Sentences with word «oppressiveness»

The admission on the part of many homosexuals themselves that they have no interest in what they regard as the bourgeois oppressiveness of monogamy exposes the imposture of «same - sex marriage.»

But clearly, the oppressor does not help the oppressed merely by freeing himself through play; he must also work to change structures and to overcome the results of his former and continuing oppressiveness.

It's an indication of how much this film needed a bright break in all the grim oppressiveness that when Mary - Louise Parker shows up in a giddy cameo as a foul - mouthed boozer, the audience suddenly lit up with laughter.

It was a time when dictatorship was enacted, and people were living under fear, and we felt that the fear coming from the extreme oppressiveness could be a good match to create the psychological horror environment for our horror game.

Since the curtain walls don't touch the ground, the space feels as if it were on the verge of collapse, infusing the experience with a crushing oppressiveness.

Leaving tolerance and autonomy - promotion out of the mix of techniques that parents use is to run the risk, as Grolnick (2003) points out, that parental control can become parental oppressiveness.

In interior design terms, black can create a sense of solidity and security at one end of the spectrum, and oppressiveness at the other, so deploy it carefully.

Rather, they are victims of the oppressiveness of this very maturity and godlessness; they must look to God to vindicate himself, to reveal himself powerfully as the liberating God of the exodus and resurrection.

Pullman's version of Christianity is a fairly common straw man: the oppressiveness of organized religion.

Despite all the determined efforts to maintain a triumphal optimism about the liberating possibilities of weight loss, the oppressiveness of fleshly disciplines may well prevail, as the command to love oneself, including the body, is contradicted and undermined by the directive to amend its defects and unceasingly refine its contours.

In a break from the typical pattern of ancient Near Eastern life, the Hebrews recognized that the oppressiveness of work needed to be periodically relieved.

There were, to be sure, many anti-Christian atheistic critics who were unconvinced by the efforts of theologians and continued to point out both the incredibility and the oppressiveness of God.

Much of this suspicion of symbols is very helpful, for it brings to our attention the childishness, escapism, resentfulness, and oppressiveness that have at times become attached to religious consciousness.

Solomon the wise became known for his oppressiveness, his policy of forced labor, his self - aggrandizement (I Kings 5:13).

It agrees about the oppressiveness of the early modern religion of radical transcendence that pictured God chiefly as lawgiver and judge.

These sensitive words of Jesus must constitute the basis of the church's response to women caught in the oppressiveness of prostitution.

It must be a daily practice, especially for those of us who are more susceptible to the oppressiveness of the world.

Gradually I began to sense the oppressiveness that the inmates must endure on a daily basis.

The film looks austere and serious, rather as if it had been shot inside a Frigidaire, and the oppressiveness of the images tends to strangle laughter, even at the most absurd excesses of Alvin Sargent's script.

There does, however, reach a point at which the viewer begins to grow impatient for something of substance to happen, as - no matter how fascinating the characters may be - the increasingly languid atmosphere slowly - but - surely begins to lend the proceedings a distinct air of oppressiveness.

As all good film performances should do, it shows, doesn't explain, and the difficult, contradictory personality of a painter ahead of his time who discovers the fickleness of public opinion, the oppressiveness of conventional responsibilities, and the curious nature of a man who sees things differently.

A drama simmering with tension, the film at times teeters on the edge of oppressiveness but Farhadi always manages to bring it home to its deeply reflective core.

Maren Ade's festival hit about a well - meaning prankster father who elbows his way back into his dour - faced daughter's life is anchored in the squirm of observational humour, with even farther - reaching comments on the decline of Europe and the oppressiveness of corporate culture.

The cramped rooms were expected, the oppressiveness appropriate, the intricate detail an ideal trade - off for the lack of long vistas.

As he later explained, «My war experience taught me about the oppressiveness of the power structure in its extreme form.

Presumably we move to the burbs to escape the oppressiveness of the crowds for a while and to be nearer the beach, ie to de-stress.

Those hot roofs amplify the oppressiveness of summer by radiating extra heat both by day and at night.

77 In determining the seriousness of the breach, the factors to be considered are such things as the oppressiveness of the search, Mr. C.'s expectation of privacy in the area searched, the existence of reasonable and probable grounds and the good faith of the police: R. v. Caslake, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 51 (S.C.C.) at paragraph 34.