economy which allow living standards to improve, or a "dysfunctional" economic straitjacket.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

For all its aspiration of freedom, it is a straitjacket that cannot be removed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

The first three weeks saw an 8-year-old aerialist, a 74-year-old comedian, a laser-performing duo from Vietnam and a Las Vegas magician who hung from the ceiling in a straitjacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026

My nightmare started out as something I’d dreamed a million times before: I was being forced to take a standardized test while wearing a straitjacket.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

There were straitjackets that looked like giant coveralls, straitjacket smocks, straitjacket anoraks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019

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

The report also noted the use of straitjackets and Dr Milner's patchy record keeping; both were against standard practice.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2019

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

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

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

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

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2018

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

We end up rooting for him and against ourselves--since all those straitjacketing studio decisions are based on a thorough knowledge of what we will pay for at the box office.

From Time Magazine Archive