Sentences with phrase «increasingly oppressive»

During its first years the college attracted and recruited as faculty many European refugees who were fleeing the increasingly oppressive atmosphere in academic and arts institutions during Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

His art and his teaching gave primacy to experience over theory, to discovery over ideology — perhaps unsurprising for a man who escaped an increasingly oppressive Nazi regime by immigrating to America in 1933.

Heavily affected by the death of friends and loved ones from AIDS, his work took on an increasingly oppressive and sinister feel as he rallied against homophobia and social injustice.

In «Cross,» cellist Celine, now staunchly single after a failed marriage, is taken aback when a homemade, increasingly oppressive memorial appears on her lawn just as she is trying to pull together a new quartet.

Their support becomes a godsend as Ginger's homelife become increasingly oppressive.

The graphic novel noir feel is becoming increasingly oppressive, and everyone is just so grim.

Exploding health care and pension costs, among other problems, are beyond the city's control but have an increasingly oppressive effect on municipal finances.

The third factor making marriage enrichment crucial is the epidemic of loneliness in our urbanized, mobile society — a loneliness that becomes increasingly oppressive in the mid-years.

In response, Sutcliffe wrote to the headmaster accusing the school of «increasingly oppressive» behaviour and of presuming him to be guilty of misconduct.

People might need things like Bitcoin in the future to escape their increasingly oppressive Governments that want to control and censor everything.

Not exact matches

We must understand this whole movement as an atoning process, a forward - moving process wherein a vacuous and nameless power of evil becomes increasingly manifest as the dead body of God or Satan; but it is precisely this epiphany of God as Satan which numbs the power of evil, and unveils every alien and oppressive other as a backward - moving regression into the now lifeless and hence ultimately powerless emptiness of the primordial sacrality of God.

The culture wars are increasingly driven by southern conservatives and as a non-southern, non-conservative (though from the south) I view the culture wars as increasingly dictatorial and oppressive.

Such standards are increasingly regarded as oppressive and thus in violation of human rights.

Increasingly, corporations are beginning to resemble oppressive governments in their attempts to control what we see, wear, and do.

As he grows up, he falls for local girl Mannina (Made), whose family doesn't approve, and gets increasingly involved in politics, working with the communist party to protect people's rights from both the oppressive government and the mafia.

There reaches a point, however, wherein Burke's garrulous modus operandi becomes flat - out oppressive in its relentlessness, with the eye - rollingly on - the - nose instances of dialogue exacerbated by an increasingly pronounced emphasis on superfluous exposition.

The energy and anti-authoritarianism of this moment was a source of power and inspiration for von Heyl, but the increasingly ironic and cynical attitudes of the Cologne group became oppressive and in 1996 she left for New York, where she has lived and worked ever since.