oppressiveness
Example Sentences
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Although the strange oppressiveness of collective adulation isn’t new, it is becoming far more ubiquitous – and insidious – in the attention economy.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
That’s likely intentional, since the paintings are so attuned to the oppressiveness of interior spaces.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
But the family — mother, brother, sister, sister-in-law — quickly splinters into bitterness and infighting, an oppressiveness Dolan highlights with quick cuts between extreme close-ups.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2016
It was possible that the strange oppressiveness in the atmosphere affected him, to the exaggeration of that which was on his mind, to wit the very disagreeable burden of the news he had just received.
From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Bertram Mitford
