oppressiveness
Example Sentences
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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
The parable Mitchell constructs actually does have broader philosophical underpinnings: It seems intended to evoke the oppressiveness of economic hierarchies.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
It’s a space, says Silton, “that has this sense of oppressiveness inside.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2017
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
But, in an interview with Bismarck at Ferrières, on September 19, he realized the oppressiveness of the German demands.
From A History of the Third French Republic by C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad) Wright
