oppressiveness

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McDermott’s writing is often called “gemlike,” but that speaks to pressure as much as prettiness, as Tricia navigates war, marital strife and the increasing oppressiveness of the crowd of military wives that surrounds her.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2023

“Close” is about a lot of things — the joy of friendship, the heartache of separation and the oppressiveness of masculine stereotypes — but what it’s mostly about is the nature of its characters’ silence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

It could create a still greater sense of closeness, stickiness, oppressiveness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2021

Our own intelligence about the oppressiveness of the kind of society which would like to forget us along with other historical ‘mistakes’ should give black people a unique force in effecting change in America.

From New York Times • Jun. 13, 2020

The servant girls and gossips had fugitive peeps at me through the cracks of my door, and I felt for the first time all the oppressiveness of greatness.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred