straitjacket

As I have written before, Hoover Dam made today’s West, but also strapped it into the straitjacket of an implacable water shortage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Hopkins wore this orange prison uniform, straitjacket and muzzle when Lecter is transported under heavy security, strapped upright to a hand truck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

For all its aspiration of freedom, it is a straitjacket that cannot be removed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

He was seen as a deft negotiator of the centre ground, triangulating his way out of the straitjacket of traditional left-right politics.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025

I’m imagining Dr. Katz calling an ambulance to come get me, teen-sized straitjacket and the works, when my mother comes back out.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

He also became an escape artist in the manner of Harry Houdini, thrilling crowds by extricating himself from straitjackets, bank safes and jails.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 21, 2020

There were straitjackets that looked like giant coveralls, straitjacket smocks, straitjacket anoraks.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2019

To start: Immobile models were conveyed down a moving runway wearing white canvas straitjackets - the most extreme expression of the uniforms that Alessandro Michele called “a strong sign of oppression.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

The report also noted the use of straitjackets and Dr Milner's patchy record keeping; both were against standard practice.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2019

Straitlaced people who go over the edge may find themselves in straitjackets.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Try that as one of 47 straitjacketed senators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

Straightened, dredged and straitjacketed the rivers with levees.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2022

These steep-sided, straitjacketed streams lost the ability to spill onto their floodplains and recharge aquifers.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2018

While the Romantics message each other, straitjacketed lunatics cavort onto Alfred Schatz’s decrepit set, accompanied by live musicians.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2017

And so it was, that justice handcuffed, straitjacketed, blistered, and impartial, sent from its bed of torture a beam through Cooper's tough hide to his inner heart.

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

In 1939, as the straitjacketing of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

In other words, Cohen accuses traditional sensory science of artificially straitjacketing tasters in order to achieve a false objectivity.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018

They seemed to enjoy the idea, he added, “that these forces were straitjacketing them, whether it was true or not.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2012

The straitjacketing of the Mississippi began with an obnoxious Army engineer named Andrew Humphreys, who lost 3,000 soldiers in the charge at Fredericksburg and later marveled, "I felt more like a god than a man!"

From Time ● May 12, 2011

Though labor and industry grumbled at his straitjacketing of wages and prices, the rise in the cost of living was only 18%, compared to a U.S. rise of 25%.

From Time Magazine Archive