repressiveness

But it said the number of cases should not be taken as an "index of repressiveness."

There was a reason for that repressiveness, she thought, and managed somehow not to giggle at the reflection.

His reign was notorious for its repressiveness and his excesses.

Since when does the size of a country matter when it comes to its importance, or its repressiveness?

His roguish abandon is the opposite of the sculptor's rigid repressiveness.

China's prickliness risks making it a symbol in the 1990's of recalcitrance and repressiveness.

These objects are displayed in dark cases that evoke 19th-century medical museums, not to mention Victorian repressiveness.

The Party's sexual repressiveness, she says, is designed to induce hysteria that can be turned into war fever and leader worship.

In 1929, disillusioned by the revolution, Mayakovsky wrote a protest play about the growing repressiveness of the regime.

She hated the school's repressiveness and the dogmatism of its religious teaching and took to writing poetry.

Perhaps we might not have done so, for fear of provoking old resentments in many quarters about our alleged repressiveness in earlier centuries.

They were successful in curbing security threats to the Protectorate, but the repressiveness of enforced moral reform was widely unpopular.

The repressiveness of the politicians and their indifference to the cultural precedents for their words and actions is not reassuring.

What Lee and Barbara Jones say they found with their dream home was a repressiveness bordering on tyranny.

Only the poverty of our religious imagination and the repressiveness of our social forms prevented that realization.'

What better lessons in the repressiveness to come than the censorship, closings and arrests suffered by Pravda at Czarist hands.

Revolution, he believed, is an inherently creative act against the repressiveness of the state, and he coined a word, "nomadism," to describe it.

Sociologists say that an increased willingness to address sexual problems reflects Spain's sexual liberation after the repressiveness of the Franco years.

In a preliminary series of encounters between the official and others in the poet's life, one can sense the extent of the repressiveness during Stalinist times.

Unlike me, you must not only overcome the repressiveness of racism, you must also overcome the lure of excuses.

Ignoring the prurient repressiveness of Chinese society, they spoke freely of women, did not conceal the details of their personal lives, told dirty jokes.

A prim, severe woman with attitude, Anna confronts the king's repressiveness and the racism and deceitfulness of her own countrymen.

In the autumn of 1928 Auden left Britain for nine months in Berlin, partly to rebel against English repressiveness.

Freudian theory cast an ugly light on Watsonian repressiveness, and affluence made the inner-directed, rigidly self-disciplined adult obsolete.

Indeed, during the 36-year reign of Francisco Franco, who died in 1975, many foreigners shunned Spain because of its repressiveness and backwardness.