oppressiveness

Example Sentences

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The temperature could in no way be blamed for any sensations of impending oppressiveness we might have felt.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2022

The symbolism around lack of identity is obvious to the point of oppressiveness: clouds of smoke, hosts of theater costumes in Ella’s garret.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2021

But the oppressiveness of the music and the over-intensity of the staging never allow you to laugh at, and therefore enjoy, the ludicrousness of the story.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2018

It’s a space, says Silton, “that has this sense of oppressiveness inside.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2017

That dreamy sense of unreality had clung to her with painful oppressiveness and with many a vague longing.

From Success and How He Won It by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)