H. P. Lovecraft

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

American Novelist

Oliver Ellsworth

The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.

American Lawyer

Tyler Cowen

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.

American Economist

Jimmy Wales

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

American Businessman

Joko Beck

To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.

American Educator

Julian Barnes

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

English Writer

John Rhys-Davies

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

Welsh Actor

Walter Kaufmann

Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.

German Philosopher

Bob Menendez

Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

American Politician

James Hillman

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

American Psychologist

Use 'oppressive' to describe extreme discomfort due to weather, like heat or humidity.

Weather Context

It's often used when the environment's effects are almost tangible, as if you can feel the weight.

Sensory Effect

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe situations that feel overwhelmingly negative.

Not Always Literal

Emphasizes the misuse of power, often by leaders or authorities, causing suffering.

Power Misuse

Used to express collective discontent in a country or community under unfair control.

Public Angst

It conveys a strong negative emotional reaction to a lack of freedom.

Emotional Connotation

Use it to describe an environment or situation causing deep unhappiness or hopelessness.

Expressing Despair

Can refer to an internal feeling of being mentally or emotionally weighed down.

Mental State

Highlights the severity of a situation, suggesting it's more than just uncomfortable.

Amplifies Severity

 It seems that Generation Y is coming. Now, let me set another example. I'm meeting different people throughout the world, and they are, you know, academics, and professors, and doctors, and they will always talk conditions. They will "People power will work only if the regime is not too oppressive."

Srdja Popovic: How to...

 these victims with every purchase we make, and the injustice feels embedded in the products themselves. After all, what's wrong with a world in which a worker on an iPhone assembly line can't even afford to buy one? It's taken for granted that Chinese factories are oppressive,

Leslie T. Chang: The...

 My dad said it was called the Pantheon, a temple for all of the gods. It didn't look all that special from the outside, as I said, but when we walked inside, I was immediately struck by three First of all, it was pleasantly cool despite the oppressive heat outside.

Bran Ferren: To create...

 oppressive state after all I could gather as I liked I could rail against the government as I wanted nobody was going to black-bag me and disappear me but most importantly the Islamic University that I attended I met a young Islamic scholar who would challenge my

An inside look at...

 You look up, half-erased chalkboard, you can see that perfectly written cursive alphabet, the pull-down maps, you can hear, tick, tick, tick, ticking on the wall, that industrial clock. But most importantly, you can feel that oppressive fluorescent light,

3 ways to create a space...

 That is why I said it is very important to cover the stories of activists in the way that it helps mobilize people, not in the way that it helps deter their action and force even more their subjugation to the oppressive system.

Is your country at risk...

 western trained police soldiers aid workers community organizers female business owners and politicians girls and boys attending public schools young people who never lived under the taliban's oppressive rules

Portraits of Afghanistan...

 This step, for the anti-hero, is seldom a matter of brave, wise and heroic opposition. Maybe the anti-hero fights and succeeds in destroying the oppressive government, with a lot of impossible luck.

An anti-hero of one's...

 He was one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, forever changing the course of one of the world's largest countries. But was he a hero who toppled an oppressive tyranny

History vs. Vladimir...

 Allow me to start this talk with a question to everyone. You know that all over the world, people fight for their freedom, fight for their rights. Some battle oppressive governments.

Oppressive

Making you feel worried and uncomfortable.

Often appears as...

Using power in a cruel or unfair way.

Often appears as...

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Makes you feel very unhappy and anxious.

Often appears as...

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Sensory Effect

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