| 单词 | oppressiveness |
| 例句 | Perhaps his presence gave the evening its peculiar quality of oppressiveness--it stands out in my memory from Gatsby's other parties that summer. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z You can only be in southern Italy for so long before the subject comes up — the oppressiveness that hangs over everything like a low cloud cover that never burns off. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z All the pictures here occur in a domestic setting, and their action knocks against the oppressiveness of their interior walls. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Many critics savaged it, but to women who were bristling at subjugation, double standards and the innate oppressiveness of a patriarchal society, the work was a significant breakthrough. Myrna Lamb, Feminist Playwright in an Unwelcoming Era, Dies at 87 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Do you think you became a funny child as a release from that kind of oppressiveness?I think it was more a release from being shy, or lacking confidence. Sharon Horgan: 'There is a black streak in everything I've done' 2012-12-16T00:05:12Z “The Mars Room,” on the other hand, chafes against the slowness and sameness of time and the oppressiveness of a system that in the name of “justice” dooms our poorest citizens to lives of incarceration. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers a Blackly Comic Take on Prison Life 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z And herein lies the oppressiveness of institutionalized irony, the too-successful rebel: the ability to interdict the question without attending to its subject is, when exercised, tyranny. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z Until one day, you find yourself in full-blown pain, oppressiveness, and absurdity. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The potential oppressiveness of what many people consider to be ideal is something that Misty Copeland most likely considered before becoming the first African-American female principal dancer at American Ballet Theater two years ago. Misty Copeland’s Down-to-Earth Debuts in ‘Don Quixote’ and ‘Giselle’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The parable Mitchell constructs actually does have broader philosophical underpinnings: It seems intended to evoke the oppressiveness of economic hierarchies. Review | ‘Hadestown’ ushers Broadway back to the Kennedy Center in style 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z But while you see the bondage, oppressiveness and constant threat of violence, you seldom feel them in any powerful way. ‘Kindred’ Review: Octavia Butler Comes to the Screen 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z More substantively, Palestinian critics observe that “Fauda” shrinks from fully conveying the oppressiveness of the Israeli occupation. ‘Fauda,’ an Israeli TV Hit, Lets Viewers Escape — Into the Conflict 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z But the oppressiveness of the music and the over-intensity of the staging never allow you to laugh at, and therefore enjoy, the ludicrousness of the story. Review: ‘King Kong’ Is the Mess That Roared 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z When I was there, a thriller was being filmed in the museum, and it added to the oppressiveness to be chased from room to room by the film crew who needed one gallery, then another. Chasing Spirits: Mexico City’s House Museums 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z We’ve all read and heard disturbing accounts of such measures’ ubiquity and oppressiveness on campus after campus, their students depicted as demanding them en masse and administrators as rushing to establish them. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z With the sort of snug tailoring that demands industrial-strength undergarments, the clothes seem at first glance like a direct reflection of the punctiliousness, even the oppressiveness, of the era. Mad Men' shares a lesson on beauty 2010-07-25T23:48:00Z It’s a space, says Silton, “that has this sense of oppressiveness inside.” Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Throughout the piece, Ms. Harper switched between making fun of pageant behavior and commenting on its oppressiveness. Dance Review: Francesca Harper’s ‘Art Prototype 2013’ Mocks Beauty Shows 2013-08-18T21:57:41Z And let’s not forget the most fashion-forward prison outfits in film history, which combine the precious charm of Wes Anderson with the oppressiveness of a penal system. Why “Paddington 2″ deserves Oscar nominations in at least five categories 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z These individuals, sometimes disguising themselves as refugees, are determined to spread their country’s ideology and its attendant oppressiveness. Review: ‘This Can’t Happen Here,’ the Film Ingmar Bergman Tried to Bury 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z But when you look at what he actually says, he talks about the “oppressiveness of institutionalized irony.” What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z McDermott’s writing is often called “gemlike,” but that speaks to pressure as much as prettiness, as Tricia navigates war, marital strife and the increasing oppressiveness of the crowd of military wives that surrounds her. 30 books we can't wait to read this fall 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z “Close” is about a lot of things — the joy of friendship, the heartache of separation and the oppressiveness of masculine stereotypes — but what it’s mostly about is the nature of its characters’ silence. Review: Bring tissues to the Oscar-nominated ‘Close,’ but also a little skepticism 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z That’s likely intentional, since the paintings are so attuned to the oppressiveness of interior spaces. Review | In the galleries: Big messages conveyed in close quarters 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z The presence of tens of thousands of police and National Guard troops, after the riot at the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob two weeks ago, created a feeling of oppressiveness during the otherwise celebratory occasion. At the White House, an impersonal ‘transfer of families’ as the Trumps leave town 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z The symbolism around lack of identity is obvious to the point of oppressiveness: clouds of smoke, hosts of theater costumes in Ella’s garret. Review: The ‘Great Gatsby’ copyright bonanza stumbles out of the gate with ‘Nick’ 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z True said the high court’s ruling didn’t resolve other issues, which he said include “the over-breadth and oppressiveness of the subpoena and the political motives” of Bevin’s administration in issuing the subpoena. Court rules finance secretary has broad investigative powers 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Our own intelligence about the oppressiveness of the kind of society which would like to forget us along with other historical ‘mistakes’ should give black people a unique force in effecting change in America. Opinion | The End of Black Politics 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z “Tall poppy syndrome” is perhaps the closest concept in American vernacular, although it doesn’t do the oppressiveness of Scandinavia’s egalitarian milieu justice. AOC's symbolic attack on the legitimacy of wealth accumulation has no practical effect 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z But people also seemed more afraid to speak to a journalist than before, and mingled with the oppressiveness, there was an aggrieved nationalism in the air. Opinion | So, I Asked People in Saudi Arabia About Their Mad, Murderous Crown Prince 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z Expectations edge toward oppressiveness when the fulfillment of idealized retirements depends on the consumption of costly leisure goods and experiences, or on the self-conscious selection of activities for their status value. In Defense of the Not-So-Busy Retirement 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z It is an oppressiveness that spreads its edicts further and further into the crevices of everyday life. Trump, Clinton and the Culture of Deference 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z But, despite the oppressiveness of the “hysteria” panic – and the odd sexual split consciousness of Victorians – women seemed to pick up on what the devices were really doing. Orgasmic design: how vibrators have become ambitious tech products 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The oppressiveness of their clothes and their manners held them back. 'Suffragette' costume designer says the film called for subtlety, not a fashion showcase 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z I never felt any of the oppressiveness of racism. Oprah Winfrey: my lunch with Harper Lee 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z If summer seemed free of the season’s usual oppressiveness in the District, and was surprisingly devoid of both searing heat and wet-blanket humidity, the western parts of the area were even more so. Dog days of summer left with a whimper in July For people who escaped Hurricane Sandy relatively unscathed, the year may be remembered most for the sheer breadth and oppressiveness of the summer heat wave. 2012 Was Hottest Year Ever in U.S. 2013-01-08T18:35:06Z She even challenged her terrors by going into that bedroom behind and contending with its oppressiveness. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z It was the duty of China to defend the oppressed among the nations, and to smite down the Great Powers in their oppressiveness. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z The air would have been cleared of its oppressiveness, for he would have known himself nearer to her level. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The oppressiveness seemed to spring from something besides the mere temperature. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z But once we recognise its silence as being of the nature of what we possess in ourselves, the shadow of monotony and oppressiveness is lifted. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z To the representations of the German and French Bishops against the oppressiveness and injustice to the minority of the order of business, the Pope has not seen fit to make any reply. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z It was too hot to talk and the oppressiveness of the atmosphere gave them an uneasy feeling. The Automobile Girls Along the Hudson Fighting Fire in Sleepy Hollow 2011-09-18T02:00:23.270Z The stillness and oppressiveness of the atmosphere finally made an impression on his mind. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z Our familiarity with reflections on the oppressiveness of the Soviet era turns this stifling landscape into apt metaphor. Theater review: A recharged ?Uncle Vanya? at Kennedy Center 2011-08-07T21:49:00Z It was possible that the strange oppressiveness in the atmosphere affected him, to the exaggeration of that which was on his mind, to wit the very disagreeable burden of the news he had just received. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z Always a shy and rather lonely man, his wealth seemed to have driven him, by its very oppressiveness, to the society of his humble fellows for relief. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Jim felt the oppressiveness, and in a subtle way it rested upon his mood as something sinister. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z The oppressiveness of the room almost stifled him. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Proudhon frees this man from his oppressor and his oppressiveness by creating a condition of equality through the destruction of property and of government. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z That dreamy sense of unreality had clung to her with painful oppressiveness and with many a vague longing. Success and How He Won It 2011-01-23T03:00:12.077Z The Colonel felt the dismal and bleak oppressiveness of a picture blotted from visual record by the reeking blackness of a winter dawn. The Tempering The sadness of which our friend speaks is caused by the lightness, not the oppressiveness, of our duty. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. But there was an oppressiveness in the atmosphere which portended a change, and ever and anon came a low boom of thunder. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Such taxation was almost without precedent in England, and certainly added to Cromwell’s unpopularity, already very great, owing to the oppressiveness of his religious policy with regard to the religious houses and his personal harshness. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History But, in an interview with Bismarck at Ferrières, on September 19, he realized the oppressiveness of the German demands. A History of the Third French Republic He got the feeling of being expected to contribute to the oppressiveness of the occasion. Fidelity A Novel The oppressiveness of the day had decidedly ruffled the atmosphere of Happy House. Happy House A thunderstorm, passing quickly over, and merely sprinkling the trees and bushes with a few drops of Heaven's balsam, had relieved the sultry oppressiveness of the day. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II The air is sultry almost to oppressiveness, and the breath of the roses that have twined themselves around the railings of the balcony renders the calm night full of sweetest fragrance. Rossmoyne The day was warm and sunshiny, but the air was so clear and pure that the oppressiveness was much less than would have been the case in a more northern latitude. Through Apache Lands There was an oppressiveness in the atmosphere to Brian; everything spoke to him of death and decay in that strange, old city, which might veritably be called a city of the dead. Under False Pretences A Novel The Revolution, which reduced the royal prerogative, removed the oppressiveness of the royal supremacy. The History of Freedom They all felt their breasts oppressed; the presence of the stranger weighed upon them like the sultry oppressiveness which precedes a thunderstorm. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Woolfolk was aware of an increasing tension in the other, that gained a peculiar oppressiveness from the lack of any corresponding outward expression. Wild Oranges The dew-point is a matter of really vital consequence in the question of the oppressiveness of the atmosphere or its reverse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" The kind of emotion which this examination, joined to the oppressiveness of the air, occasioned, was choking the baron. A Romance of the West Indies The midsummer sun was now high in the heavens, with just a little stir in the air to temper its warmth and oppressiveness. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution It was not exactly the cloudiness of rain; it was rather that of heat and oppressiveness, and it had in it a certain boding quality that weighed heavily upon the spirits of Adam Colfax. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" He too had felt the oppressiveness of a speechless march. Gold Out of Celebes In its times of least oppressiveness it was an enormity, if he were innocent. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography He had no doubt of the oppressiveness of Republican rule, and the need of shaking it off by vigorous measures. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement The servant girls and gossips had fugitive peeps at me through the cracks of my door, and I felt for the first time all the oppressiveness of greatness. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War They are loyal and devout, true to their word, courageous and enduring; though the paludier is miserably poor, from the oppressiveness of the salt-tax, he never complains. Brittany & Its Byways In another hour, the sultry oppressiveness steadily increasing and the stark calm still continuing, the barometer had fallen to 29.70. A Son Of The Sun The stagnant air was saturated to oppressiveness with a thousand mingled perfumes; and not a sound of any kind broke in upon the death-like stillness of the scene. The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron The tediousness, and oppressiveness, and vain longing for action, would press down on us closer and closer. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure The oppressiveness of people who hold a great many things sacred, and cannot bear that they should be jested about, is very great. Joyous Gard On the 5th of March the whole House of Commons, with the Speaker at their head, had waited on the King at York Place and expatiated for three hours on the oppressiveness of clerical jurisdiction. Henry VIII. In the distance Tad saw the comforting flicker of the camp-fire, about which the cowmen were sleeping undisturbed by the oppressiveness of the night. The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains It was a blessed relief from the terrible oppressiveness of the foul atmosphere of the boat. Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder But no one would dream of denying the oppressiveness of the past. The Buried Temple Then it was that Bradby began to feel absolutely deserted, and the queer oppressiveness of the place descended on him as one shuts down the lid of a box. The Lost Valley They stop aghast at Jinny and the oppressiveness of the gas in the room. The Girl with the Green Eyes A Play in Four Acts Now the lad noticed that there was an oppressiveness about the air that had not been present before. The Pony Rider Boys in Texas Or, The Veiled Riddle of the Plains That earthquakes are preceded sometimes by a peculiar haziness and oppressiveness, similar to that which sometimes precedes a storm, is a current opinion in volcanic countries. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence There was a curious oppressiveness in the air, too, and more than one found difficulty in breathing. The Moving Picture Girls at Sea or, A Pictured Shipwreck That Became Real And, besides, the British soldier's fatalism, that death will come when it will come, prevented for long any gloom or oppressiveness in the atmosphere that might have been engendered by the time-old superstition. S.O.S. Stand to! No sterner picture of an utterly rotten social state was ever drawn than this book gives of the luxury, licentiousness, and oppressiveness of the ruling classes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII There was a singular oppressiveness in the air which suggested that a thunderstorm was at hand. The Magician Oh! the oppressiveness of the hour, the minute, the second, on which the soul's destiny quivers, and this is that hour, that minute, that second! New Tabernacle Sermons "Ay, my liege, save that he complained of a strange oppressiveness, disinclining him for all exertion." The Vale of Cedars Of the comfort of others he was solicitous to the point of oppressiveness. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand Pungent odors floated up from the rain-trampled stubble of the hillsides, the air was cleared of its stifling oppressiveness, the first storm of the season was over. The Blood Red Dawn I cannot find another word than "oppressiveness" to describe the sensation wrought upon the audience. Without Dogma I reached Washington on public business during the heats of June, and, coming from northern latitudes, felt their oppressiveness severely. 27th. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers But everywhere was an oppressiveness, a gathering together of hate, that was spiritual rather than material—as tangible as the latter and far, far more menacing! The Moon Pool An indescribable oppressiveness had overtaken him with the near approach of the journey's end and the realities of life that lay there. The Woodlanders They writhed feverishly under the oppressiveness of an emotion thrust on them by cruel Nature's law—an emotion which they had neither expected nor desired. Tess of the d'Urbervilles These three words seemed to stand before my eyes traced upon the darkness; a lowering malignant cloud seemed hanging over me, and I felt its oppressiveness, and waited for it to break. The Torrents of Spring It was not to them the symbolic and picturesque thing that it is to us, but a real overhanging, intermittent oppressiveness, that must often have struck across their actions in a chilling and disastrous way. A Study of Hawthorne It is the rallying point of innumerable associations of young men of reactionary, aristocratic and clerical tendencies throughout the country, while to progressives it symbolizes the oppressiveness of the old régime. Youth and Egolatry Yet there was an oppressiveness about the tideless water and pestilential shore, and the white-hulled ships looked like deserted punished things, whose doom for ages was to be ceaseless sailing over these gloomy waters. The Englishwoman in America There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that seemed to bode something. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. The oppressiveness of life begins with the child. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough Noting the oppressiveness of the usual order of education through books and apparatus, he scorns all tradition, and cries, "Let the child learn direct from Nature!" Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam It had been threatening a thunder storm all evening and the increasing oppressiveness of the air made the young, aeronaut wakeful. The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure And the heat of the day, charged now with the oppressiveness of long-overdue thunder, completed her mood. The Coming of Bill As the night was passing, I felt its oppressiveness, I shuddered with the thought of what another day might bring forth; but deliverance it seems was not far away; it was even now at hand. Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear The slightly reduced gravitation gave them a sense of lightness and freedom which more than balanced the junglelike oppressiveness of the air. The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life The oppressiveness of the day was owing more to the hot wind than to the sun itself. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil The sky became darker, and there came a peculiar thickness and oppressiveness to the atmosphere. The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence Some slight oppressiveness was felt immediately before the rains, but speedily disappeared on their occurrence. Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland The moan of the wind in the spruce trees communicated itself to him with an eerie oppressiveness. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day The building was, in short, a recently-erected chapel of red brick, with pseudo-classic ornamentation, and the white regular joints of mortar could be seen streaking its surface in geometrical oppressiveness from top to bottom. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day The question whether Miss Aldclyffe were schemer or dupe was almost passed over by Cytherea, under the immediate oppressiveness of her despair in the sense that her position was irretrievable. Desperate Remedies There was a touch of weirdness to the scene, adding to the oppressiveness of the interview "I want to ask you a plain question," he began, in a strange voice. The Rise of David Levinsky Yet not a score of them serried along the bench could have outdone in oppressiveness Sir Charles Russell. Yet Again This oppressiveness, however, was broken by a far-distant cry, unlike any sound I had ever heard. The Last of the Plainsmen Seeing their boss, the sparrow-hawk, back in his place, flanked with supporters, and his gray eye indifferently upon them, the buccaroos grew polite to oppressiveness. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories She had flung herself down on entering, and succumbed to the unwonted oppressiveness that ever attends full-blown love. Desperate Remedies The campfire burned steadily, and there was a certain oppressiveness in the atmosphere. Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers, or, the Secret of Phantom Mountain But the mystery and oppressiveness vanished after the first few seconds of waking, when I identified the missing something as the wind. The Sea Wolf |
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