| 单词 | oppressive |
| 例句 | But China and Japan never developed that kind of oppressive feudal system, because feudalism simply can’t work in a rice economy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The sky remained as cloudless as ever, and the heat was even more oppressive than usual. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The air outside sat as still and oppressive as the air inside. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Logs burned day and night in fireplaces despite the oppressive heat, and gunpowder and other noxious chemicals were tossed in frequently. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The sky was overcast, the air hot, muggy, oppressive, yet there was something in it that made his spine tingle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In civics class a great deal was said about oppressive Soviet policies; but at no time did I hear classical Marxism explained. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The day felt heavy and oppressive as he crossed the bailey back to the Tower of die Hand. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Wow,” I said, but my voice cracked like a kid who suddenly realized he was alone inside the bedroom of the girl he loved, which made sense, considering the oppressive reality of my surrounding conditions. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Look to the Southeast, where, as Taylor has noted, “colonial societies sustained a slave system more oppressive than anything practiced in Europe” and “the slave-owners relied on Indians to catch runaways.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nevertheless there was a sense of openness, a feel of a gentle breeze moving lightly about, that kept the darkness from being oppressive. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Up close the city constitutes an oppressive series of staircases, but from a distance it inspires fantasies of wealth and power so profound that even our communists are temporarily rendered speechless. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The once respected and honored Taliban became what they were fighting against, the oppressive warlords and dictators that had preceded them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He could feel the pressure pounding in his ears as the darkness grew thicker and more oppressive. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z As if to make things still more oppressive, M. Yoshoto’s handwriting was just barely legible. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly the chapel felt oppressive - thousands of hollow eye sockets staring at Nico. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Jordan and Tom and I got into the front seat of Gatsby's car, Tom pushed the unfamiliar gears tentatively and we shot off into the oppressive heat leaving them out of sight behind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z In the old country, they had toiled as tenant farmers under the oppressive control of their English landlords. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Outside, you don’t hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The going never gets exceedingly difficult, but the fifteen-foot-high tangle of alder pressing in from both sides is gloomy, claustrophobic, oppressive. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t the rest of the world know about the suffering and deaths caused by apartheid? Aren’t white South Africans aware of the oppressive nature of the regime they always vote for?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge of it was oppressive; her heart felt like iron. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z In 1931, Japan tested the waters, invading the Chinese province of Manchuria and setting up a fiercely oppressive puppet state. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z How was I supposed to look cute and athletic with such oppressive pieces of sporting equipment strapped to my body? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was oppressive, as oppressive as Aunt Elizabeth telling him to “be strong,” her voice warbly over the phone, as if there were something she knew that he did not. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Not for the first time, Leo was struck by how similar Greece was to his home state of Texas - the low hills, the scrubby trees, the drone of cicadas and the oppressive summer heat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It is highly unusual in Iceland to bury someone in the dark, and thick clouds made the sky even more oppressive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But today, with the sun bearing down, making the whole landscape shimmer with heat, it was in-human and oppressive. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The heat was oppressive and her fair-skinned face red from the sun. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But they are not completely unequipped—they also have the history of determined, improvisational survival, a legacy of generations who fought through even more oppressive circumstances. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The sky was always oppressive and gray, and the smoke of thousands of chimneys hung low and menacing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z These unprovable suspicions, Jackson’s detainment in the laundry, Pierrot’s wretched delivery and the morning’s colossal heat were oppressive to Briony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z By 1983, the surge in superpower hostility had made life in the KGB's London residency even more oppressive than usual. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The early June dusk was soft and green, not yet with the oppressive heat of summer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Every moth, every wingbeat carried the oppressive burden of the ghost army, and of vengeance, and the weight of another Carnage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But it was a pretty sad story, about one family’s struggle against the oppressive Japanese regime. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It was early in the day, but the humidity was already oppressive. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But the foul air was thick and oppressive, clinging to us as if anything new, clean, and fresh had to be contaminated by this noxious atmosphere or it wouldn’t survive. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Now all the weight had left him, the monumental and oppressive fatigue. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He put the bath off for later, not because of the cold and the dampness, but because of the oppressive October mist. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Abruptly, the engine stopped, and an oppressive calm replaced the previous cacophony. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of those mysterious, oppressive days we sometimes had at Hampden, where the mountains that lowered at the horizon were swallowed up in fog and the world seemed light and empty, dangerous somehow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Franklin’s ancestors may have emigrated from Europe to escape oppressive rules, but colonial societies were still vastly more coercive and class- ridden than indigenous villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Would they see the immense melancholy that hung over the quarter, so oppressive that men had to dull their sensibilities in noise or wine or sex or gluttony in order to escape it? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As the sun sets and the oppressive heat breaks, he hears crickets and frogs begin their music and join the migrant chorus. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Nations such as Russia, Poland, and Finland also experienced disastrous economic times and suffered from oppressive governments, leading many to risk the long, treacherous ocean voyage to America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Mom thought I should be writing exposes about oppressive landlords, social injustice, and the class struggle on the Lower East Side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Among its provisions are establishing a forty-hour work week and a national minimum wage as well as prohibiting oppressive child labor and most employment of minors. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The oppressive heat and constant rhythm of the wagon wheels finally made Polly sleepy, and she dozed uncomfortably for a couple of hours. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Secretary of State William H. Seward, whose oppressive policies toward the South have long made him a target of Confederate anger, is on Booth’s list as well. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “But it was a silent crowd. There was something oppressive in those thousands of watchers without a sound, either of welcome or hatred. I think we would have welcomed a yell of defiance.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Gloomy and oppressive though the house was, it had been their one safe refuge: even, now that Kreacher was so much happier and friendlier, a kind of home. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Stranded at home in yet another day of oppressive heat, many took to the open air, sitting out on porches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I feel Marcus’s eyes on me like an oppressive weight threatening to crush me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Its little painted Chinese figures gathered formally in a garden around a table, with ornate plants and implausible birds, seemed fussy and oppressive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It literally means “apartness” and it represented the codification in one oppressive system of all the laws and regulations that had kept Africans in an inferior position to whites for centuries. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadow wondered if it was the weather: oppressive, still and cold. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z When the knot in his throat became so oppressive that it was difficult for him to breathe, Aureliano Segundo visited Pilar Ternera to see if she knew of some herb that would give him relief. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Eleanor’s little car stumbled and bounced, reluctant to go farther into these unattractive hills, where the day seemed quickly drawing to an end under the thick, oppressive trees on either side. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Eleanor, watching, thought wryly that it might sometimes be oppressive to be for long around one so immediately in tune, so perceptive, as Theodora. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The sight brings on an oppressive sadness that no car about to hit you or water about to drown you can match. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, they enter a separate society, a world hidden from public view, governed by a set of oppressive and discriminatory rules and laws that do not apply to everyone else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Some factors affecting the quality of the air, such as the hot, humid, oppressive summer weather, were out of their control. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He felt relieved to be out in the air, away from all the oppressive artworks. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The electric lights in the ceiling are far apart, and the silence in the huge space is oppressive. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The foxes hastened to do as they were told, glad to be out of the oppressive atmosphere of the sickroom. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Never-theless there was a sense of openness, a feel of a gentle breeze moving lightly about, that kept the darkness from being oppressive. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose these things are as real, and as oppressive, to the people who grew up there as this place is to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In Elberon the night before, under nearly a full moon, hundreds of railroad workers had toiled in the oppressive heat. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z How much longer will this increasingly oppressive, unbearable weight press down on us? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The book examines how individuals and institutions—victims, perpetrators, and bystanders—know about yet deny the occurrence of oppressive acts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Ever since Jean de Satigny had begun to visit them, the boredom of the countryside, where after five o’clock in the afternoon there was nothing left to do, had become less oppressive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This may have been made easier for me because I was something of a social outcast, taking on the overwhelmingly Mormon and sometimes oppressive and conformist atmosphere of my school and town. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved that anxiety, that terrible and oppressive anxiety which he experienced during the game of dice, during the suspense of high stakes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the heat sinks heavily into our shell-holes like a jellyfish, moist and oppressive and on one of these late summer days, while bringing food, Kat falls. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides “suspect” religions, the immigrants brought with them a hunger for improved living standards, an animus against oppressive authority, and a history of collective action, particularly in labor unions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The cool morning breeze and clouds thankfully shielded us from the otherwise oppressive heat. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Grace couldn’t help but giggle, oddly relieved that Maya wasn’t in some awful, oppressive home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The attention was welcome at first but then quickly became oppressive as I perked up. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The red star on the album’s cover was the symbol of the Solar Federation, the oppressive interstellar society in the story. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z An oppressive system cannot be reformed, I said, it must be entirely cast aside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ranofer forced the scroll and his own anger to the back of his mind; it only made him hotter on an already oppressive day. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Engines howling, wheels spinning, they proceeded through the forest at the pace of a walk, in continual rain and oppressive heat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A thick, oppressive layer of dust blankets everything. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The air was oppressive; it seemed as if there was some sulphurous fume, which at times made me dizzy. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Seconds later, the wagon door swings open, and the forbidding walls of Blackcliff are before me, their oppressive weight driving the hallucination from my mind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They would squint into the dense, oppressive sunlight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They felt a little ridiculous in the oppressive summer heat, with a bouquet of wilting flowers in their hands and not a single tear for the solitary body they were laying to rest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early years of Jim Crow, conservative white elites competed with each other by passing ever more stringent and oppressive Jim Crow legislation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “They came here,” she explained, “to relax from the oppressive atmosphere of the rest of the house.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Jim Crow, as oppressive as it was, offered a measure of security for blacks who were willing to play by its rules. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Colonial societies could not become too oppressive, because their members—surrounded by examples of free life—always had the option to vote with their feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The dyeing yard, affected by the fire, was already sultry and almost oppressive. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dark skin was for my mother the most important symbol of a life of oppressive labor and poverty. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of their fear, they reacted to an oppressive oddity, or what they called evil days, with an acceptance that bordered on welcome. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She remembered the cave in Resurrection Bay where she’d worked to raise Alcyoneus—the oppressive sense of malice and the constant boom, boom, boom, like Gaea’s heartbeat. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Harry found the place and the silence oppressive, unnerving. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z By so doing they escaped oppressive public isolation and were able to unite with many others like themselves. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath me, the house was silent, shimmering and oppressive. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Everything is shiny to an oppressive degree; I can practically see my reflection in the marble floor. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The silence grew oppressive and Piggy held his breath. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Most of those gathered at the meeting had been slaves at one time and knew how oppressive some of the whites around them could be. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The sky rumbled, and there was an oppressive weight to the air, a sullen, foreboding pressure, as if it were waiting for something. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was only his imagination, but the air of the land around Spiral Castle had seemed, to Taran, heavy and oppressive. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Pryor’s improvisations heighten the movie’s dialectic of oppressive reality and imaginary escape. In Paul Schrader’s ‘Blue Collar,’ the Factory Floor Is Brutal 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z On the way, they encounter Fineboy, a clever young man obsessed with honing his radio voice; a recently orphaned young woman named Isoken; and Oma, who is running from her abusive husband and oppressive life. Going AWOL in Africa’s Largest City 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z It's a dark reading in every sense: Miller reproduces the oppressive gloom of gas-lit drawing rooms with a literalness that risks eye-strain. Rutherford and Son – review 2013-02-14T18:02:44Z In making the film, Ebrahimi drew on these experiences of being humiliated by an oppressive government. An Iranian Exile Channels Her Trauma Into Film 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z In her books Illness As Metaphor and Aids And Its Metaphors, Susan Sontag argued against the oppressive moralising of disease, which was increasingly portrayed as an individual problem. Why are the poor blamed and shamed for their deaths? 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z Here, clichés like the oppressive house, controlling employer and vulnerable heroine prove far more complex than they appear, having been skillfully reimagined for this anguished, haunted story. A Sundance With Brains and Guts, Disemboweled and Otherwise 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The worst-ranked were notoriously oppressive regimes such as North Korea, Eritrea, Turkmenistan, Syria and China. Trump’s attacks on media blamed for decline in U.S. standing in press-freedom survey 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The design here is never static; there isn’t the oppressive sense of control found in some classical architecture, with its rigid perpendicular lines. Architecture Review: Chinese Gem That Elevates Its Setting 2011-07-05T21:43:47Z The organizers and participants acknowledge that engagement with an oppressive government is a thorny issue. Group of American Cultural Figures to Visit China 2011-10-27T00:20:49Z When Julián himself catches Yanelly’s eye, and she his, tensions escalate between Julián and Manaury, and the men are relocated to the even more oppressive La Victoria. Review: ‘Woodpeckers,’ a Tale of Love and Agonizing Penal Confinement 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Both led their countries to freedom from oppressive white minority rule and both have names beginning with ‘M’ but there the similarities end. 4 African leaders who learned nothing from Nelson Mandela 2013-12-10T13:30:00Z In the room with Lavinia and Orin, we experience at close range an oppressive onslaught of sordid secrets, and the fusty heaviness of the play takes over. Review: ‘Mourning Becomes Electra,’ Up Close and Powerful 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z And ultimately, even when they understand it, the story simply proves too oppressive for some viewers. Can't bear it 2010-04-08T11:37:00Z We get it - the regime was and is oppressive. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Romeo’s world is joyful, ebullient, a land of happy purples and greens, while Juliet’s is largely red and black — harsh, oppressive, dangerous. Review: Romeo and Juliet Leap to 1960s Hong Kong 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z However important the themes, watching one character watch others feels punishingly oppressive. ‘Tape’ Review: That’s (Not) Entertainment 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Q: The "Hunger Games" books get progressively darker and more violent as Katniss' revolution rises against President Snow's oppressive regime. "Hunger Games" success "mind-blowing" for Hutcherson 2012-08-17T18:11:04Z It soon becomes clear that the prologue’s double murder is merely a device to present Montefiore’s panoramic descriptions of the manners, mechanics and passions of an oppressive society. ‘One Night in Winter,’ by Simon Sebag Montefiore Everyone's happy: for Soft City inhabitants, the mind is as much a prison as the routine lifestyle and oppressive architecture. Artist of the week 202: Hariton Pushwagner 2012-08-09T14:27:00Z Meanwhile, the theme of the Inquisition will be stripped of any allusions to the Roman Catholic Church and rather be depicted as a secret, oppressive power. An Opera That Travels Through Time 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In a Jan. 9 webinar kicking off a week of activity in advance of Religious Freedom Day, Clarkson brought to life the oppressive political context Jefferson was responding to. Religious freedom: It’s a core American principle, and it doesn’t mean what right-wingers want it to mean 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z It is the same mood as that which characterized Napoleon III’s oppressive Second Empire. T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z It's interesting to compare the lonely, oppressive atmosphere created here with the hysterical, wild, excited reaction to a suicide in the New York-set Save the Life of my Child. Old music: Simon & Garfunkel – A Most Peculiar Man 2012-12-20T09:00:00Z Dimon is surely right to make a connection between the oppressive world of Lorca's play and the dour parody of Stella Gibbons's novel Cold Comfort Farm, both of which appeared in 1933. A Blood Wedding in Wensleydale 2010-10-05T20:29:00Z It stains the hands, the rags, the sink and the conscience, and that’s before the oppressive weight of a lifeless body comes into play. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 2: Crime Isn’t for Amateurs 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z "His paintings evoke haunting, even oppressive notions of rootlessness and detachment connected with the horrors and atrocities of the 20th century or with the diaspora," said Udo Kittelman, director of the New National Gallery. Israeli artist depicts pain of rootless Jews in Berlin exhibition 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The glacier-paced interactions of the actors here may initially madden you; by the end, the sense of the oppressive weight that controls their motions breaks your heart. Review: ‘Signature Plays’ Triple Bill Reveals Truth in the Mirror’s Lies 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z For all its noble intentions, “The Scottsboro Boys” ends up feeling a bit oppressive. Review | Signature Theatre can’t save ‘Scottsboro Boys’ from its own self-righteousness 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Was this scent conceived as a response to an oppressive year? Michelle Pfeiffer Talks Scents 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The style of the film changes, too — from Sjostrom’s bright expansiveness to something cramped, dark and oppressive. Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Summer With Monika’ 2012-05-27T03:41:56Z Visually and conceptually oppressive, the film is a seamless match of form and content. | 'Metropia': Dystopia Animated 2010-05-11T22:29:00Z The story, set entirely within a hospital, does not shy away from the oppressive treatment regime. Going viral: why Hollywood is plagued by terminally ill teens 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The remarkable "This Is Not a Film," an almost unclassifiable act of subtle defiance against an oppressive authority, is, in fact, very much a film. 'This Is Not a Film': a look at life in Iran, while under house arrest 2012-04-12T20:08:06Z These dreamscapes operate as a kind of parallel universe, taking us back to the oppressive atmosphere of 19th-century slavery, with its humiliations and brutality. The Gospel According to Cane by Courttia Newland – review 2013-03-01T17:00:01Z But Conner, politically minded from the start, set his sights on San Francisco, where he rightly decided that the art world’s machinations would be less oppressive. Review: Bruce Conner’s Darkness That Defies Authority 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z There is a common misconception in the West that this is an oppressive, patriarchal practice forced upon Muslim women. One year on, Muslim women reflect on wearing the niqab in a mask-wearing world 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z While the feudal social order was authoritarian and often harshly oppressive, it also allowed for a constant process of negotiating the liberties and immunities of different classes. Don't Root for the Game of Thrones White Walkers Just Yet 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z "You're not leaving the house dressed like that" is a cliché of oppressive child-rearing, just as changing clothes after leaving the house is cliché of teenage rebellion. Motherlode Blog: Should Parents Impose a Dress Code? 2012-09-09T13:01:00Z “When creators aimed for more trippy and existential stuff in the 1970s, like Adam Warlock’s nemesis The Magus, who ran an oppressive religious cult,” says Narcisse, “any commentary was more elliptical.” Does God exist in the Marvel Universe? 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z “But it is also the platform that allowed free speech for activists living in oppressive regimes during the Arab Spring, for example, or the revelations of whistle-blowers like Edward Snowden.” Watch an Art Work About the Dark Web, on the Dark Web 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z A failed air-conditioning system guaranteed that the heat was all too, well, oppressive. Overcoming Through Song in a Summer of Discontent 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z It is spectral in its intensity, but not oppressive. New band of the day ? No 778: Pearly Gate Music 2010-05-04T14:28:00Z Walk the corridors of this museum, and the work of Rubens is so overwhelming in its rhetorical impact that for all of its many delights it can also feel oppressive. Review | A Rubens exhibition asks: Are first thoughts best? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Scott Pask’s single, multipurpose set has a look of oppressive solidity, with its heavy doors and sturdy central staircase. Review: 3 Generations Aching to Connect ‘On the Shore of the Wide World’ 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Well, it took me right out of my great Sorkin “om” and back into the cold, oppressive city and a long, lonely night of my own. This is the laziest rhyme in all of songwriting history — and great artists use it all the time 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z His oppressive force lifted, Ana is now free to develop her own independent approach to the American dream. Coming of Age as an Immigrant Child Bride 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z In a sense, Orlando is also an antihero in the drama of Woolf’s oppressive heteronormative society — a subversion, a counterpoint to convention, a sentinel of the resistance. Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “Indignation” captures with an uncanny realism a moment of innocence and caution in a post-World War II era, when an oppressive, puritanical conformism dominated white America. Review: ‘Indignation’ Offers a Precisely Rendered, and Repressive, 1950s America 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z He finds notions such as cultural appropriation, he said, “oppressive” — “Flaubert created a Madame Bovary even though he wasn’t a woman” — and prefers to think of literature as “freedom.” He Is Senegalese and French, With Nothing to Reconcile 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Leah leaves an oppressive marriage and life of underachievement to retrieve the car — and try to understand the meaning of this mysterious gift. More fine fall fiction 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z He was sent to an oppressive boarding school. To Live Outside the Law by Leaf Fielding ? review 2011-07-07T13:13:00Z It’s like every one of their comedies is a fish out of water story where the family unit is up against the oppressive normalcy of the rest of society. Speechless: Minnie Driver's fast-paced sitcom has a lot to say 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Moverman, shooting with a loose, jittery camera often in extreme close-up, captures the sun-baked, oppressive feeling of the kind of summer night when you feel a little feverish, a little lost. 'Rampart': Cop drama is dark, feverish and compelling 2012-03-01T20:47:07Z The apartment is rather claustrophobic, but there is a stifling, oppressive atmosphere throughout the film, which is very effective. In "Farewell Amor," separated immigrants reunite 17 years later for an imperfect American dream 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence,” he said. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z During the Cold War, many Americans linked Islam to the Middle East and Africa, a region perceived as backward, brutal, and politically oppressive. “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z Even the most innocuous of places, like the police station offices, feel threatening and oppressive. TV review: The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World; Wallander 2012-08-12T21:00:01Z Born into the oppressive Jim Crow world of Columbus, Ga., in 1895, Bullard as a boy heard that the black man was treated more fairly in France, and developed a determination to move there. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The production, though rich with ideas and theatrically daring, is finally rather clinical and oppressive. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z Nothing there goes as planned, and the narrator quickly begins to see the study center as oppressive. Afraid of a Lurking Evil, a Writer Goes Down the Rabbit Hole 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z She can barely see, struggles for breath, and has so oppressive a hangover that she can't remember who is in her bed. Let the Right One In; The Amen Corner; Sweet Bird of Youth – review 2013-06-15T23:05:22Z The length of the movie can feel oppressive — the chase is grinding, its resolution repeatedly deferred — and Kent’s shooting style is deliberately claustrophobic. ‘The Nightingale’ Review: A Song of Violence and Vengeance 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Yet it’s undeniable that there is something curiously oppressive about the current bounty, something paralyzing about our ease of access to it. Review: In ‘Every Song Ever,’ Ben Ratliff Helps the Listener Discern 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z Even then, I tended to end up in cul-de-sacs of oppressive, overpriced crystal chandeliers, marble mantel pieces, gilt-framed mirrors and Italian floor lamps in the shape of palm trees. At a Paris Flea Market, Tips for Treasure Hunters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z "When we were in the field, the heat was so oppressive the only breeze would be from the bugs flying around," he said. Pa. art exhibit shows war through soldiers' eyes 2010-09-19T19:01:00Z Bul was born in 1964 in a remote South Korean village where her dissident parents were in hiding from the oppressive government. Artist of the week 97: Lee Bul 2010-07-21T15:15:00Z The spontaneity of their movements, and the freedom of their interaction, made the "official" exhibit seem dour, even oppressive by comparison. Naked News: We're Still Prudes! Even at the Museum 2010-04-26T20:42:00Z But the civil rights movement produced a generation of young Black people eager to assert their freedom from oppressive aesthetics. Willie Lee Morrow, Barber Who Popularized the Afro Pick, Dies at 82 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Norms, doctrines and mass movements were likely to be oppressive, whereas margins and deviations were potentially subversive. Derrida: A Biography by Benoît Peeters - review 2012-11-14T08:00:01Z But when his best friend Hector is arrested, Standish decides to take action against the oppressive power of the "monstrous Motherland" - an alternate version of 1950s England - where he lives. Carnegie medal winner Sally Gardner attacks Gove 2013-06-19T11:49:00Z The show, written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, whose parents were born in Puerto Rico, uses Hispanic and black actors to portray the founding fathers and, pointedly, a white actor to portray the oppressive King George III. After #OscarsSoWhite, Broadway Seeks a #TonysSoDiverse 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Where had he been sleeping in the oppressive heat? Rapture in the Zoom 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Sometimes the picture is oppressive; often, it’s pretty boring. Woody Allen Sidesteps a Rape Joke in Cannes 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Yet throughout “American Hookup,” I was dogged by a low-level hum of uncertainty, never quite sure how oppressive the insipid parties are, or how widespread the writhing bacchanals. Review: ‘American Hookup’ Gives College Sex Culture a Failing Grade 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z The dark woodwork is suggestive of a gothic church, a curiously oppressive environment for most people, but a warm bath for a man known as “the bishop of Broadway,” who actually dressed in pseudoclerical garb. A Temple of Drama, Burnished 2010-08-28T02:45:00Z The piece marks a moment in which pop art is radicalized in Argentina — all in the months before the first of two oppressive military regimes takes over the country. Object Lesson: The León Ferrari bomber crucifixion that Pope Francis called 'blasphemy' 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Through the architecture of the drama, connections are forged between oppressive messages and inhibited souls. Review: Moving power of love in 'Stop Kiss' confronts brutality But while Abby’s life is opening before us, we’re also granted a few lessons about how oppressive heteronormative mainstream culture can be to people who don’t easily fit into a box. "The L Word: Generation Q" wants us back, but we'd rather hang with "Work in Progress" 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Vinothraj palpably summons the violence and oppressive nature of their relationship — and their bleakly impoverished milieu — with intensity and tremendous visual flair. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z "It is oppressive because it asks people to repress their humanity in the name of efficiency." "Still taboo": Eating disorders are a silent epidemic in professional kitchens 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Speaking hours before the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, Asghar Farhadi said the movement against the US president empowered people to “say no to oppressive political powers everywhere”. Solidarity key to resisting Trump, says Oscar-nominated Iranian director 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z He bursts into expletives over fluffed lines, curses pesky flies and gripes about the oppressive heat. | 'Winnebago Man': YouTube to Big Screen: RV Pitchman With Short Fuse 2010-07-08T23:56:00Z “Spa Night” is a looming family tragedy of immigrants desperately trying to maintain a foothold in an oppressive, upwardly mobile and conformist subculture. Review: Wrestling With Gay Identity and Parental Wishes in ‘Spa Night’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z For even longer than that, the old convention center, demolished in 2004, occupied this space with oppressive stolidity, and closed off parts of 10th and I streets NW. Architecture Review: All that’s missing from shiny, sleek CityCenterDC is CityHeartDC The narrator’s calm recitation quickly progresses from interesting to irritating to oppressive. | 'The Sound of Insects': A Man?s Slow Suicidal Walk to Starvation in the Forest 2010-12-22T00:29:04Z There may be an acknowledgment of the harm that living in patriarchy causes people, but more often than not, there is a real pessimism in how these shows frame oppressive systems. Reveling in the darkness: “True Detective,” “Game of Thrones” and the missing critique in TV’s cult of gritty realism 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z But so was the tidy historic downtown, the toasty but not yet oppressive Southern sun and the pervasive scent of honeysuckle, which apparently actually happens in Georgia towns. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The beef was the upstart Baldwin’s critique of Wright’s 1940 novel, “Native Son,” a groundbreaking book that’s still troubling in its representation of Bigger Thomas’s violent reaction to an oppressive society. Review | Jay-Z and Kanye set the tone in premiere of ‘Les Deux Noirs’ at Mosaic Theater 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z The most well-known demonstration against the pageant is the 1968 liberation picket, in which hundreds of women protested the pageant’s oppressive ideal of femininity and, so the media myth goes, burned their bras. Miss America 1968: When civil rights and feminist activists converged on Atlantic City 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Or that of all the oppressive dictators in the world and throughout history, the first movie that assassinates a living dictator happens to the North Korean one? ‘The Interview,’ With James Franco and Seth Rogen, Is Back On 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z There is also pleasing camerawork: painterly images of strained light and oppressive gloom. Arts & Leisure Preview: ?Green Zone,? ?The Ghost Writer? and Conspiracy Comforts 2010-03-31T20:54:00Z “The Bestiary” focuses on oppressive totalitarian governments in Spain and Latin America during the 1970s; “Diaspora: Reconstructing Identities” features artists who fled during or after the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War, seeking refuge across the Atlantic. In the galleries: Looking back on a century of Iberian and Latin American works 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Yet for a growing faction in the domain of culture, to complain about the pathetically low standard of the art on view is irrelevant at best, oppressive at worse. The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever. 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It was easier to call the revelations unstartling, dull even, if one lived in western Europe, rather than in Belarus, Tunisia, or in any other oppressive regime. WikiLeaks: Tunisia knew its rulers were debauched. But leaks still had impact 2011-02-02T19:59:00Z In other words, if you’re a fan of Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh, Tarantino movies can simultaneously make you feel stupid while still conveying the sense of an anarchic opposition to oppressive authority. Quentin Tarantino is Fox News’ piñata: The real reason why Bill O’Reilly and the police hate him 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Bilal, 48, was born in Iraq, where he says he couldn’t study art because of Hussein’s oppressive regime. 2015 Armory Show fair puts focus on Middle Eastern artists 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z This is not a polemic about oppressive men and put-upon women, but a subtle drama in which neither party is guilty. A Doll's House ? review 2010-10-26T20:29:00Z Its dance vocabulary, cramped and oppressive to begin with, proves inadequate. Ballet Hispanico’s Take on ‘Carmen’ in ‘Carmen.maquia’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z In other words, educated women and girls are somehow oppressive. How white supremacist hatred drives acts of violence against powerful women 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z The charter school’s focus on discipline and test scores reinforces an oppressive ruling class to which the narrator, grudgingly, belongs. Review | In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Want,’ a woman collapses under the obligations of modern life 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z “So when we talk about American heroes, people that fought against an oppressive force, I think that it’s a no-brainer that Nat Turner exists in that conversation.” How three powerful movies this year took on Virginia’s troubled racial history 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It was of a piece with the series, yet different, more bitter, oppressive and uncomfortable. Trailer trash: Fred Wiseman, George Michael and Barbet Schroeder 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon has already won the Costa children's book award with its darkly uplifting tale of a brave 15-year-old's stand against the oppressive world of Zone Seven. Longlist released for 2013 Guardian children's fiction prize 2013-06-03T08:57:35Z Obviously because it is Balzac's home, but also because the place is just right, with small, rapidly oppressive rooms, narrow staircases and gloomy wood-panelled passages. Louise Bourgeois: Moi, Eug?nie Grandet - review 2011-01-04T14:00:55Z This time Cohen portrays an oppressive leader of a fictional north African country. 'Avengers' outguns 'Battleship' at box offices 2012-05-20T18:13:13Z The wishes with which Laura lades him are apparent – aware of oppressive secrets at her unhappy society's highest echelons, she needs her father's support, but he is badly injured and traumatised, and cannot help her. Why golems are precious 2010-08-27T08:56:00Z Was it oppressive to women or liberating?” says Ms. Steele. F.I.T. Museum Director Brings Critical Eye to Clothing 2012-02-10T11:08:01Z Upon its arrival, though, the film's oppressive bleakness, grisly violence and elliptical script translated to poor reviews and a meager box-office gross. Brad Pitt gets gritty again in 'Fury': 5 lessons from his recent work 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z So when you're talking about real solutions that threaten the power of those who are oppressors, those who are oppressive, they will only allow what does not threaten that power. "There is no revolution without art": Kendrick Sampson on activism & his new film "Miss Juneteenth" 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Irving is a naturally warm stage presence, but this oppressive smothering is so irksomely overstated that you want to tune Maggie out after just a few minutes in her presence. | 'We Live Here: ?We Live Here? by Zoe Kazan at City Center - Review 2011-10-13T02:01:11Z It takes a lot of heart to go against some of these systems that are seen as oppressive, and you do that a lot. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Exiles mournfully fleeing an oppressive Russia evoke “Fiddler on the Roof.” Perspective | If you’ve seen one princess fairy tale, you know what to expect with ‘Anastasia’ 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Some current version of this is the #FreeBritney movement surrounding Britney Spears' demand to be released from an oppressive, exploitative conservatorship that denies Spears autonomy over her career, earnings, even her own body. It was Conan O'Brien's choice to leave late night this time – and we've never identified more 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z It doesn’t have to be great, just good enough to keep us from striking out on our own or banding together to overthrow a rotten and oppressive system. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z For the viewer, this isn’t as oppressive as it sounds. ‘Han Gong-ju,’ a Drama About Sexual Violence in South Korea 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Tempering the film's oppressive emotions, the cinematographer Zoë White's exquisite compositions charge leaden rain clouds and rustling branches with eerie life, and dusty indoor corners with shadowy secrets. 'The Afterlight': loss and alienation in farm country 2011-09-01T19:17:08Z The New Museum’s galleries are generally viewed as horribly proportioned and oppressive in their lack of windows. Finding an Artful Way to Expand the Whitney 2010-04-12T22:26:00Z With his sly smile and his sparkly eyes, he delivers the zingers with an easy grace, giving a nice silky consistency to shtick that, in more aggressive hands, might grow oppressive. Review: ‘An Act of God,’ With Jim Parsons as an Almighty Comedian 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Mr. Harper’s bright geniality at least spreads a little sunshine into the oppressive atmosphere. Theater Review: ‘A Family for All Occasions,’ at Bank Street Theater 2013-05-13T02:00:10Z Miro found that his life in Paris allowed him to understand his Catalan roots, that formative light that had seemed so oppressive, with a new and startling clarity. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z It is akin to Hamlet's Elsinore – oppressive, claustrophobic, haunted by shadows and suspicions. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook – review 2013-05-31T09:00:02Z Preparatory drawings from 2019 reveal many more creatures — oppressive characters surrounding a tiny protagonist. Chanel Miller’s Secret Source of Strength 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Of course, there's no question that the regime in Iran is also oppressive toward women. As Iranians rise up, it's time we also challenged the stereotype of the misogynist Iranian man 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Gay liberation narrative sees the family … as oppressive. Book reviews roundup: Family Secrets, A Hologram for the King and China's Silent Army 2013-02-08T18:50:01Z R. Kelly believed he could fly, but it will be justice to see his oppressive wings clipped.” As R. Kelly’s Trial Begins, Here’s a Timeline of the Allegations 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z “I’d tap them on the shoulder and say, ‘I know this is oppressive,’ ”she said. When Fashion Meets Art 2014-03-13T00:02:24Z Too much distance and things get cold and lonely, and too much closeness and things dissolve and get oppressive. Think more about sex! 2012-12-22T23:00:00Z She hands her characters a seemingly insurmountable problem or dire situation and tests them with oppressive social mores, menacing evil, buried secrets or catastrophic events — frequently, all of the above. ‘The Stars Are Fire,’ by Anita Shreve, ignites history 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z But the anxiety over her oppressive surroundings at home never left. The empty promises of Marie Kondo and the craze for minimalism 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z I started making lasagna, mac and cheese, baked ziti, and other variations on the theme about a year ago, during an uncertain fall that chilled into an oppressive winter. When everything’s wrong, only baked pasta feels right 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Those shivers owed much to the cinematographer Will Gibson, who died in 2007 and whose skills turned the outback into a hellish landscape of oppressive loneliness. ‘Wolf Creek 2’ Features an Even Scarier Australian Outback 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z For the Iranian college students in "Desert Dancer," dance is an act of defiance against an oppressive regime. Review: A static 'Desert Dancer' lands flat footed 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z If that sounds oppressive — well, yes, working so much that you can’t even figure out when or if you ever stop working can get old. Freelancers are totally screwed: What today’s cultural treadmill means for writers 2014-02-04T17:44:00Z The title character, a high priestess of a druid clan living in Gaul under oppressive Roman occupation, is the unquestioned leader of her community. Compelling Singers Lift a Muddled ‘Norma’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z At one point in the discussion, Mr. Peterson, who had been relatively quiet, becomes heated on the topic of women who find marriage oppressive. Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The law and its punishments were "degrading, oppressive and inhuman", the three judges added. Malaysian court scraps cross-dressing ban in landmark decision 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z Inspired by a true story, Ms. Ben Hania leans hard and heavy on official corruption, oppressive morality codes and a Tunisian bureaucracy dominated by male power. Review: Seeking Justice After a Rape in ‘Beauty and the Dogs’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The heat was oppressive when he arrived at his tent in the desert. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers – digested read 2013-02-10T13:00:01Z Xponential accuses Ms. Kaiser of instigating a “campaign of disruption” and calls her actions “willful, wanton, malicious and oppressive.” So You Think You Can Run a Dance Cardio Business 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z But, it was also about sexism she was dealing with at home and on her team; racism was not the only oppressive force in her life. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z There's two ways that a kid can rebel against an oppressive, rich family, like the one in the show. "There's lots of ways to be insecure": Jemima Kirke reflects on her "Girls" and "City on Fire" roles 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z As she faces a personal crisis, the book also pitches Lyra into conflict with an oppressive religious hierarchy, the Magisterium, which has an intense interest in those mysterious Central Asian roses. Philip Pullman’s latest book is adventure for an anxious age 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z “My personal values are not oppressive or secretive. Those of us in leadership positions, we understand the volume of work. . . . We try to honor people’s personalities and how they are connected to people we serve.” D.C. Mayor Bowser names new chairman of arts commission, which is facing accusations of cronyism and racism 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z "The oppressive greenness of the forests becomes a really strong character," said Barrett. 11 feature films with Northwest ties at SIFF 2011-05-13T21:35:23Z O'Farrell recreates the sweltering, oppressive atmosphere and tosses into it the abrupt disappearance of an expat Irish paterfamilias that throws his wife and three adult children – their relationships already strained – back into one another's orbit. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z Making Scrimshaw a Sea Companion Sailors on 19th-century whale ships faced oppressive boredom, interrupted by occasional life-threatening storms and hunting expeditions. Antiques: Scrimshaw in New Book From New Bedford Whaling Museum 2013-01-10T21:54:56Z Kazakh society remains deeply conservative and, for some minority groups, oppressive. A D.J. Shows How to Let Go in Authoritarian Kazakhstan 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Set in an anonymous room where the men are being held, the play might pack a firmer punch in a more oppressive atmosphere. Review: ‘Incident at Vichy,’ an Arthur Miller Tale Set in World War II 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z The player will recognize the sound of a highway, but Rae will not; she will visualize it as an oppressive wall of blackness. In reality, Project Morpheus, Oculus Rift aren't the most exciting things at E3 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z “On the other hand, I pledge myself on all occasions, and whenever the question shall be presented for judicial decision, to brand it as tyrannical, oppressive, illegal, and unconstitutional.” Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z Merriam-Webster notes that the version of "-ism" without the hyphen actually is a word, specifically "a noun meaning 'a distinctive doctrine, cause, or theory' or 'an oppressive and especially discriminatory attitude or belief.'" The suffix '-ism' is named 2015 Word of the Year by Merriam-Webster 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z “This place has held oppressive structures fueled by coercion and ambition,” he says in the show. The Flea Theater, Experimenting Again, Walks a New Tightrope 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z When the last act began with the hushed chorus “Patria oppressa” — a grim reaction to Macbeth’s oppressive rule — it was hard not to think of the tragedies of the past two years. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z “Despite the unthinkable oppressive, impoverished and cruel conditions of his upbringing, he has been able to cultivate his creative genius to lawfully and ethically attain phenomenal worldwide success.” Violent Gang, or Rap Label? Prosecutors Say Young Thug’s YSL Is Both. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z The conservative actor sees the prevailing political winds in Hollywood as oppressive, rather than liberating. Where Was Lady Gaga at the Golden Globes Parties? 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z From mountainous muddy roads in Mexico to oppressive desert heat in Africa, filming their first two films was a true adventure. Fun, foul-mouthed reunion for Turner, Douglas on ‘Kominsky’ 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,” a court investigator wrote in a 2016 report. Britney Spears Quietly Pushed for Years to End Her Conservatorship 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z I tried to make it feel oppressive so that you feel like “I’m in the same location” every time. | Edgar Wright on the Autobiographical Inspirations Behind His Boozy Film 2013-08-22T21:05:22Z But it’s the cost of telling stories in an oppressive society. Why the Creator of ‘Dear White People’ Is Doubling Down on Identity Politics 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Mason is an engaging presence, but her meandering, getting-to-know-you exercises and chatty line of questioning were oppressive. Dance Review: Gesel Mason?s ?Women, Sex & Desire? - Review 2011-11-12T00:44:19Z Design was an outlet from what he described as an oppressive upbringing in the Assemblies of God Church, and he redid homes for friends as he got older. Bobby Berk’s New York 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Because they are all under the age of 10, these deadly weapons do not immediately get used for their coup against oppressive bureaucracy. Always brash, “South Park” gets brave: From kids with guns to the P.C. principal, this was their most compelling — and self-aware — season 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It was both oppressive and something like a release. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z People are weary of an oppressive military government. 'The Butterfly Mosque': Learning to live with love and Islam 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z Unless you plug a propofol drip into your arm every single night, how do you encounter those unwelcome grunts and gravelly snores as anything but oppressive? Marriage Requires Amnesia 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z Some of the praise the show has drawn is for sort of giving us a look at ordinary people in an oppressive world. Tony Gilroy Kept the Faith for ‘Andor.’ Its 8 Emmy Nods Are Affirmation. 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Enjoyable without being "oppressive, mean or totally mindless," the film continues McCarthy's blossoming as a leading lady. 'Spy': Melissa McCarthy's comedic mission accomplished, reviews say 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z It lurks on the stage like a silver cave leading to outer space; in other words, it’s random and slightly oppressive. Dance Review: Rosy Sunsets, Silver Caves and Three Divergent Works 2010-09-27T23:31:00Z Now he's seen more as a freedom fighter, a fighter for individual liberty against an oppressive regime. 'Vendetta' mask becomes symbol of Occupy protests 2011-11-04T11:15:12Z This was all very forthright, but it did not explain the air of oppressive secrecy that seems to permeate the glitter industry. What Is Glitter? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Many druid practitioners are reacting to a childhood religion they found inadequate or oppressive. Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z That it’s not oppressive is a testament to the deft adaptation and, especially, Ms. Moss’s layered performance. Review: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Creates a Chilling Man’s World 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Haart paints a dismal picture of her old ultra-Orthodox life, portraying it as oppressive, suggesting women are deprived of decent educations and are basically allowed just one purpose — to be a “babymaking machine.” Netflix Series Stirs Debate About the Lives of Ultra-Orthodox Women 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The book is filled with an oppressive air, giving a distinct impression of what parts of Belfast were like in the ’70s but also a surprising amount of humor. The New Booker Prize Winner Who May Never Write Again 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The Man in the High Castle speculates that, whichever side wins the war, the same oppressive forces end up in power. Why Hollywood doesn't get sci-fi 2010-10-15T11:49:00Z From there, the murk of keyboards, factory percussion and muffled voices grows only more oppressive. Album review: The Flaming Lips, 'The Terror' 2013-04-15T17:47:00Z Ms. WuDunn stays stateside to underscore the points made by her husband’s trips to some of the most oppressive countries in terms of basic women’s rights. Television Review: ‘Half the Sky,’ About Sex Trafficking, on PBS 2012-09-30T21:56:14Z For what is extraordinary is the love of country, and in particular the capital city of Minsk, that emerges from this collective portrait of the oppressive tactics of the Lukashenko regime. Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker – review 2012-06-17T17:04:01Z But I suspect this is true of many omnivorous readers, except perhaps the tiny minority with freakish total recall, a trait that might prove oppressive to live with anyway. In Praise of Omnivorous Readers 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z It's set in Seattle; the better to surround the players with moody gray mists and oppressive rain. A former fan cools on 'The Killing' 2011-06-18T09:31:05Z For instance Harriet Jacobs, a seamstress from North Carolina, sold her wares while on the run for years “from an oppressive master,” Katie Knowles writes in the encyclopedia’s entry on clothing and footwear. Antiques: The Everyday Lives of American Slaves 2011-01-06T22:27:39Z It offers an implicit challenge to oppressive regimes and repressive ideologies: we will embrace the freedom you despise, but we will do so without destroying ourselves; we will liberate ourselves and we will endure. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z Many female stars found him intrusive and oppressive: he might conceivably today find himself liable to a #MeToo complaint. Bergman: why are the great director's women all tragi-sexual goddesses? 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z The plenitude is delightful rather than oppressive, because of the freshness and because of Mr. Peck’s precocious command of structure. Dance Review: City Ballet Performs Justin Peck’s ‘Year of the Rabbit’ 2012-10-07T22:18:34Z Of course, it’s obvious that Ai also regards the officer as a pawn, one who, in serving an oppressive regime, has sacrificed his freedom to speak for himself. For His Father and His Son, Ai Weiwei Is Determined to Leave a Trace 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z The whole album is like this: dense, oppressive and utterly hypnotic, so detailed and minutely inflected that you become helplessly absorbed. Panda Bear: Tomboy ? review 2011-04-07T22:20:01Z They may yet turn out to be oppressive, patriarchal monsters, but the signs are pretty well submerged for now. A feminist's guide to raising boys 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z But once Spoke's Elmarie enters the scene barking orders and hurling threats, the oppressive reality of the scene clarifies itself. Athol Fugard builds on his distinguished corpus with 'The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek' 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z The director was more inclined to look at Turner’s story as an example of how such an obviously oppressive system becomes the norm. #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The microbeads take the contours of my features as I slip it on, which feels cosy rather than oppressive. Ostrichpillow Light - the sleep turban that has transformed my long-haul journeys 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Or — as Ms. McKinney insists — the victim of an oppressive religion, bravely rescued by the woman who loved him? Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z Mr. Assayas, 55, describes his own political sympathies as “libertarian left,” meaning that he is anti-Stalinist, anti-Maoist and very much aware of the way that revolutionary idealism often curdles into something sinister and oppressive. A Sweeping Tale of a Terrorist and His Time 2010-10-09T17:04:00Z I find all claims and commitments of my time outside of what I must do for work oppressive and unnecessary. The art of making (and not making) plans 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z But we are called, particularly those of us who are coming from the dominant culture, the oppressive culture for so long, to recognize how much harm our people have done in the past. Laurie Halse Anderson on writing "outside of your lane": "Be prepared to do years of extra work" 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z That oppressive set, however, now strikes me as a potentially significant contributor to the production’s success. A Decade Later, ‘Wicked’ Continues to Be Catnip for Tweens 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z A cauldron of fire blazing near the cocktail tent greeted them upon their arrival in the oppressive summer heat. Scene City: When the Party Approaches Its Boiling Point 2011-07-27T20:06:11Z Audiences can imagine that they themselves, born to oppressive privilege, would walk away from it long before rot had a chance to establish itself, in the mouth or anywhere else. Django Unchained: tackling Lincoln-era America on film 2013-01-25T06:59:01Z Then there are parts so redundant and oppressive as to appeal to only hard-core Hirst devotees. Art Review: Damien Hirst Spot Paintings at Gagosian in 8 Cities - Review 2012-01-12T20:22:52Z Refusing to accept that girls grow up is often treated not as the oppressive force that it is, but as something cute or comical. Arya Stark is an adult woman: "Game of Thrones" sex shock is rooted in hypocritical purity culture 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The Governor, played by David Morrissey, is increasingly oppressive, even deranged. Morrissey rules as The Governor in 'Walking Dead' 2013-02-07T15:30:17Z Call it mission overload, an oppressive stomp designed to obliterate the aftertaste of “New You.” Album review: My Bloody Valentine, 'm b v' 2013-02-04T16:43:00Z “What they want to call religious freedom is in fact the kind of oppressive religious tyranny that my ancestors left their homeland to escape,” Dorhauer added. This is the religious right’s radical new plan: The very real efforts to create an American theocracy in plain sight 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Skinny is an oppressive symbol in a culture that teaches women to hate themselves. “Stick person,” “Skinny bitch,” “Giraffe”: Stop bullying me for being thin 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z This is a staggeringly engrossing and effective movie, its settings both beautiful and oppressive, its incidents tense and eye-opening. Review: The Vietnam War, as Fought by the French, in ‘The 317th Platoon’ 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z That is the oratorio Handel wrote before “Israel in Egypt,” about a powerless people fleeing the subjugation of an oppressive state. Review: An Unexpectedly Relevant Oratorio at the Philharmonic 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Alif is a computer hacker in an oppressive Middle Eastern state, providing protective code for those who wish to hide their identities from the authorities. Science fiction and fantasy – reviews 2012-10-05T07:00:03Z So far from symbolising rational progress, the turbines are Stonehenge-like monuments of weirdness, incessantly turning and throbbing – an uncanny, oppressive heartbeat. Wake Wood ? review 2011-03-24T15:00:01Z The other side of the argument believes that all police officers are oppressive, terrible people who are dedicated to ruining the lives of Black people. Jon Bernthal embedded with Baltimore police to play city's dirtiest cop in HBO's "We Own This City" 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z What if a future Meghan-like figure, after adjusting to oppressive palace norms, were to welcome another woman who looked like her into the royal clan? Inspired by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, a new play ponders race, gender and inclusion 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z We see her revise it in real time according to the unhelpful and oppressive yet hilariously rendered advice of studio executives. Where is the love?: Seeking intimacy in Josephine Baker's films 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z The sinister, needlessly oppressive found-object sculptures in “2Traps” disappoint, demonstrating how big spaces and possibly big budgets can bring out the worst in bad boys. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z It’s a pretty common dynamic – something becomes so big that it becomes ubiquitous, and some people find it oppressive. Team Taylor or Team Kanye?: “These rivalries become metaphors that people use to work out their beliefs” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z “Swan Lake” is the most oppressive, with a fourth act that just drags. American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z David’s encounters, bracing as they are, made me wonder if there isn’t something oppressive about the insistence on majesty and wonder in modern science writing. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z When the counter-cultures of the 1960s objected to oppressive structures by looking inwards and seeking self-realisation, there was no shortage of good reasons to throw off the shackles of a rigid society. It’s time to stop looking for yourself 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Granted, the sanctions have probably crippled some of their overseas operations, but that said, they're still as oppressive as before. Maz Jobrani doesn't miss Trump jokes: He wasn't just bad for America, he was bad for comedy 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z We know she endured extreme discomfort – in addition to the food poisoning itself, the treatment involved injections with hypodermic needles – and she found the heat of the city in June oppressive and energy-sapping. Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' 2013-02-02T14:00:01Z "Black Widow," for instance, may contain the foundations of an extended reflection on nonconformist families, oppressive patriarchy, and coping with past trauma. How will "Evil Dead" and "Spidey" director Sam Raimi fare in the MCU? It'll swallow his soul 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z But before can she do that, she recognizes, she must dispel racial stereotypes that — as recent events have made clear — are still potent and oppressive. In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Weaks’s brooding Cory, on the other hand, is a complete portrait of boyhood trying to break free of oppressive parental restraint. Revealing the holes in August Wilson’s ‘Fences’ 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z “It is not difficult to imagine how oppressive living in such circumstances would feel for any ordinary person — much like being on display in a zoo,” he said. Tate Modern’s Viewing Platform Is a Nuisance, Top U.K. Court Says 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s a really swell place, the kind of cheery eatery that you never encounter in O’Hara’s morbid, oppressive fiction. Essay: Postcards From My Literary Staycation 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z I’d also suggest reading the work of writers such as James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., who spent their lives struggling against oppressive systems of power. What Should I Do About My Rage? 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z It’s also about friendship, memory, love, celebrity, our obsession with objects, oppressive dinner parties, comic books, and knife-throwing. Internet predators, vicious Amazon reviews, and how Mitt Romney’s smile inspired a novel 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The young man's attempts to qualify as an engineer are continually frustrated by a world of social hierarchies, oppressive government and rapacious corporations reaching into the lives of individuals. Five science fiction novels for people who hate SF 2013-06-28T09:44:47Z The girl is a little older in that film, but she’s still trapped with a mother who is completely crazy and oppressive and abusive. ArtsBeat: Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Dark Touch’ 2013-04-23T19:31:51Z They are, perhaps, a little more spare, and inclined towards a clean, cool sound rather than oppressive warmth. Review: Mary J. Blige Turns Dance Diva on The London Sessions 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z “It shows that Iranians are not just a bunch of fanatics, or just passive victims of an oppressive regime. It shows Iranian society in its complexity.” ‘Tehran’ Is the Latest Israeli Thriller, Emphasis on Thrills 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The person who emerges is often just as overbearing and oppressive as the father she grew up with, even after the transition. Daddy dearest 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Like that suspended decor, harmless interactions grow threatening and oppressive. Review | National Ballet of Canada dazzles with exhilarating energy at the Kennedy Center 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z And while this can feel oppressive, it should also feel familiar. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Educated, engaged, happy — and everyone still has an opinion 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z I didn't mind police when I was a little kid, but by the time I got to sixth grade, police officers had become the most oppressive people in our neighborhoods. It's time to cancel Batman — for good 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z You can get weighed down by it, the history can be oppressive. 'It's not about steel, it's the attitude' 2013-06-17T15:52:00Z From the start, Sophie’s lifelong love of travel is presented as part free-spiritedness and part coping mechanism, a way to deal with the “oppressive, superfluous” nature of time. A Skeptical Heroine, Unconvinced by Religion, Romance or Psychoanalysis 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z One of these has to do with 1959 as a preamble year to social change in America, and another with the era’s oppressive attitudes about women. Levinson, Crow take ‘Diner’ for a test-drive 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z It spawned more than a few negative reviews from people who found it hulking and oppressive, and wanted it removed. Richard Serra Is Carrying the Weight of the World 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Dorling doesn't mention these neo-Malthusian liberals because they don't fit the story he wants to tell, which is that the only limits on population are those imposed by oppressive human institutions. Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott – review 2013-07-05T07:01:01Z Grief is impolite, and, as Adichie puts it, “substantial, oppressive, a thing opaque.” Review | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes her way through grief 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But the station is not always so oppressive. Underground depicts a world both far removed and familiar 2013-01-08T16:43:47Z Depending on their roles, they toiled in the fields, raised families, endured hunger, worked for their freedom, suffered under oppressive laws and sought to protect their way of life. In Jamestown, a new exhibition pays homage to the women history overlooked 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z I recently moved to a foreign country, recently divorced, and recently left a stressful and oppressive job. The stress is killing me! 2013-06-03T00:00:00Z When it is discovered, he flees into the oppressive whiteness of a snowstorm. ‘Native Son’ Review: A Big Story Made Smaller 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s a breezy day – a brief respite from the area’s normally oppressive afternoon weather. Today, no one seems to be in a hurry. “I don’t want to babysit grown men”: A Florida tattoo artist among the hipsters 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z It's no wonder that oppressive regimes hate metal, and no surprise that metal is growing fast in some of the least-free societies on Earth. Why Ai Weiwei and heavy metal are a perfect match 2013-03-11T13:59:02Z There’s a bit of runaway corporate power, an oppressive bureaucracy overseen by a “Council of Ministers,” a Covid-like plague, native displacement and more. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Later, though, when their talk turns to sex, these young, capable women stammer and even panic, and the palpable heat that they’ve stirred up — simply by being young and alive — condenses into an oppressive fog. ‘Happening’ Review: An Abortion Story, an Existential Drama 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Women are generally cast in the leading roles, with the shows drawing on a liberal feminist trope of exposing religious life as traumatizing and oppressive. Netflix’s "My Unorthodox Life" urged ultra-Orthodox Jewish women to talk publicly about their lives 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z But the oppressive heat and humidity that lingered into the evening hardly put a damper on the National Symphony Orchestra and its impassioned, exuberant season-opening concert at Wolf Trap. Pianist Emanuel Ax, NSO woo Wolf Trap audience with Brahms 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Yet under restrictive Soviet policies, the influence of the conservative Georgian church, and his father’s English-learning mandate, Mr. Arison found his childhood oppressive. And You Thought Your Family Was Modern 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z "Bridesmaids" activists want to send a bracing message to a business that has become increasingly oppressive for the women who work within it as well as for those who consume its product. Seeing "Bridesmaids" is a social responsibility 2011-05-12T16:17:00Z “I was a Boy Scout,” he said, “but now a house with the flag has become an oppressive symbol. I wanted to show how it’s been co-opted, as if it didn’t belong to me.” Robert Battle on Running Ailey: ‘This Is My Choreography Now’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Con’s long screed about needing “new forms” in theater feels a bit oppressive, even without the swipe at “Hamilton.” Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z And while these pieces finally converge, by the time they do, the movie’s claustrophobia has become oppressive and you’re looking for the exit. ‘Ultrasound’ Review: Trapped in a Murky Mystery 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Having spent time in a school – not a residential one, but still oppressive – that tried to "take the Indian out of the Indian," Robertson's mother was painfully aware of the threat of racism. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z Most oppressive of all is that favorite crutch of scripts about pudgy, balding men: Attractive women are eager to jump into bed with them. Review: In ‘Death of the Liberal Class,’ a Writer Tones Down His Anger 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq was despotic, oppressive, criminal and worse. Review: ‘Homeland: Iraq Year Zero’ Chronicles a War-Torn Family 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z If the technologies of surveillance and control now surrounding us are turned to oppressive ends, we may all find ourselves with a suddenly renewed need for strength drawn from religious faith. Alif the Unseen: speculative fiction meets the Arab spring 2012-12-13T09:58:14Z After all, how much damage have our collective bursts of Twitter outrage done to the oppressive systems that allow people like him to accumulate that level of wealth to begin with? Quitting Twitter is easy — changing ourselves is harder 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z These faux-Socratic dialogues are premised on the fallacy that all opinions about art are equally valid and that learning from authority is somehow oppressive. How to view art: Be dead serious about it, but don’t expect too much To be clear, there's nothing especially brave about having harmful political views that are written into oppressive laws across the country. Meghan McCain’s legacy at “The View” exposes real-life problems with across-the-aisle "friendships" 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z In the early 1960s, my own Florida family also provided shelter to another group of desperate refugees—a Cuban family fleeing Fidel Castro’s oppressive Communist regime. Our fathers escaped the Holocaust: Recovering a wartime friendship through letters 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z His presence is as oppressive as the desert sun. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle: Book Three’ 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z The twists, in this production, are that the protagonist is rebellious, Prince Charming is gay, and beauty standards are oppressive. ‘Bad Cinderella’ Had a Not Good Run on Broadway. It Will Close June 4. 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z One rap against Wye Oak is its languor, which can feel oppressive and too guarded. The Week Ahead: Aug. 29 ? Sept. 4 2010-08-26T15:25:00Z And the very next story in this volume, "An Adventure at Brownville," ends with another Californian woman falling to her death, driven to it in some obscure way by an oppressive male ego. Is "Vertigo" just the fever dream of a dying man? 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Day after day, the oppressive weight of every bad decision he ever made bears down on him like a boulder, and there is no escape. This year's Oscar nominees class photo: the real stars emerge 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z For those who don’t celebrate Christmas, or just happen not to enjoy its crushing dominance at year’s end, jingle-bell pop can be merely oppressive. Twelve Feel-Good Seasonal Pop Classics, with and Without Christmas 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z But isn’t there something a little oppressive about it? Generation X-Mas: The Rise of A Christmas Story 2011-12-24T14:59:14Z Both are expressions of an almost oppressive sincerity, and of a rare faith in his own transcendent capacity to convince, to convert, and to entertain. Tom Cruise: The Good Kind of Crazy 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z “Far-left politicians continue to push the destructive message that our nation and our law enforcement are oppressive or racist,” Trump said during his visit to the small city. ‘Race and Violence in our Cities’? A topic for the first presidential debate draws criticism. 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The oppressive behaviour of rich white men has got to stop. Bryan Cranston: ‘I’m a mutt. I relate to that. It’s what I am’ 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z But in their oppressive situation as Jews under Communism, he is less concerned with expressing himself than with surviving. A Charming, Poignant Middle-Grade Memoir of Soviet Russia 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z This sly and defiant metafictional road movie, about two friends investigating the possible suicide of an aspiring actress, dramatizes unquestioned patriarchal tradition and desperate responses to its oppressive power. 2019 Has Already Been an Exceptional Year in Movies 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Fukunaga’s soaring landscape shots, dreamy flashbacks, and skill with making the Louisiana summer look authentically disgusting and oppressive unified the season with a visual language that was stunning and individual. Forget Colin Farrell – here's how True Detective can stay great 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z These are the town gossips as Greek chorus, yet while they’re funny, sort of, there’s also something oppressive about these busybodies. Movie Review: ?Bernie? With Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine 2012-04-26T21:53:23Z No one I speak to who is home schooling today mentions that this sort of oppressive regulation is a reality for current home-schooling families. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z Obama is on the move in his book, but he moves not to escape the onerous bonds known to the early memoirists – the bonds of slavery, Jim Crow, prison or an oppressive home. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z But the oppressive atmosphere flattered the signs, which blurred in the pearly air and leaked reflections on to the slick streets, as if the gas inside them were turning moist all over again. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z What results are dissertation-like monologues where the reader is schooled on the intricacies of white guilt as it relates to oppressive cultures. ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’: A Literary Tale of Love and Obsession 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z In one of the show’s more pointedly funny moments, the Kid argues that it’s not always that easy to forge a path to a less oppressive life. Theater Review: ‘QueerSpawn,’ Directed by Jesse Geiger 2013-05-14T21:26:11Z To older Villagers, like my parents and my aunt and uncle, the big blocks and towers looked oppressive and monolithic, defying the scale, character and diversity of the area. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z This is an intercontinental novel about neighbors, the dangers and consolations of having people next door under oppressive laws. Unlikely Friends, United by Protest and Troubled Histories 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z The piece suffers in spots from a glacial slowness, and its aura of heavy, grainy gloom and failure gets oppressive. ‘Salesman is Dead and Gone’ follows Willy Loman to the grave 2013-12-16T19:36:45Z It was dispiriting, even oppressive, to spend so much time around someone who never learned, and never changed. What Happens When a Bad-Tempered, Distractible Doofus Runs an Empire? 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z They may see it as a rejection of the oppressive attitudes of the older generation. What's The King's Speech's secret weapon of mass adulation? 2011-02-22T16:45:41Z Later episodes dealt with predatory teachers and relationships gone sour, while most of Veronica's classmates had unpleasant secrets, from physical abuse to oppressive parents to hide. Veronica Mars: box set review 2013-03-14T15:30:01Z The great big family that envelops employees appears to have its oppressive side. The Internship: how cinema sold its soul – but didn't get paid 2013-07-01T14:45:37Z But he astutely captures the dreary, oppressive Sunday afternoon atmosphere of the era, and a family in emotional retreat from each other. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 2010-09-27T22:20:00Z There’s no straightforward narrative arc in “La Ciénaga”; instead, the oppressive heat is the plot, and Martel studies the instincts that it unleashes in her petty, middle-class characters. Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z It is also an oppressive testosterone-fest. By my count, the fifth floor Fisher galleries don't feature a single work by a female artist. Sneak peek: Touring the new SFMOMA, San Francisco's billowing new contemporary museum 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z To Lila’s oppressive disorder—the menstrual clots, the yellow gobbets, the things flying apart—she will oppose her own, once-despised instinct for order. Elena Ferrante’s New Book: Art Wins 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z Botanic Garden is free, and its grower, Elliott Norman, and plant curator, Bill McLaughlin, are simply thrilled to get visitors during the oppressive heat and humidity of high summer in Washington. Corpse flowers are invading the East Coast: Here’s how to see (and smell) one 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Enter William Rees-Mogg, a man of oppressive scholarship and sonorous ethics, living testimony to the refined days of upmarket Fleet Street that supposedly swept away. Memoirs by William Rees-Mogg - review 2011-07-13T15:00:02Z All because in the right hands, comedy can be dynamite under the oppressive backsides of authoritarian groups or regimes – who by definition have absolutely no sense of humour. Feminists can't be funny and angry? Are you having a laugh? 2013-02-28T14:50:01Z It’s oppressive stuff, installed, as if for maximum discretion, like a traditional photography display: a line of small, harmless-looking framed things — video screens in this case — on the wall. ‘Perpetual Revolution’ Shows Artists Shaping Their Times 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z There were critics calling the clothing oppressive, and defenders replying it would only be oppressive if Aden had been forced to wear it. Perspective | Sports Illustrated now has a model in a burkini. Can the swimsuit issue truly get woke? 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z The book is filled with state violence — murder and torture, as well as the softer oppressive tools, like censorship and imprisonment — and its disempowering, dehumanizing effects. Han Kang's 'Human Acts' is a fractured fictional reckoning with the Gwangju massacre 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z "It gets to be an overwhelming, oppressive burden to keep up with all this stuff." SD museum adds Elvis' guitar to vast collection 2013-04-25T16:14:15Z “It’s oppressive. I want to create a hotel where no one stops you.” Roy Choi, King of L.A. Food Trucks, Moves On to a Hotel 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z They happen upon an ambush, and Robin is tasked by a dying man to return a sword to Nottingham, a once-proud village now forced into a hand-to-mouth existence under oppressive taxation. Film: Ridley Scott?s New Spectacle Film: ?Robin Hood? 2010-05-07T23:29:00Z In Stardew Valley, corporate greed is a far more oppressive force than homophobia. Live Your Gay Millennial Pandemic Fantasy in Stardew Valley 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z In a year rocked by the Brett Kavanaugh affair, which reminded us of the oppressive privilege of white, male teens, it was exciting to view a few possible alternatives. The Year in Good Men 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Jordan has honed his skills and set his goals while plotting to challenge an oppressive system that has weighed people of color down. How Michael B Jordan fought his way to the top of Hollywood 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z While “Minsk” summons a city suffocating beneath an oppressive state, Philip Ridley’s savage and utterly gripping “Mercury Fur” imagines another European capital as a land of lawlessness. Critic’s Notebook: In London, ‘Minsk, 2011’ and ‘Mercury Fur’ 2012-06-29T22:09:31Z His transcendental sentences encourage people struggling to reconceive the oppressive order of the world in a way that lets them imagine they’re above it all. Perspective | Why I still love Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Over the course of filming, Ms. Green said, “the government was getting more oppressive with the girls and everyone was getting more scared. It was obvious that things were changing.” The Hot Docs Festival Shows Documentaries Shot in Ukraine 2014-04-18T18:37:42Z For example, an early moment in which onstage figures converge on Bigger, shoving him from all sides, seems to refer too explicitly to oppressive social realities. Review | ‘Native Son’ gets a 90-minute stage adaptation, with a Black Rat in Bigger’s ear 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Long a fan of Rascal Flatts, Bieber drew some of the night's biggest cheers from the crowd in a corridor of the arena, where the red carpet was moved to avoid oppressive temperatures near 100. Swift wins video of year at CMT Awards >> Red carpet photos 2011-06-09T05:08:00Z Britney has been on a lot of people's minds lately, in the aftermath of the documentary "Framing Britney Spears" and the widespread news about the oppressive terms of her father's conservatorship. Britney Spears is a cautionary tale of pornification 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z The group’s “gigs” largely consisted of casual performances in living rooms, basements, cafes, even the roof of their house during evenings when the oppressive Lubbock summer weather became tolerable. Flatlanders find new life with 'lost' recording 2013-04-05T17:48:00Z Some view them as innocents fleeing an oppressive regime — and, for many women, an abusive home life — while others insist these escapees were “malicious criminals, filthy beggars and the unwanted.” In an Enchanted World, Echoes of Today’s Political Dramas 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z The oppressive sense of suffering all around her – as oppressive as wildfire smoke – spurs her to become a leader, taking action in what appears to be hopeless circumstances. Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The House did indeed impeach a Federalist justice, Samuel Chase, for being “highly arbitrary, oppressive and unjust,” but after Marshall testified for Chase, the Senate acquitted him. The Man Who Made the Supreme Court Supreme 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z It removed the oppressive bridge that loomed over 65th Street and in its place on the plaza in front of the Beaumont made room for a glass pavilion housing an upscale restaurant, the Lincoln. Architecture Review: Hugh Hardy’s Tow Theater at Lincoln Center 2012-07-15T20:52:10Z There’s an amusing element of oppressive office comedy among the harried clerks and claustrophobic warrens of the time authority. Review: ‘Loki,’ on the Light Side of the Marvel Streaming Universe 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z The oppressive atmosphere of the novel transcends fiction. A Uyghur Author and Translator Were Detained. Now, Their Novel Speaks For Them. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z A gallery is filled with very large, immensely dark pictures: an angry, oppressive, demanding display. Sally Mann’s Haunted South 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Even those brief interludes cannot lift the oppressive gloom. ‘Come Away’ Review: Escaping Grief Through Fantasy 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Every moment a teaching moment: impressive — oppressive, too, perhaps, if it’s true, and I’m betting it is. In 'A Mother's Reckoning,' Sue Klebold tries to make sense of her son and Columbine 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Once put back together, those parts constitute the oppressive social constructs that pass for the self. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In the interview, Meghan said she considered suicide, while Harry said he and his family were “trapped” in an oppressive institution. The Latest: Ex-Australian leader urges changing royal ties 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z American leadership, like American life, is imperfect, unfair, and often oppressive. Trump’s Locker Room Is His Safe Space 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z There are valid reasons for both phenomena: Bunnies are cute, and mothers are oppressive. There’s a glut of bunnies and dead moms in children’s books 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Did the dramatic moment of a well known entertainer proudly coming out as gay on TV, with widespread support from the media and the industry, end the oppressive invisibility of gay people? The dark side of “visibility”: How we slept on trans people becoming the new scapegoats of the right 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z “It sort of captures how oppressive daylight can be.” Summer means a parade of long, sunny days, and it’s actually the worst 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z As we watch its heroine’s existence devolve from an oppressive domestic servitude into something disastrously worse, Guzel Yakhina’s sprawling, ambitious first novel, “Zuleikha,” reminds us just how brutal the Soviet system was. Exiled to Siberia: A First Novel Revisits Stalin’s Great Purge 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Yet despite her innocence and heartbreaking loneliness, she quickly learns that, in a world where an oppressive, religious patriarchy holds sway, her outsider status gives her a power that others can’t even imagine. Review | For fans of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z In reality, motherhood for me is the opposite of oppressive; it’s been an amazing liberation. Modern Love: Chained to the Hearth or Warmed by It? 2013-09-05T23:01:20Z The Worlds Fair was a bust – insane crowds, oppressive heat and a blazing sun, absolutely no shade, and everything cost five times what it did a subway ride away in the city. The Village Voice and me: The untold story of how I became a writer 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z The Iranian government is horribly oppressive, of course, but Iranian society is vibrant and artistically rich, with women representing well more than half of the student population at the university level. It’s written all over their faces 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z He continues, “Marriage used to be a lot of things, many of them oppressive towards women and minorities.” Two NFL players go head to head on gay marriage 2012-10-02T15:57:00Z But the weather was perfect — tropical, without the oppressive heat and humidity. Away Is Home | Beat the crowds with off-season travel hacks 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z The Simon, “An Elegy: A Cry From the Grave,” is a solemnly lyrical and emotive reflection on, its composer once wrote, those killed by an oppressive power. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Feminism, multi-culturalism and anti-colonialism not only sought to correct injustices, but uncovered oppressive structures buried deep within the foundations of Western civilisation. Extract: Requiem for a Species by Clive Hamilton 2010-04-16T09:19:00Z Engaging in what Marxists call “heightening the contradictions,” Caldwell argues that the oppressive imperialism of civil rights laws is not incidental. Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z The raw, heartbreaking film, directed by the Afghan filmmaker Sahra Mani, shows the double threat of a broken judicial system and ingrained oppressive and sexist attitudes. These Movies Haunted Me at the Human Rights Watch Festival 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z “It is awful and oppressive,” White Plume says. Hemp: how one little plant could boost America's economy 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z It gets at how “women are always trapped in reflection,” as society holds up an oppressive mirror. Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It’s as if Wilkin was expressing the anticipated objections of critics wedded to oppressive Cartesian reason, and Ms. Birkenmeier chose to defy her own character and double down. Review: More than the Couples Are Odd in ‘The Hollower’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z My research shows how women – typically small activist groups in many countries – are using Sharia to fight against oppressive practices. Muslim women are using Sharia to push for gender equality 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z A political drama about an oppressive, corrupt regime trying to avert insurrection is compelling, even if this rendering of it seems a little out of date. Adam Rayner Stars in ‘Tyrant,’ a Thriller on FX 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Something about the titles of those dishes also sounds oppressive, like I never had a positive exchange with someone with the name Wellington. "Dated, goofy or both": Lower your grocery bill by retiring these 11 tired dishes 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z These are melancholic lands, with oppressive weather systems, the film explains, but it's when talking about Sweden that it really gets up and running. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-12-20T00:05:02Z Ogawa draws clear parallels to Orwell's "1984" here: the truth of human experience can be forced into whatever shape an oppressive government dictates, with the threat of complete oblivion always on the horizon. You need to read this: 5 hot new fiction books coming in August 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Using words so much, the writer begins to find them oppressive; not any word in particular, but the compulsive onward movement of words in the mind. Sticking the world together with words 2010-07-19T09:22:00Z I’ve always loved the promise of the first cool snap while it’s still feeling lush and slightly oppressive. Why Do We End Summer So Early? 2015-09-05T04:00:00Z The British … are depicted in the Afghan sources as treacherous and oppressive, women-abusing terrorists. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z Those from Russia no longer want to be exposed to President Vladimir Putin’s increasingly oppressive regime. Ukrainian, Russian refugee dancers find help in Berlin 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z But rather than embracing the freedoms of that new environment, I felt drawn to recreating oppressive structures, albeit ironically. My ironic sorority disaster 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z Locals aren’t crazy about this structure — not only for the questionable Starship Enterprise design, but also because of the oppressive regime it represented. Bratislava: Slovakia’s capital makes a remarkable comeback 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z What if the tools we use to retrieve mundane pieces of information are instead delivering oppressive ideas and hateful ideologies — even swaying elections? Why your search results are sexist and racist: A conversation about Google’s blind spots 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z “Le Corbeau” is about a plague of poison-pen letters in a provincial town that has the effect of making the community seem even narrower and more oppressive: it closes in on itself. Henri-Georges Clouzot Retrospective at MoMA 2011-12-04T04:03:02Z She wholeheartedly rejects that system because it is oppressive. "The Persian Version" director on creating a film that is "playful in terms of sexuality" 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The West Village: not the oppressive distant wealth of the Upper East Side, but one that knows its roots, and prizes keeping up appearances without showing off. Critical Shopper: At Jack Spade, Carefully Appearing Not to Care 2010-09-01T17:46:00Z Such transcendence is harder to transmit in the theater, even with the occasional use of Bergman’s oppressive close-ups. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z The snow they are encountering is lovely and not oppressive. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: Punch-Drunk 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z While Ditsie may not have known the phrase at the time, she always knew it was the key to toppling oppressive regimes. Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Despite being a huge jerk, Rick is an embraceable hero because he has an itch for dismantling oppressive systems. "Rick and Morty," resistance heroes, face a new nemesis channeling our current uncertainties 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z Regnerus’s argument – which relegates men to brainless automatons whose only on-button for productivity and planning is sex – does little to reinvent or challenge oppressive gender stereotypes. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Navy Photo Towards the end of the 20th century, the real impact of war, torture, or genocide on soft flesh can only be imagined beyond the picture frames of oppressive states and tightly controlled media. Photography's bodies of evidence | John Perivolaris 2010-04-04T14:00:00Z But because the dancing is so unadulterated, the holier-than-thou atmosphere isn’t oppressive. Dance Review: A Few Friendly Ghosts Help Out a Master of Tap 2011-06-23T21:43:56Z We’re dealing with longstanding, oppressive practices, but this is an industry that is usually willing to look in the mirror. ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man,’ From University to Broadway 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Whatever did Americans see in South Africa’s oppressive state? The real US policy toward Nelson Mandela 2013-12-12T12:35:00Z Much to my puzzlement, what I found was an aesthetic and an ethos of sober, even oppressive restraint. Art Review: Refined Restraint in ‘Treasures from Korea,’ in Philadelphia 2014-03-20T12:00:02Z Second, commitment can be not only unpleasant but also oppressive. ‘Dedicated’ Makes the Case for Choosing Something and Sticking With It 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z The memes are funny, like those about rescuing aliens from Area 51, but a lot less fanciful, as they’re talking about an actual oppressive regime, not the possibility of E.T.s in the desert. Did Storming Area 51 Teach Us Anything? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z The Met’s facade is an oppressive windmill to tilt at. Rocks Not So Solid on the Met’s Face 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z At first it felt oppressive: I grieved losing so much time with my son, and sat alone in my empty house, hours stretching ahead of me into days. Seven things I wish I'd known before my divorce: an optimistic guide to the future 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z This drifting was frustrating at moments but also felt purposeful, a structural reminder of the subterfuge required by dissident writers working against and within a society ruled by an oppressive bureaucratic regime. Theater Review: ‘The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,’ a Wry Czech Tale 2014-03-12T16:30:28Z The celebrity hysterics were indeed exploited but they also exploited the system, participating in a hospital culture that was in many ways less oppressive than the world beyond it. Medical Muses by Asti Hustvedt - review 2011-07-15T21:55:01Z In 2016, Ms. Spears told a court investigator that the arrangement was oppressive and that she was “sick of being taken advantage of,” according to the investigator’s account of the conversation. Judge Ends Conservatorship Overseeing Britney Spears’s Life and Finances 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z "The real victors in this are the people of Bell, who were able to get rid of, there's no other way to say it, an oppressive regime," Gottlieb said. Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z Photograph: Courtesy Of Elizabethan Gardens If you think the beauty myth is oppressive nowadays, picture what it was like to be a woman in Renaissance Europe. Fading queen 2013-02-13T15:46:04Z And in Clayhanger, Anna of the Five Towns and other books, the Potteries were portrayed as places of oppressive religious conformity, bullying Victorian patriarchs and philistine attitudes to art and literature. In celebration of the 'unknown' Arnold Bennett 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z Indeed, Rash’s material detail, depiction of work and evocation of place — of nature, woods and stream, the play of light and the oppressive dark of the monstrous cliff — are truly splendid. Megaphone by Natalie Bakopoulos 2012-05-28T15:00:00Z Students at Exeter refer to the dining hall he built there, for example, as “the Crematorium” because of its brick chimneys and air of oppressive menace. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Yet a strategy designed to target major newspapers and oppressive regimes wreaks havoc when focussed on individuals, as Ronson soon discovered. Monica Lewinsky and the Shame Game 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It is Mr. Cannavale, though, who must carry the play — and the weight of Yank’s increasingly oppressive world — on his shoulders, which he does with both puffed-up arrogance and shrunken resignation. Review: A Mesmerizing ‘Hairy Ape’ Brings Existentialism to Park Avenue 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z Tim Mitchell’s lighting, whether a single naked bulb or a stage full of them, was both magical and suitably oppressive as needed. A ‘Streetcar’ that will move you 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z He's a public example of the mortal danger journalists face from oppressive governments instead of defending those who put their lives on the line to keep us informed. "Kingdom of Silence": A wrenching look at how Jamal Khashoggi's life is a story as big as his death 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z He starts “Visions” with the oppressive “November 20,” using its militant pace and urgent thrum to introduce tension that’s never fully relieved until the final note. Damien Jurado has a vision to share at the Neptune Theatre 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z An extended sequence dominated by snare drums and bass drums, their sound gradually swelling to oppressive proportions, seemed to reflect the dual military qualities of discipline and violence. ‘A Gun Show’ Raises Questions Beyond the Music 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z “Cabs leave at midnight” becomes her new battle call as the years grow more oppressive and her younger sisters threaten to run away. Best science fiction and fantasy in June While Joshua gathers intel, guerrilla warriors continue their fight against what they see as an oppressive government. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Silva cranks up the tension as the atmosphere becomes more oppressive and dysfunctional. Film review: The Maid 2010-08-26T22:09:00Z This memorial, which suspends above its visitors an oppressive and heavy weight of history, asks and answers a question that others avoid: Was it as bad as this? Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z An inescapable, almost oppressive sense of loss permeates each page of this powerful debut novel about a mixed-race New Orleans family in the days after Hurricane Katrina. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Much of the civil unrest took the form of nationwide urban riots and was clearly the result of racial tensions, frustrations, and anger at oppressive living conditions and the endemic hopelessness of inner-city life. Was James Earl Ray innocent? 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z So you just take what the other thing was and reverse it and it actually becomes almost as oppressive. Fintan O'Toole on Ireland's transformation — and the reverse version now underway in America 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z So the slower-than-usual Dies Irae was crushingly oppressive, while the relaxed Sanctus, though marred by some ragged ensemble at the start, was all grace and playfulness. Philharmonia/Gatti – review 2013-04-21T15:09:37Z “There will be a boundary fence but not obtrusive or oppressive.” ‘Eventually I knew she was no longer safe alone’: how do we care for family with dementia? 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Visually, you capture LA in the glaring sun and oppressive heat… "Destroyer" director Karyn Kusama: "I’m keeping a smile on my face and seething inside" 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z The notion of artists struggling against an oppressive state is always attractive and inspiring, especially for those democratic societies where artists are not subjected to such intimidation. Escaped From Belarus, Actors Raise Voices 2011-01-05T00:00:51Z The absence of that oppressive ritual lightened my afternoon so much it felt like an out-of-body experience. I took a commercial flight to another city for just one day. Here’s why. 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z I’ve done this walk in downpours and in snowstorms, on perfect springtime mornings and oppressive, record-breaking hot summer days. Everyone needs an anthem 2012-09-02T17:00:00Z “The Killing” is as bleak and oppressive as any, but it’s so well told that it’s almost heartening. | 'The Killing': A Thinking Woman?s Detective 2011-04-01T20:18:51Z His renderings of the physical and societal confines the migrants were escaping couldn’t be more oppressive. SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The thick silver-leaf frames to which these works have been subjected are slightly oppressive. Art in Review: JOHN MARIN: ?The Weehawken Sequence? 2011-02-17T23:26:12Z "Go West" was a celebration of leaving oppressive small-minded towns and moving out to California where there was acceptance for gays. The healing power of "Philadelphia" 2011-05-18T18:01:00Z In this highly strung state, he considered Paris foreign, hostile, oppressive, febrile, and “close to death.” Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z He intended, he said in a phone interview, to highlight how trapped Chinese citizens are when an oppressive government controls the flow of information. A Violinist Lost His Seat and His Job. He Blames China. 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Before the austerity became too oppressive, the house lights briefly came on and Anderson suggested the audience draw pictures of her so that she could sell them at her next tour stop. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z So they knew very well how oppressive marriage could be, and this idea of, to quote Andrea, "men possessing women." Can women be saved from bad sex? "Finding your desires is a conscious process," says author 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Be warned: this really is a very violent movie, the like of which I haven't experienced since Gaspar Noé's legendary 2002 film Irréversible, and for me, extreme violence is difficult and oppressive. Film review: The Killer Inside Me 2010-06-03T21:08:00Z It was pretty enough; the hills were few and easily conquerable, and though the day was warm it wasn’t oppressive. In Transit: Traveling by Bike, Practically Speaking 2011-08-08T16:44:06Z In one realm, the girl lives under the oppressive hand of her stepfather, an army officer serving under Franco. What’s On TV Tuesday: Greta Gerwig on ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘Survival in the Skies’ 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The dull persistence of the negotiations with the E.U. and the political deadlock in Parliament form an oppressive thrum that pervades British cultural and political life. The Sound of Brexit at the BBC Proms 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z But all those involved reject monogamy as stifling, or oppressive, or simply not to their taste. All you need is loves: the truth about polyamory 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Might what was previously deemed oppressive perhaps be liberating? It’s time to stop looking for yourself 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z But those simple narratives can lead to “demeaning and oppressive” objectification, she said. The radical power of ordinary Black life 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z The principal prop of Daniel Cremer's set is a shipping container with an oppressive array of plastic garbage bags and other debris in and around it. 11 weird moments from the 2011 arts scene 2011-12-28T21:50:04Z People have to find common ground, not revenge, and trust each other if we are ever to escape this cycle of oppressive brutality. My Struggle to Write Honestly About a Test of Manhood 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z With history as a backdrop, and imagination extending the limits of lives lived under oppressive conditions, Neshat offers an exquisitely framed window onto these women’s world. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z Alaska draws huge amounts of money from a federal government that we bash constantly for being oppressive. ArtsBeat: A Father’s Wrath: Tom Kizzia Talks About ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’ 2013-07-24T18:12:36Z Whitten, who died in 2018, felt a strong connection to the country, where as a Black man he found a measure of liberation from the oppressive racial politics of the United States. Jack Whitten’s ‘Lost Chapter,’ Now at Dia:Beacon 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z In turn, the youngsters chastised the oldsters for enabling the oppressive status quo with cool-girl posturing. Team older feminist: am I allowed nuanced feelings about #MeToo? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The ceremonial space at the end of the path is also appropriately formal without being oppressive or overbearing. Review | New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z In this formulation, self-care was no longer a litmus test for social equality; it was a way to insist to a violent and oppressive culture that you mattered, that you were worthy of care. The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Ironies and contradictions abound, even as some of the basic facts assert themselves with blunt, oppressive force. ‘Queen & Slim’ Review: Love on the Run 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Many urban youth of color describe oppressive places that have a primary goal of imposing rules and maintaining control. For white folks who teach in the hood: A lesson in campus colonialism 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Artists have been trying to provoke audiences ever since, elevating shock to an artistic value, a sign that they are fighting the good fight against oppressive tradition and bourgeois morality. Shock Me if You Can 2012-09-14T22:36:46Z But the production by Audi treats all this as a weirdly oppressive nightmare. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Instead these poor dancers slog away, mired in an idea of a performance that is, in the end, more oppressive than the societal codes they seek to convey. Dance Review: The Methods of Maleness, Kilts Included 2011-01-07T21:47:47Z Where crowds are sparse, or at least not Venice-level oppressive, locals are often just as curious about visitors as visitors are of them. How to Up the Spontaneity Quotient on Your Next Trip 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z They’re atheists who treat the figure of Satan as an inspiring piece of mythology, a symbol of individual freedom and resistance to oppressive orthodoxy. Why so many Christians still literally believe in demons and Satan 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z And I found myself going back and forth in my mind over the question, Are these nice men, or are they oppressive? The Origins of 'Privilege' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z But it’s doubtful that those Americans who see face masks as unpatriotic, oppressive and a sign of weakness will cotton to “namaste,” with its roots in Hinduism and association with yoga culture. Perspective | The handshake will return. It’s too much a part of who we are. 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z In Karachi, it can be the most oppressive of months, marked by heat and dryness and vanishing sea breezes. What the months of the year mean to me 2010-12-17T08:30:00Z There’s no getting around it: “Oedipus El Rey,” like its model, is bleak — despite a hasty little coda about breaking cycles of violence and forging “new stories” to replace the old oppressive ones. In eSe Teatro production, ‘Oedipus’ gets an L.A. makeover | Theater review 2012-12-10T22:17:46Z Resetting “The Arabian Nights” in modern-day Cairo, “Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story” presents an environment of oppressive politics and repressed women. | 'Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story': A TV Host Seeks Fluff, but Real Life Intrudes 2011-08-11T22:45:54Z Ardent republicans might find the current flowering of bunting and jingoism oppressive, but they're not short of safe outlets for their dissent. Why pop stars won't be attacking the monarchy this jubilee 2012-06-01T12:01:08Z It would be the first Uyghur novel to appear in English, and he considered the grim tale of one man’s struggle within an oppressive environment one of his most consequential works. A Uyghur Author and Translator Were Detained. Now, Their Novel Speaks For Them. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z And I realized this is why we were oppressive to work with—because, in parallel fashion, I had been taught that whites make knowledge. The Origins of 'Privilege' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z A six-film strong box set of oppressive realism from the Belgian siblings. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-12-22T00:05:12Z And yet, it’s not nearly as oppressive for the viewer as it could be. Loss and Hope: A Documentary Presents the Flip Side of Hoosiers 2013-04-19T09:45:43Z In my books, I try to show how these oppressive paradigms work together with the social reality of the characters to undermine the very dreams the characters have for themselves. The search for decolonial love 2012-07-02T20:54:00Z I remember the oppressive heat, and the two officers walking toward me. Alzheimer's in the era of COVID-19: What do you do when you're estranged—and next of kin? 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z More important for such people is whether you trust American and other Western institutions, or regard them as inherently corrupt and oppressive. How Edward Snowden changed history 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Toppling oppressive regimes and protesting corruption are appropriately top of mind. The Web for the neighborhood 2012-07-04T14:05:00Z “It’s just a beautifully woven story of the generations of damage that are done by oppressive regimes.” Jon Stewart Tells Maziar Bahari’s Story With ‘Rosewater’ 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Without the breathing spaces afforded by scene-changes and cuts – three days later, earlier that morning etc – the atmosphere intensifies and accumulates in an uncanny, oppressive way, like a seance. The Silent House ? review 2011-04-07T14:00:00Z With predictable complements of heartsick teenagers, busybody servants and oppressive guardians, they could easily fall into rote. Music Review: Rossini Double Bill by Julliard Opera at Lincoln Center 2012-02-05T22:34:44Z About the only thing that seemed the worse for wear were the 38-year-old Hawaiian singer's trademark curls, which unraveled in middle Tennessee's oppressive humidity. Jack Johnson pulls off the switch at Bonnaroo 2013-06-16T05:40:10Z The Democratic party, which has been, we've been their side chick for the last 55 years for about 100 years before that we were the most oppressive regime, and actually spawned members of the Klan. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z He described marriage as “a rotten, oppressive institution,” a “contract which smothers both people, denies needs, and places impossible demands,” especially on women. Canada's LGBTQ coin glosses over radical struggles: When did gay liberation come to mean equality? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z Sara Taksler’s film opens with a disclaimer, “Speaking out against oppressive regimes may cause side effects” and lists headaches, mood swings, indigestion and the loss of constitutional rights, among other things. The documentary “Tickling Giants” is a chronicle of weaponized satire and the Arab Spring 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z He came to prominence with his successful opposition to the Motion Picture Patents Company and its oppressive control over filmmaking. ‘King of Jazz’ now playing — once again — in living Technicolor 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z If they do pursue a career in science, women are often subjected to harassment, ignored, and spend an inordinate amount of time navigating oppressive systems. "Picture a Scientist" examines the hostile, sexist STEM environments that drive women to leave 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z She sees surrogacy as work, but, unlike Lewis, who believes that work is inherently oppressive, Mae thinks that work can set you free. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Was it oppressive to live in this dark world each day during production? Quick Talk With Sarah Silverman 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z As a nineteen-year-old, I read in Rich and Baldwin a twinned dissatisfaction with systems invested in a single, dominant, oppressive narrative. Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Transformations 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Seeing women as fully human may cost men certain kinds of oppressive power, but it pays dividends to the human race in nearly every other way. Deadly silence: what happens when we don't believe women 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z By filming solid citizens engaged in the ordinary pursuit of tranquil happiness, he was able to reveal, with a quiet fury, the false, blind, and oppressive values on which that respectable society was built. Movie of the Week: “Dragnet Girl” 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z There is the atmosphere he experiences as an assault on his senses and person; you feel the harshness of the “glittering appearances,” the shrill “noise and disorder,” the oppressive “tone” of the home. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z It was quite fun but I got a lot more interested in the copyright saga and the idea of the Stationers' Company as this really quite powerful and in some respects quite oppressive company. Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy 2011-08-12T06:28:31Z Yet as the pages progress, the imagery becomes oppressive. Three Canadian Novels Test the Bonds — and Boundaries — of Family 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Freed from urban constraints, the man grows to find their oppressive existence honest, even liberating. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z But trudging from the Lido’s oppressive beach heat into the cool of the Sala Grande theater for the morning screenings of “Joker,” we sensed a larger moment was at hand. When a Film Festival Goes Virtual, What Do We Lose? Or Gain? 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Q: You wrote in "The Female Malady" that historically, psychiatric medicine was used to punish women who weren't toeing the patriarchal line, and that mental illness was a form of resistance to those oppressive structures. Perspective | Seeing ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ through a feminist lens 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Even toned down by the presence of some of his contemporaries’ works, that image thrusts itself upon the viewer to the point where it becomes almost oppressive. Art: The Gloomy Brilliance of Lucas Cranach 2011-03-04T12:00:05Z We all cheered at take off because the feeling of racism in that country is so oppressive. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The work was oppressive in the plantation kitchens at Christmas time. Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z The mood is melancholy, yes, but hardly oppressive; Rondeau’s touch and pace is so varied that even this program of broadly related works seems to span a whole universe of sound. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Donnie Darko was a mostly passive protagonist struggling against both the oppressive system of high school and the levers of fate that he could only pull at the film’s climax. Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly: 'Sometimes films need time to marinate' 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z To capture the oppressive nature of memory and human consciousness, actress Nanna Ingvarsson needs just her mouth. Review | One actress commands the stage in Scena Theatre’s ‘The Beckett Trio’ 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Indigo was produced on slave plantations in the American South and later under oppressive British rule in India. | Long Island: Seeing Asian Cultures, Through an Indigo Lens 2014-04-11T22:56:11Z Would they loosen their grips on the crazy-making college admissions process, the oppressive expectations that allegedly drove their peers to criminal acts? The college-admissions scandal rattled rich parents. But will it change them? 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The episode was as visually dazzling as it was oppressive — there was no relief, it seemed, from the story of the onslaught at the Wall. “Game of Thrones”: “The Watchers on the Wall” was no “Blackwater” 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z As they draw together and attempt to understand the new psychic link that bonds them, an oppressive organization pursues them. Netflix cancels “Sense8,” arguably the most progressive scifi show ever 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Their findings from missions like this, disseminated in the news media and at conferences, illuminate oppressive regimes and can influence national policies. ‘E-Team’ Examines Human Rights Watch Investigators 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z “Carol” is a gorgeous romantic drama about two women in an oppressive era. What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Carol’ and ‘The Durrells in Corfu’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The staff was almost all male, and the sexism was oppressive. Lily Renée Phillips, Pioneering Comic Book Artist, Dies at 101 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Since making his feature debut in 1989, he has written and directed 10 other films that often upend storytelling conventions, frequently in an oppressive, claustrophobic atmosphere, and eschew happy endings. The Carpetbagger: Michael Haneke Finds His Brando 2012-12-19T17:06:21Z Sometimes it becomes oppressive — the history, the choking familiarity, the endlessly repeated fights. Louis C.K.’s ‘Horace and Pete’: Mournful and Unshakable 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Two hit men wait in a gloomy, airless room — a kind of subterranean boiler room in Robert Dahlstrom's oppressive set. Theater review: 2 excellent one-acts open ACT Pinter Festival 2012-07-30T22:51:02Z Ms. Markel, who was previously attached as a producer of “Inferno,” said that that film had “a good script,” but that “it was so dark and oppressive.” Amanda Seyfried Plays Linda Lovelace in Biopic 2012-02-12T07:53:05Z But the need to suddenly create and manage a different structure for family life is as oppressive as a string of 90-degree days. Motherlode Blog: Summer, and the Devil Is in the Scheduling 2012-06-21T16:53:47Z But as Ms. Francis-Kelly staggers and then grows beneath each successive layer, we feel their full, oppressive weight, literally and metaphorically. Review: ‘texts&beheadings/ElizabethR,’ the English Queen in Her Multifaceted Majesty 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z For the African-Americans in Wilkerson's narrative and for many of the UK and US's Dalits, migration was an act of secession from an oppressive social order. Recognising caste discrimination will improve life for Britain's Dalits 2010-12-21T15:34:38Z Staggering out of a theater into the oppressive rays of the sun, it sure can feel that way. 'A total blast': our writers pick their favorite summer blockbusters ever 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Paul sees a news report about a political dissident involuntarily made tiny by an oppressive government and later discovers festering inequality around Leisureland itself. Review: In ‘Downsizing,’ Matt Damon Sweats the Small Stuff 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z There are books that changed the nature of work, such as Upton Sinclair’s 1906 work “The Jungle,” which brought attention to the oppressive conditions for workers in Chicago’s meatpacking industry. 100 books that shaped work in America 2013-12-31T21:52:11Z In addition to claiming "consequential and incidental" damages of more than $10 million, Brand Sense is seeking punitive damages "based on the wanton, willful and oppressive nature" of the Spears' conduct. Firm says Britney Spears' perfume dealings stink 2011-03-31T01:26:07Z I wonder whether the fear of what they'd risk if they were ever to fall out feels oppressive – like the golden handcuffs of being married to a millionaire? Ant and Dec: just the two of us 2013-02-23T09:00:00Z The remake’s oppressive music blares as you tear apart demons limb by limb, all while creating some of the funniest moments from video games in 2016. WATCH: 2016 proved that gaming isn’t just for gamers — here are the 10 best games this year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Both paintings were done in or around the brief period when Florence had expelled the oppressive Medici regime and declared itself a republic. Review: A Renaissance Painter, Andrea del Sarto, Striving for Perfection 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Wrapping paper is one of the most oppressive inventions in human history. So farewell 2011, a year of Liberal lemmings and robotic dancing 2011-01-02T00:03:07Z Some conservative commentators have harshly criticized the museum’s preview exhibition, blasting it as a Marxist portrayal that paints Latinos as victims of an oppressive United States. Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Faces Political Winds Before a Brick Is Laid 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z As for those who don’t—their films used to seem merely adequate and mediocre; now they seem oppressive, reactionary, and destructive. The Best Movies of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Some Bulgarians are less fond, and believe it should be demolished, arguing that it represents a painful legacy of an oppressive regime that should not be glorified after killing tens of thousands. Bulgaria's crumbling Buzludzha Monument draws call for a rescue 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Soon the oppressive August heat lifted, and I welcomed the relative cool of September. Modern Love: For the Jobless, Relationships Are Different 2010-04-30T17:53:00Z Both beautiful and oppressive, the bleakness of the landscape in winter suggests something uncanny in the air, as if we were watching a horror film without ghouls. 'Ida,' by Pawel Pawlikowski: A Film Masterpiece 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z In this oppressive and disconcerting staging, the consistently enthralling action takes place below deck – in the pit. Billy Budd; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Idomeneo/ Queen of Spades – review 2012-06-23T23:05:37Z David writes about a young woman from a difficult and oppressive family who slowly and surely turned herself off. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z With the No-Thanks Amendment freeing up much of the 45 seconds allotted for acceptance speeches, political speechifying could become highly oppressive, possibly polarizing and certainly incoherent. No Thanks. Really, Oscar Winners, Skip That Part. 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z "But the interiors tend to be oppressive and heavyhearted. Here, an abundance of light carbonates the soul of the house." A Louisiana Home Channels Cape Dutch Style 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Attending the conference would enhance his professional career, as well as offer him his first-ever break from the oppressive tedium of life in the Islamic Republic. The Poet Who Was Turned Away 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Abrams’s latest idea, currently titled “Demimonde,” that is reportedly about “a world’s battle against a monstrous, oppressive force.” Perspective | TV needs a really great space saga. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ comes close, but the longing remains. 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Shot almost entirely in punishing close-ups, the scene might trigger oppressive claustrophobia in some viewers. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z “Sworn Virgin” alternates between this oppressive atmosphere and more lyrical present-day sequences. Review: ‘Sworn Virgin’ Concerns a Fading Custom in Albania 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z But many exiles viewed such trips as unforgivable betrayals that helped an oppressive government by pumping hard currency into its beleaguered economy. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z And in a country that can be oppressive in its devotion to the binary, Weigel's community has long had to fight just to be acknowledged at all. "They're tired of explaining their own bodies": Intersex folks counter right-wing hate and shaming 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z The independence leader was famously reluctant to embrace technology, which for him represented “all that is harmful and oppressive in modern civilization,” Professor Ramaswamy said. The Many Faces of Gandhi 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z And I was rescued from this dilemma by remembering that, about six years earlier, black women in the Boston area had written essays to the effect that white women were oppressive to work with. The Origins of 'Privilege' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z Feeling stifled by his American milieu’s oppressive propriety, Steward embraced a new creative outlet in the early 1950s. Dramatizing the Story of a Gay Mid-Century Tattoo Artist Who Was So Much More 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z “The cycle of oppressive language is one of the strongest themes of the film, if people can stay in the seat long enough, or think about it long enough to care.” ArtsBeat: Competing Narratives at SXSW 2012-03-13T21:55:21Z There was oppressive crime, a chaotic city government and a police department that was at a complete loss. Seda reunites with Simon for Season 2 of 'Treme' 2011-03-23T15:57:08Z Yoav becomes such an oppressive presence that it is difficult to empathize with him. ‘15 Years’ Review: On the Run From a Midlife Crisis 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The more oppressive aspect of the Cirque aesthetic is the heavy layering of surging music, whimsical costuming and florid exotica. | 'Zarkana': Radio City Is Transformed Into a Cirque Tent 2011-06-30T02:01:16Z Dore zeroes in on the oppressive conventions her subjects questioned and defied. 'She's Beautiful' gets the word out 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z “That allowed us get through some heavy-duty oppressive stuff.” Revealing Jack Whitten’s Secret Self 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Bobby’s death, Tsombikos decided, was a result of his struggle against an oppressive, grinding world that does not make room for eccentrics and subversives and people who are different. Growing older without growing up: Graffiti artist Borf 10 years later 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Joined by the pianists David Friend and Oliver Hagen, the ensemble also finds full-blooded drama in the Sextet, which contains within its five movements a world of expressions from impish charm to almost oppressive darkness. Bach, Reich, Bartok, Beethoven and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The experience left me restless and eager to return to the less oppressive air of life outdoors. Perspective | D.C. theater is taking cautious steps back to ‘live’ with plexiglass screens and plays on headphones 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z They complained that students’ schedules were being handed down to them by dictatorial, oppressive parents unconcerned with their well-being. Mediocrity is for white kids: Debates over Asians and the academic “ethnic divide” are about white entitlement, not oppressive immigrant parents 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z "There are values that are oppressive to women that are embedded in a culture, sometimes in a religion, and I don't think one can ignore that fact," he said. 'Half the Sky' tells pain, hope of exploited women 2012-09-29T19:01:04Z And though I found the pileup of metaphors oppressive, I have to admit they were eye-opening. Review: In ‘sandblasted,’ Seizing the Day. Also the Nose. 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z It’s fairly complex stuff, and occasionally a heavy hand gets the better of the kitchen and the summer sun turns oppressive. Restaurant Review: Santina in the Meatpacking District 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Granted, sexual guilt is no longer so oppressive. From the archive, 12 October 1967: Permissive society is first step in freedom struggle 2012-10-12T06:30:00Z There, he reveals, in its bright open spaces and tranquil streets, the negative weight of an oppressive past, the virtual amber of stifling tradition. “Monrovia, Indiana,” Reviewed: Frederick Wiseman’s Anguished Study of Small-Town America 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Without oppressive deadlines or creative constraints, Ms. Similu has been free to experiment with different clays, glazing processes and pottery techniques. Behind the Wheel in L.A., With a New Destination 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z In Maoist times, Monkey has even been proclaimed a Marxist revolutionary, intent on overturning the oppressive imperial order. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Not that things were better in the old days; in fact it was horribly oppressive. Beyond Good and Awful: Literary Value in the Age of the Amazon Review 2012-02-08T18:49:05Z An unseen, oppressive force — presumably some aspect of the government that has harassed Panahi’s father for more than a decade and tried to prevent him from making films — imposes its will on them. ‘Hit the Road’ Review: Wheels Within Wheels 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z I glanced up from my phone when a Maxell commercial from 1985 came on, then I watched it again, totally rapt, free of my oppressive reality for a tiny moment. In Vintage TV Ads, a Curious Fountain of Hope (and Cheese) 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z The point about the oppressive whiteness of beauty standards was overwhelmed by the odd visual spectacle — two women competing to get harassed the most. The Sex-Ed Queens of YouTube Don’t Need a Ph.D. 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The hijab for young girls is not only opposed by non-Muslim white feminists wanting to “save” young girls from an “oppressive religion” but it is also opposed by some Muslim women. Gap back-to-school “hijab ad” ignites social media 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z These markers insert new facts into the landscape, but it’s a landscape dominated by a more oppressive, hectoring history of racism. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Dowd, with eyes that look perpetually fresh from crying, creates an almost oppressive portrait of a loving but smothering woman who both dotes on her sons and drives them away. | 'Blood From a Stone': Discord Dished Up at Every Meal 2011-01-13T03:01:31Z The oppressive atmosphere is equally difficult to grasp. Saudade – by Katsuya Tomita 2012-11-20T16:57:36Z According to the publisher, the author accepted no advance and will donate a portion of royalties to nonprofits that focus on accountability and “standing up” for truth in oppressive countries. Anonymous Trump official writing ‘unprecedented’ inside take 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The Immigrant becomes a stifling opera of unhappiness, at an oppressive andante tempo, trudging onwards through its own heavy weather. Cannes 2013: The Immigrant 2013-05-24T11:28:37Z As with Fahrenheit 451, the utopian architecture becomes a harbinger of the oppressive future to come. Blown up – how cinema captured the dark heart of the swinging 60s 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z I find the book oppressive, not just because of the subject matter, but the heavyhandedness of the writing. Reading group: Is Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin too crude for comfort? 2013-03-20T09:22:00Z Surely life aboard a British naval ship was never quite so grim and oppressive as it appears in director David Alden's powerful but skewed new production, seen at its second performance Saturday night. A grim, ghostly 'Billy Budd' on British stage 2012-06-24T11:27:08Z The basic creed, that “honor can only be restored by the spilling of blood,” is the oppressive patriarchal target of Pollono’s freewheeling attack. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z It was a strong breach of the oppressive contract of niceness. How Civil Must America Be? 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z A Black woman returns to her North Carolina hometown to attend her best friend’s plantation wedding and is forced to confront the haunted, oppressive history of the land that she left behind. Newly Published, From Octogenarian Marathoners to a Haunted Southern Plantation Wedding 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z It doesn't take long for it to set up an examination of how capitalism supports oppressive systems, making life difficult for anyone trying to eke out a living independent of those structures. There's no hiding from it: The politics of "Andor" look a lot like the type troubling our world 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The expansiveness at times can be a little oppressive — we are still meeting new people with new problems late in the first act — but the play’s near-epic nature is integral to its strength. Review: David Rabe’s ‘Good for Otto’ Introduces a World of Pain 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z A cold Negroni on the porch sounds awfully enticing — until you open the door and are assaulted by a blast of muggy, oppressive air. Reclaim your outdoor space, even in the summer swelter, with these expert tips 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Fiennes found it “somewhat strange and ugly” to preach Gilead’s oppressive ideology in front of a memorial representing the “high ideals of American values.” The absurdity and dread of witnessing ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ filming in D.C. 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z At a moment when sundresses are all too ubiquitous, this combo provides a fresh way to beat the oppressive summer heat. | Tunics 2010-08-03T18:53:00Z Given the success of “Cloud Gate” — the city of Chicago claims it is the most popular tourist site in the Midwest — it can’t easily be recast as an oppressive urban vanity project. Perspective | One of the world’s greatest sculptors warns America about the NRA 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Over tooth-loosening bass and an oppressive steel drum, our narrator relates the lurid tale of her erratic husband, whom she discovers has been barking in their basement. 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Unlike the scorching, oppressive temperatures in January and February, the heat is gentle; you can sleep through an evening. What the months of the year mean to me 2010-12-17T08:30:00Z There is this oppressive feeling of the information age bearing down on Christmas legend, leaving no room for old fashioned escapism. Arthur Christmas: Santa Goes Corporate 2011-11-22T16:00:38Z His mother-in-law, enraged by his oppressive hold over her daughter, causes a magical mishap. Sitcoms that should and shouldn't be turned into Broadway musicals 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The people who live in the village of Glass are a sad lot, their lives suffused with a grayness that borders on oppressive. Words of Wisdom (and Wildness): Distinctive Story Collections 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Still, it’s not exactly theatrical, and eventually it becomes oppressive, though this might be intentional, too. Review: In ‘Running Away From the One With the Knife,’ a Suicide Pondered 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z If Showalter had kept the acoustic guitars and remained an intimate singer-songwriter for HEAL, the album would have been almost oppressive in tone, too overbearing in its emotional resonance. REVIEW: The Musical Reinvention of Strand of Oaks 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z And in connection to the Paris attacks, he asks why liberals refuse to condemn the oppressive fundamentalism connected to the version of Islam practiced by terrorists. Let’s listen to Bill Maher: On Paris, religion and race, Maher walks a fascinating and tricky line 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z What once seemed like bad behaviour that women were expected to bear has been revealed as oppressive, grotesque and often criminal. 'I felt I was being punished for pushing back': pregnancy and #MeToo 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z This would not instantly eliminate its oppressive structuring. "Y: The Last Man" presents a fascinating dystopia that probes the artifacts of our gendered world 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Isolated, insular and rooted in oppressive structures, this is a very specific academic setting perfect for fear. Academia is dark and full of terrors in “Master” 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z Given the artist’s fairly manageable output of about 600 artworks, she said, “it’s not an oppressive task” and she aims to personally see as many paintings as possible. For Fitz Henry Lane and Other 19th-Century Painters, Catalogues Raisonnés Go Digital 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z If the stone floor doesn’t kill, the oppressive overhead concrete structure almost undoubtedly will. Finding an Artful Way to Expand the Whitney 2010-04-12T22:26:00Z Even the idea that harassment rules are oppressive — instead of protective of the vulnerable — is itself a pointed worldview. The Far Right Has a New Digital Safe Space 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z For better or worse, sex and nudity are abundant and function as a kind of default respite from the oppressive brutality. 'Anarchy Parlor' is a dreadful piece of torture porn 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Yet other forms of outreach veer from the risible to the oppressive. Frederick Wiseman’s Relentless Museum Talk 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z That fact is contrary to what is a tired and oppressive narrative of perpetual and always assumed black foregiveness for white racist violence and other crimes against us. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z The bifurcated tale that pits life in an oppressive court versus life in the natural world is one of the more challenging of the Bard's comedies. 'As You Like It': Inconsistency slows this visit to the Forest of Arden 2012-06-08T20:27:04Z Staff members petitioned for the change, the institution said, in part because of the word’s “oppressive overtones.” MacDowell Names Chiwoniso Kaitano Its Next Executive Director 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z As amplification of both instruments increased throughout the program, the volume level edged toward oppressive. Daniel Bernard Roumain’s songs of protest at the National Gallery 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z The through-line of troubled kids stretched a little thin, the grim romance of the glowering skies became oppressive. For 'The Killing,' closure is less than thrilling 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Others came and went quickly, convinced that this recreation of a totalitarian state had morphed into something genuinely oppressive and dark. Inside Dau, the 'Stalinist Truman Show': 'I had absolute freedom – until the KGB grabbed me' 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Ms. Evans is sensitive to her subjects’ motivations, noting that women of different eras were tinkering for different reasons—intellectual challenge, wartime opportunity, financial independence, freedom from an oppressive reality. ‘Broad Band’ Review: Mothers of Invention 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z “Despite all the oppressive regimes, music will live on.” An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z I fear such a movement will instead attract narcissists who want to assert their individual wills against what they see as a monolithic, oppressive status quo, using the oppressed as tools for that end. ‘A Foreign Policy for the Left’ Review: Can There Be a ‘Decent’ Left? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z This small, single-story brick building offered a precious brief escape from the oppressive oversight of his mistress. In (and around) Fredericksburg, Va., walking the steps of a slave’s Trail to Freedom 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z There used to be something oppressive about Lincoln Center. Critic?s Notebook: A Citadel of Culture Shows a Friendlier Face 2010-12-31T22:50:05Z Khaled’s not telling a story about them so much as tapping, obliquely, into an oppressive national mood and purportedly liberating Hassane from it. ‘Martyr’ Review: Tight Bonds and Isolation in Beirut 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z "Ultimately, this results from the very oppressive systems which we are trying to dismantle. Our lived realities, struggles and traumas are not games, nor competitions for the consumerist gaze." "The Activist" implosion: How a reality show working for greater good became a capitalist nightmare 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z The present tense, used throughout this strand of the novel, signals continuity but also oppressive stagnation. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 1: Bleak House 2012-02-07T09:59:35Z Is there something about – you have to be in this state to find that oppressive being out there? Q&A: Harlan Ellison 2013-06-14T15:00:16Z Mercer was heavily influenced by Laing's theories, and employed the psychologist as a consultant on his 1967 drama Two Minds, which related a young woman's schizophrenia to her oppressive family background. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z There is a consistent atmosphere of oppressive, hallucinatory evil, an anxious undercurrent. 'It's OK to embarrass yourself' ? Nick Cave and the return of Grinderman 2010-09-02T22:00:00Z Both, however, stand as harsh political allegories of oppressive human frameworks. Apocalypse bow-wow: the new breed of arthouse animal horror 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z But its message about the oppressive present — a voice repeats the word “repeat” — is itself oppressive, and obvious. Review: Watching Paul Taylor’s Road Not Taken (and Lessons Learned) 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Again, Stephanie checks in with each new beat of the story to guide the viewer with her commentary, an oppressive method of rigid structuring. Press stop: why Hollywood needs to quit relying on the vlogger 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z We pushed and pulled and lugged our oppressive, gear-laden bikes over nearly every inch of ground, cursing and sputtering. This North Dakota Bike Trail Is Stunning. Just Hope You Survive It. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z But such distinctions — and even the appreciation of particular performances or feats of filmmaking — distract attention from the oppressive, stultifying weight of the system as a whole. A Summer Without Superheroes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The German motives are gathered together at the Hirshhorn in a room that becomes powerful and oppressive. Review | Is he or isn’t he an abstract painter? Two museums differ. 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The experience is by turns bewildering, charming and oppressive. Alternative Guide to the Universe – review 2013-06-15T23:05:34Z But four years after this she was finding Wagner oppressive: “My eyes are bruised, my ears dulled, my brain a mere pudding of pulp.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The composition visualizes a fundamental quandary: What do you do if you believe that silence is oppressive, but you’re not entirely sure what to say? What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z While the grinding boredom of grunt life feels realistic, sharing the slow passing of time with the soldiers places a burden on the audience, as we begin to feel the oppressive tedium ourselves. Review: ‘Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, America, Kuwait,’ as Grim as It Is Cryptic 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z In an interview with the Windy City Times, Alex Martinez equated Israel with El Salvador and Nicaragua in terms of oppressive regimes. The Sound of Silence: what it means to be LGBTQ and a Zionist in today’s America 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Berniece wants to keep it, understanding that the piano itself offers them another connection and liberation from their oppressive past. LaTanya Richardson Jackson on Directing ‘The Piano Lesson’ (and Her Husband) 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z In the first of many visual surprises, the movie switches modes, to stop-motion animation, as Alice recounts an oppressive 1950s childhood in Switzerland. ‘Skies of Lebanon’ Review: A Beautiful Life, for a While 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In the eyes of his critics in the British film industry, Davis's oppressive personality helped strangle the industry at a time when it could have done with powerful friends. Dinah Sheridan 2012-11-25T19:52:38Z Some of these works explore women’s lives mindful of particular historical contexts, acknowledging their achievements within the often oppressive systems of their times. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z The project also highlights the negative potential of the app in the hands of oppressive regimes. In Venice, Center of Cruising, a Biennale Show About Hooking Up 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z So why talk about oppressive life elsewhere when it’s also right here. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Tom Holland: "I've spent last x years working on gods that people still believe in, and it's been a bit oppressive." Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z Book one follows a young Pearl, Eden, who "loathes her white skin and accepts the oppressive opinion that it is ugly, even worthless". Revealing Eden author needs some Good Black Friends 2012-08-27T13:00:01Z Within a single painting, a white expanse like a wall may be offset by a dark expanse, rendering the image at once spacious and oppressive. Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81 2010-05-01T04:48:00Z For years, this island country was considered oppressive and humorless. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z It was not only that Obama was telegenic and charismatic, but that his rhetoric soared in service to recapturing the American dream from the clutches of an oppressive nightmare. Barack Obama reclaimed patriotism for the left: How his 2004 DNC speech made a hopeful, inclusive America a core liberal value 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z “Usually we see slave narratives about how horrible it was and how oppressive white people were, but not the collective trauma that we all inherit,” he said. A Playwright Who Won’t Let Anyone Off the Hook 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z The student uprisings in 1968 against a patriarchal and oppressive society quickly transformed into a worker revolt and riot. To fight the status quo, the activists of 1968 harnessed the power of fashion 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z But as the family, led by Danny Glover’s cautiously wise patriarch, reveals its own fault lines — and Tully marks his territory by spraying like an unneutered tomcat — the atmosphere becomes increasingly oppressive. ‘Supremacy,’ With Danny Glover 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Suresh’s “Canes of Wrath,” a dark room filled with representations of slaughtered peacocks, clattering canes and whirling brooms designed to evoke the oppressive tactics of India’s Hindu extremists. In India, Building Bridges Between Life and Art 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z “Banned in Burma: Painting Under Censorship” at the Hong King Visual Arts Center shows the work of 20 artists, including Ms. Khine, who risked creating their art under an oppressive regime. New Freedom for Myanmar’s Artists 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z And thanks to the book’s success, it is also a lesson that Sweden, whose colonization of the Sámi has been long and oppressive, may slowly be learning. Her Culture Was Suppressed for Centuries. Now It Powers Her Best Seller. 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Willy is white; Troy is an African-American, enraged at an oppressive system that essentially barred blacks from competing in major league sports until the 1940s and ’50s. August Wilson and the long awaited triumph of “Fences” 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Rather than talking about individual interactions within discriminatory settings, I decided to focus on an oppressive society at the macro scale and what that society does to individuals. N. K. Jemisin on Diversity in Science Fiction and Inspiration From Dreams 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z And even “Captain Marvel” baldly championed Carol Danvers as the poster-ready “nevertheless, she persisted” female hero, who broke free from the oppressive men who were tamping down her abilities. What ‘WandaVision’ Gets Right (and Wrong) About Female Superheroes 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z The heat and way of life were oppressive. Experience: I was abandoned by my cult 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He expressed his obsessions with cities, public transportation, books and power of all kinds in richly worked, sometimes oppressive fusions of drawing, collage and painting. ‘Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic’ and ‘Ralph Fasanella: Lest We Forget’ 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The influence of Judson on current dance artists is as inspirational as it is oppressive. Beyond Judson Dance, Shows at MoMA and Danspace 2012-12-23T08:20:05Z The show is wordless, with a loud and oppressive soundtrack of music and live sound, but during the development process Hotel Modern explored presenting the work with text, taken from letters by extermination camp management. Kamp: 'Performing this work does get to you' 2013-03-15T06:54:57Z He went from being some cool mad scientist who was unfairly jailed by an oppressive system to a real human being in my mind. The life of Wilhelm Reich as drawn by Elijah Brubaker 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z It is my belief that all the people should have access to these skills, to be able to repel these oppressive forces. ‘Power Must Be Taken’: Excerpts From ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Harry said that, through his relationship with Meghan, he realized that he and his family were all trapped inside an oppressive system. 5 key points from Harry and Meghan’s explosive TV interview 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Delacroix, like many in his circle, supported the Greeks in their struggle against the oppressive Ottoman Empire. Eugène Delacroix at the Met: A 19th-century retrospective that evokes today’s turmoil 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Those whose childhoods were burdensome seemed to regard their baby’s needs as oppressive and were less likely to put aside their own needs to care for their kids. Kids With Too Many Duties Grow Up to Be Reluctant Parents 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z As threatening and oppressive as the world of Gilead is, the series has an energetic stamina about it that prevents the story from sinking under the weight of despondency. “The Handmaid’s Tale”: A dystopian tale of female subjugation that hits close to home 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z An oppressive sense of ruin blankets the film, its repeated adoption of Erik’s gaze suggesting the projection of an ongoing mental collapse. ‘The Humans’ Review: Reasons (Not) to Be Cheerful 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Reading became a means of escape, and then a means of identifying and affirming who I was in the face of the prison’s oppressive environment. Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z During the Roman summer, oppressive heat waves are common, leaving captive tourists to bake in museum halls lacking air conditioning or roast on cobblestone streets. In Transit: Cooling Dips for the Roman Summer 2011-07-31T10:00:09Z Summer temperatures well above 100 degrees can be dangerously oppressive. A father-son road trip in Death Valley: One muscle car, one teenager and the American West 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z "It's an oppressive system that exists within hospitality — and it's existed for way too long — but it still penetrates our industry to this day," Aviles said. "Still taboo": Eating disorders are a silent epidemic in professional kitchens 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z No, you don’t — Goliath is clearly there to demonstrate oppressive power, isn’t he?” Russell Brand absolutely demolishes Fox News over Ferguson coverage 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Matt and I wanted to put the camera so close to the characters that the audience understands the camera is an oppressive force. "It Lives Inside" director on his psychological monster and "counterintuitive" approach to suspense 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z This shuttered atmosphere can be oppressive, but Mr. Clark counters his gloomy setup with deft performances, gentle jokes and a genuine empathy for his broken characters. Review: In ‘Little Sister,’ an Aspiring Nun With a Love of Goth Visits Her Troubled Family 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The oppressive weight of worry simply disappeared, and her job was half done. Learning 'Lear': Feeling the Pain 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Prison is wrong and oppressive in these films, even when it is used against people who aren’t law-abiding. Mad Max: Fury Road is less radical than its B-movie influences 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Born in China in the late 19th century, Qiu Jin rebelled against the oppressive patriarchal society in which she found herself. At a Rare Book Fair, the Prices Are Steep but the Lore Is Free 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Occasionally, I want something that feels a little fresher, especially if the temperatures inside and outside of my kitchen are bordering on oppressive. A 3-ingredient recipe for the butteriest no-cook tomato sauce ever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The film’s self-seriousness is as oppressive as its setting’s monotonous fog. ‘Antlers’ Review: Buck Wild 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z But I’m also bummed at anything that perpetuates the notion that feminism secretly wants to be as mean, violent and oppressive as the worst elements of misogyny. Twitter’s latest unfunny trend: #killallmen 2013-05-07T16:32:00Z And those individuals often engage in the same oppressive behaviors as White policemen did in that era. Director of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ says the Oscar-nominated film is ‘about the dangers of being apolitical’ 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z German's output was typically starkly shot and marked in its emphasis on mood and oppressive atmosphere over traditional linear narrative. Acclaimed Russian film director Alexei German dies 2013-02-21T14:35:11Z It is for her daughter to fill in those gaps for us, with accounts of the kind of numbing, oppressive and outright abusive existence that so many people accept as a life sentence. ‘Lucy Barton’ Review: Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Pavlensky said on Sunday he considered the Partizans worthy of the prize because they were opposing oppressive rule in Russia. Russian artist gives his Havel prize to group accused of killing police 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z While the sort of checklist you carry in Venice or Berlin can be thrilling, it can also be oppressive, a gilded prison of obligations. How I Fell for Lisbon 2012-05-25T20:23:37Z The scale and beauty of the landscape of southern Utah is so astonishing as to be almost oppressive, the way Renaissance paintings become too much to bear when visiting Florence. T Magazine: Boulder Dash 2011-11-18T15:30:38Z So “Liberty Theater” captures the color line’s psychic work, its oppressive potential to frame and dictate how we see. Rosalind Fox Solomon’s Color Line 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z To them, she is a sex-positive queer rebel, the kind of cultural figure whose performances gesture toward liberation from oppressive, retrograde politics. Tokischa, Latin Music’s Newest Rebel, Isn’t Holding Back 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Is it possible to glamorize oppressive, exploitative work while also offering a critique of it? Chick flick TV 2011-09-27T22:23:04Z A fugitive and a thief join forces to overthrow the oppressive Lord Ruler. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The four-part Netflix documentary “Daughters of Destiny” is a celebration of a pioneering school for the children of Dalits, members of the lowest group in the oppressive caste system that still shapes Indian society. Review: ‘Daughters of Destiny’ on Netflix Explores Caste Struggles in India 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z “I think it’s very sad that, in our quest for our own freedoms, we are so OK to be so oppressive to others.” Beverley Ditsie: the South African woman who helped liberate lesbians everywhere 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Some attribute the protests to the harsh and oppressive police presence. ‘Eat the Buddha’ Reports From the ‘World Capital of Self-Immolations’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z In “Angels,” he is a demon of right-wing homophobia and hypocrisy; even as he’s dying from AIDS, he continues to push an oppressive agenda. London calling: 'Angels in America' as fresh as ever at the National Theatre 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z But don’t confuse this with an oppressive teen weepy tinged gray. ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ Review: Amid Grief, Blossoms of Joy 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z That’s the wrong answer, but, as Deen’s antebellum fantasy shows, you also can’t just assume that nostalgia for the culture of an oppressive time can be neatly separated from the actual oppression. Less Than Accidental Racist: Why Paula Deen’s Comments Insult Her Fans Too 2013-06-20T17:10:41Z In Exordium, the first of several planned episodes of this crowd-funded adventure, the player is not sneaking; Hope, the woman who is trying to escape an oppressive totalitarian state, is. Video Games: Video Games — The Room Two, Nidhogg, République and Cut the Rope 2 2014-01-21T22:37:15Z The Prague Spring, which began in January 1968, was period of political liberalization from the Soviet Union’s oppressive domination. New Wave Czech films this weekend at the Getty 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z Chicago’s police superintendent acknowledged that his officers walked a “very fine line between maintaining order and becoming oppressive.” A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z “The song ‘Higher’ is about equality and acceptance, and the video is set in a world where a society lives under the watchful eye of an oppressive force,” the band says. Watch the Moving Video for Kate Boy's Electro-Pop Equality Anthem 'Higher' 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The next year, Perón won the Presidential election, and he soon established an oppressive, isolationist regime. César Aira’s Infinite Footnote to Borges 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Now, for me, the most onerous part of fatherhood has always been the oppressive obligation to lead by example. 'I've been good and bad, caring but useless': Tim Dowling on two decades of fatherhood 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The irony was always there and is central to Polsky’s film: a rigid, oppressive system, at both national and team levels, created the freest, most expressive hockey there ever was. Cold War Puck: The Beauties of Russian Hockey 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z “William and Henry Walters participated in creating, promoting, and perpetuating oppressive social, economic, and political structures with legacies that continue to create inequity and inequality today,” according to the museum’s account. In Baltimore, the Walters Art Museum confronts the Confederate history of its founders 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z By their oppressive rulers, or violent neighbors, or capricious gods. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z There is a final handover of power to the dead man, and still his influence is not felt as oppressive. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z What’s frustrating is that there are all of these oppressive laws going into effect, and you don’t know what to do. “It’s really terrifying”: Lizz Winstead on stealth antiabortion laws and fighting politicians in “their last grasp of hanging on to unearned power” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z “I still believe that polygamy is oppressive to women,” said Mormon feminist Lindsay Hansen Park, but she supports the bill. Polygamy is about to be decriminalised in Utah. Is it good news for women? 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Willa and Justin exist in their own oppressive bubble of loss and dread, which imbues the narrative with a hopeless claustrophobia, like two captives who have given up looking for escape. When the Family Falls Apart 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Though the harsh language begins to feel oppressive, it apparently isn’t gratuitous. Theater Review: ‘Satchmo at the Waldorf,’ at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven 2012-10-17T21:47:00Z But I found so many other sculptures at Storm King triumphal and oppressive. Perspective | Sculpture parks are a great way to see art during a pandemic. Here’s why some are better than others. 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z As an Israeli occupier who enjoys the fruits of the occupation, Tsemel explains, she has no right to tell Palestinians how to struggle against their oppressive circumstances, even if their acts include premeditated bloodshed. “Advocate” Documents the Battles of an Israeli Activist 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z They would not be convinced by the thought that the cliches of rock and its sentimental support system now form the oppressive orthodoxy. The Rolling Stones will reign supreme until there is a new counterculture 2013-03-31T00:06:28Z She denounces societal norms that felt compromising, religious standards that felt suffocating and gender ideals that felt oppressive. Laura Jean Anderson was raised Mormon, but found her identity through music 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z He says her infamous meat dress is a reference to "the consistent linking in the oppressive imaginary of the patriarchy of the female body and meat, of animality and the feminine." New York Post fooled by Lady Gaga, Slavoj Zizek hoax 2011-06-22T18:23:00Z So thickly is this dysfunctional dynamic troweled on to the opening episodes that it not only feels fake, but oppressive. Flesh and Bone: great dancing, shame about the plot 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z |
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