oppressiveness

But the wit is more than canceled out by the oppressiveness.

The room is full of still heat, weighing down on us with sticky oppressiveness.

His shoulders seemed bowed with a great weight and there was an oppressiveness in the very air about him.

Under the oppressiveness of a loss, the new power had been forged."

It offers protection against the oppressiveness of unions and corporations.

They thought that their work would bring out the oppressiveness and the emotion responses of the people affected by the wall.

Walker stood next to Quickening and felt the oppressiveness of the city close about him.

On Thursday, many residents spoke of what they saw as a creeping oppressiveness by the police.

The dark paneled walls and low ceiling added to the oppressiveness.

There was an oppressiveness, a weight, something clinging here.

The oppressiveness of interstellar space was telling on the emigrants.

The ennui, the oppressiveness, the burden and finally the shame of being American?

Was it the oppressiveness of obedience as we had been living it?

I didn't say anything for I thought it was the heat, the dreadful oppressiveness.

The clarity and coolness of the last few days had given way to a renewed oppressiveness.

There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that seemed to bode something.

But the summer heat combined with the oppressiveness of a closed apartment made it hard for herself and her sons to breathe.

Fascism introduced a form of state which was claustrophobic in its oppressiveness.

Punk was responsive to outside influences: the oppressiveness of government and economic welfare.

It is the oppressiveness of reality that allows fantasy to take root and bloom.

The campfire burned steadily, and there was a certain oppressiveness in the atmosphere.

Afterward Galina, unable to stand the oppressiveness, sets out for a walk into town.

The issues raised then have not been resolved yet: race, states' rights, the perceived oppressiveness of the Federal Government.

No description could convey its air of menace, its oppressiveness.

In the dark well known things become oppressive, an oppressiveness that surrounds you and cannot be localised.