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
It could create a still greater sense of closeness, stickiness, oppressiveness.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2021
You can only be in southern Italy for so long before the subject comes up — the oppressiveness that hangs over everything like a low cloud cover that never burns off.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 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
To the representations of the German and French Bishops against the oppressiveness and injustice to the minority of the order of business, the Pope has not seen fit to make any reply.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger
