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  • Though the Count was not a man to gloat, he could not repress a smile of satisfaction.†   (source)
  • The train fills him with foreboding, but he represses the fear and walks up and down, peering inside.†   (source)
  • To speak frankly, many are sexual deviants, either terribly repressed and subject to explosions of frenzied lasciviousness or openly depraved, in either case regularly affronting management with gross outrages of free sex and incest.†   (source)
  • He repressed a shudder at the thought of what might come spilling out of his mouth if Snape did it… quite apart from landing a whole lot of people in trouble — Hermione and Dobby for a start — there were all the other things he was concealing …. like the fact that he was in contact with Sirius …. and — his insides squirmed at the thought — how he felt about Cho.†   (source)
  • " Miss Skeeter say maybe don't spec nothing at all, that most Southern peoples is "repressed.†   (source)
  • But surrounding it was the stillness of near-midnight in a country town, so that the hurrying feet and the repressed voices had a hollow reverberance.†   (source)
  • This first venture outside her new home was not starting out auspiciously for Kit, but as they set out along the road she could not repress her curiosity and bouncing spirits.†   (source)
  • To her surprise, he was complaining about it, commenting that he found it taxing, found the culture repressed.†   (source)
  • That's the kind of fatalism and pessimism typical of a repressive feudal system, where peasants have no reason to believe in the efficacy of their own work.†   (source)
  • Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.†   (source)
  • Things I've either been repressing or was just too young to recall are coming back to me full force.†   (source)
  • In recent decades, the United States has supported, and sometimes even helped install, repressive regimes in Latin America.†   (source)
  • My mom thinks I'm repressing my feelings about this.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure I'd expected anything different, but the finality brought to the surface all those feelings I'd been repressing since I'd read her last letter.†   (source)
  • "That's because you repressed the entire day, not just the night."†   (source)
  • I've always been very good at repressing unpleasant things.†   (source)
  • The poor Afghan people realized too late what they had done: handed over the entire country to a group of bearded lunatics who were trying to inflict upon them nothing but stark human misery and who controlled every move they made under their brutal, repressive, draconian rule.†   (source)
  • Sex in her books nearly always takes on a political cast as characters explore their sexuality while at the same time throwing off the restrictions of a conservative, repressed, religious society.†   (source)
  • In that way, it's a big change from being a slop-slinger for the repressed.†   (source)
  • Censorship, repression and suppression simply don't work.†   (source)
  • How do we know repression exists if the tools are unconscious and the thing we're repressing is so cleverly disguised?†   (source)
  • Alec repressed a shudder.†   (source)
  • True to their system of exerting pressure by gradual stages, they issued new repressive decrees in January and February of 1940.†   (source)
  • He had tried to avoid thinking about what he was doing and just keep putting one foot in front of the other, but like grass pushing through concrete, the repressed feelings and fears somehow began to poke through.†   (source)
  • "Well," he says, spreading his fingers out in front of him on the desk, "there are therapists who believe that hypnosis can be used to recover repressed memories, but it's very controversial.†   (source)
  • Her state of alarm was such that she avoided speaking at the table for fear some slip might betray her, and she became evasive even with her Aunt Escolastica, who nonetheless shared her repressed anxiety as if it were her own.†   (source)
  • But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.†   (source)
  • At one point he, in his worldliness of two college semesters, got her alone and explained his understanding of her sense of repression.†   (source)
  • Two clear sides existed in Haiti, Farmer said—the forces of repression and the Haitian poor, the vast majority.†   (source)
  • He was a big, good man with a soft baritone, who ruled with easy tact a choir of repressed soloists, and who had an unerring memory for the favorite hymns of District Superintendents.†   (source)
  • But Martin was a repressed boy and under the influence of his father, just as Gottfried was cowed by his father, the Nazi.†   (source)
  • If anything, it sounded like I was repressing a smile.†   (source)
  • Moody insisted that even this was not repression.†   (source)
  • Despite protest and criticism, the Nationalist response was to tighten the screws of repression.†   (source)
  • In the brief instant before he looked away there was, on David's face, a flash of tension, of anger quickly repressed.†   (source)
  • She repressed the giggles.†   (source)
  • China traditionally has been one of the more repressive and smothering places for girls, and we could see hints of this in Sheryl's own family history.†   (source)
  • There's no way I'm functioning as normally as I am without repressing something.†   (source)
  • It was up to me to instigate, but when he was that repressed kid released, my whole heart wanted him to stay that way forever.†   (source)
  • Cindy repressed an urge to hug the cranky; domineering editor right on the bull pen floor.†   (source)
  • And the boy, staring up at the vampire, could not repress a gasp.†   (source)
  • Still, in the silence of the night, when the city lost its stage-set normality and operetta peace, she was besieged by the agonizing thoughts she had repressed during the day.†   (source)
  • And all week long he chortled with repressed delight at the officers' club.†   (source)
  • Umm, I think Wright wanted you to figure things out for yourself, so you wouldn't be thinking about all these larger forces, like racial repression and violence right off," Cedric says.†   (source)
  • I had visions of me, the groom, riding in on an elephant, a symbol of the desire and the frustration I had repressed—only an elephant (or a jumbo jet) would do.†   (source)
  • It's full of repressed fears and hatreds, things that we're afraid to bring out into . the open.†   (source)
  • You might even be emotionally repressed.†   (source)
  • Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity.†   (source)
  • Thanks to the old man's "magic papers," Jax had gotten his brother and sister out of Jamaica during the repressive Manley years when established professionals were all but prohibited from emigrating and certainly not with personal funds.†   (source)
  • They say that poor Doña Victoria dipped him too deeply in a moment of long-repressed passion.†   (source)
  • He struggled to repress sudden nausea.†   (source)
  • Public force is the life and soul of every state: not merely army and police but prisons, judges, tax collectors, every conceivable trick of coercive repression.†   (source)
  • Having grown up in the repressive Soviet police state, she lives in fear of being marched off to jail in the middle of the night and disappearing forever.†   (source)
  • She saw nothing in his face except the blind malevolence of pain, of some long-repressed anger that broke out upon the first object available, almost without consciousness of the object's identity.†   (source)
  • We assumed the roles of his torturers, his tamers, and heaped all our repressed fury at the cadre on him.†   (source)
  • Well, now that Josh and Jenny seem to be doing okay (and I try and repress any feelings—good or bad—that I have for him), I thought, sure, why not?†   (source)
  • The women were Scandinavian academics who thought that Italians were sexually repressed, and who thought they were alone.†   (source)
  • And the national government will do a better job repressing tendencies toward sedition than a single State.†   (source)
  • I repressed shudder—ate there once.†   (source)
  • The only difference is that it's brought gloriously up to date with a lot of jargon about complexes and repressions and sublimations that the writer brought home from his analyst's.†   (source)
  • Especially the, oh, more repressive aspects of Smithian Economics.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it to impede tyranny, aggression, repression?†   (source)
  • It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.†   (source)
  • Nor was there any pathology here, anything to do with sinister psychic repression which might have driven me to seek medical care.†   (source)
  • This longing she repressed.†   (source)
  • The three of us—Doris, my mother, and I—were people bred to repress the emotional expressions of love, but I did something that startled both my mother and me.†   (source)
  • By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged.†   (source)
  • But whenever her eyes met those of her friends she would quickly get up and hurry from the room and up the stairs, repressing her sobs until she fell on the bed and buried her bursts of despair in the pillow.†   (source)
  • The girl repressed her irritation at the catechism; Ma was like that, and there was now too little time to spend it in quarrelling.†   (source)
  • Mr. Dudard, how is your report on the alcoholic repression law coming along?†   (source)
  • Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him.†   (source)
  • She blushed with emotion when he came into the room, she could not repress a smile of rapture when he said anything amiable to her.   (source)
  • On recognizing her step-mother, Valentine could not repress a shudder, which caused a vibration in the bed.   (source)
  • said Mary, her eyes filling with tears, and a little sob rising which she tried to repress.   (source)
  • At length he could repress his feelings no longer.   (source)
  • Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.   (source)
  • The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression.   (source)
    repression = subjugation (oppressing or holding others down)
  • My analyst—Dr. Pulvermacher—said that the repressiveness of a society in general is directly proportionate to its harsh repression of sexual language.†   (source)
  • Alice's enthusiasm was impossible to repress.†   (source)
  • "It seems very unlikely, Harry," said Hermione in a repressive sort of voice.†   (source)
  • I think I'll pass," I sighed, repressing a shudder.†   (source)
  • My mind still swirled dizzily, full of images I couldn't understand, and some I fought to repress.†   (source)
  • Could there be something she was trying to repress?†   (source)
  • I woke up in a hospital two days later with the memories still repressed.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said Slughorn, repressing a large belch.†   (source)
  • We repress, we disguise, we bury, we exclude.†   (source)
  • "Honey," she'd said, "there's not a single bone of repression in my entire body.†   (source)
  • 'It is enough that we know,' said Snape repressively.†   (source)
  • I watched him repress the anger, watched as his eyes grew speculative.†   (source)
  • Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress?†   (source)
  • Echo's mind repressed the memories and Mrs. Collins is trying to help her remember.†   (source)
  • In other words, we accidentally say or do things that we once tried to repress.†   (source)
  • 'I'm dealin' with it, all righ'?' said Hagrid repressively.†   (source)
  • Murray says the problem is that we don't repress our fear.†   (source)
  • Frequently there is a particular experience which the person is desperately trying to repress.†   (source)
  • At least, that's the way it is with repressed thoughts and urges.†   (source)
  • Death is so strong that we have to repress, those of us who know how.†   (source)
  • But exactly what we have repressed can have changed considerably since Freud was a doctor in Vienna.†   (source)
  • They've been telling us for years not to repress our fears and desires.†   (source)
  • He is now repressed, and I can continue my lecture.†   (source)
  • I thought the last thing we were supposed to do was repress something.†   (source)
  • But repression is totally false and mechanical.†   (source)
  • He reserved the term 'unconscious' for things we have repressed.†   (source)
  • Whatever is repressed in this way will try of its own accord to reenter consciousness.†   (source)
  • So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise.†   (source)
  • Repression causes tension, anxiety, unhappiness, a hundred diseases and conditions.†   (source)
  • Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning.†   (source)
  • She crossed her arms over her chest, repressing the impulse to shiver.†   (source)
  • Again, there was that spike of interest that Melanie repressed.†   (source)
  • His dark side was bursting through: the brutal, repressed animal, the modern-day werewolf.†   (source)
  • I repressed an urge to moo and peeped over a girl's shoulder.†   (source)
  • Early one morning, vanquished by the unbearable pain of repressed virility, hewent to Catarino's.†   (source)
  • And also the power that his self-repression gave him.†   (source)
  • But she had repressed the memory of him.†   (source)
  • Not the quiet, repressed sounds of sadness, but the anguished cries of a child.†   (source)
  • She repressed everything and made out that her mother was never beaten.†   (source)
  • Massachusetts needed to raise troops to repress disorders.†   (source)
  • Only then could the people rise up in confidence and truly liberate themselves from repression.†   (source)
  • Colonel Gerineldo Marquez could not repress the disdain that was inspired in him by that attitude.†   (source)
  • They refuse to be repressed by society's mores or laws."†   (source)
  • The plebes shook with repressed, uncontainable laughter.†   (source)
  • In short, all of us need to become more cosmopolitan and aware of global repression based on gender.†   (source)
  • He repressed an impulse to reach out and feel her leg muscles.†   (source)
  • They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.†   (source)
  • Listening to Rose tell the story, he had barely found the self-control to repress his rage.†   (source)
  • Specifics may come to you … certain repressed conduits … prodded into functioning.†   (source)
  • Her voice when she spoke was tight with repressed feeling.†   (source)
  • "Thanks," I said, repressing an impulse to call him down about the "brother" business.†   (source)
  • He had escalated the battle against freedom to new heights of repression.†   (source)
  • "He's refusing to be civilized, or repressed," I said.†   (source)
  • He turned on me suddenly, his voice dropping with repressed outrage.†   (source)
  • "Repression," she said with great sophistication.†   (source)
  • She could not repress a crooked, embarrassed smile.†   (source)
  • The consequences of repressing women may run even deeper.†   (source)
  • He also writes about how a Union tends to repress domestic faction and rebellion.†   (source)
  • The racism and repression were the same; I would simply have to fight on different terms.†   (source)
  • Even Mr. Fleagle stopped two or three times to repress a small prim smile.†   (source)
  • My sudden pontifical tone was something I seemed unable to repress.†   (source)
  • He's repressed his birthdays: they weren't a matter for general celebration, not after Dolores the live-in Philippina left.†   (source)
  • Harry repressed a shudder as she touched him with her thick, stubby fingers on which she wore a number of ugly old rings.†   (source)
  • Can it be supposed that public morals are improved, or the tendency to the commission of flagrant crimes repressed, by such public sights as these.†   (source)
  • Dudley gently released himself from his mother's clutches and walked toward Harry who had to repress an urge to threaten him with magic.†   (source)
  • Simon's first thought is that Dora has hurled the tray at him — she has always suggested, to his mind, a barely repressed and potentially criminal violence.†   (source)
  • He had to repress the trembling that was almost as old as he was when he saw the beautiful woman of his dreams on her husband's arm, splendid in her maturity, striding like a queen from another time past the honor guard in parade uniform, under the shower of paper streamers and flower petals tossed at them from the windows.†   (source)
  • She sternly repressed a tendency to boisterousness when she reflected that Sidney Lanier must have been somewhat like her long-departed cousin, Joshua Singleton St. Clair, whose private literary preserves stretched from the Black Belt to Bayou La Batre.†   (source)
  • He was a student of Haitian history, and he knew that trading one corrupt, repressive, and unelected government for another was nothing new for the country or for American policy toward Haiti.†   (source)
  • But American movies still deserved their careful consideration, he argued, not simply as windows into Western culture, but as unprecedented mechanisms of class repression.†   (source)
  • Oh no, really?" said Hermione, shooting a repressive look at Ron, who, staring at Hagrid's odd hairstyle, had just opened his mouth to say something about it.†   (source)
  • Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today — perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaims in Mermish — do not repress it!†   (source)
  • You mean she's repressed her memories?†   (source)
  • Rowdy was the opposite of repressed.†   (source)
  • Not for the castrating mother who had repressed Tita her entire life, but for the person who had lived a frustrated love.†   (source)
  • Dreadful as all this news was, it could not disturb our animal pleasure in still being alive ourselves, and knowing that those» who had escaped death were no longer in any immediate danger, although the subconscious mind repressed these feelings out of shame.†   (source)
  • Repressing a strong urge to throw something at him, Harry plowed on, "I still reckon he might have hidden something at Hogwarts."†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza could not repress a sigh of relief when she received the news of his death, and in order to avoid questions she did not wear mourning, but for several months she wept with mute fury without knowing why when she locked herself in the bathroom to smoke, and it was because she was crying for him.†   (source)
  • This simple knowledge, today's date — which was so obvious that I must have been subconsciously repressing it — made the deadline I'd been impatiently counting down toward feel like a date with the firing squad.†   (source)
  • It's entirely possible that there are memories you have buried or repressed, memories formed when you were too young to have a conscious recollection of them, that Brother Jeremiah can reach.†   (source)
  • What with the revolt of 1905 and the repressions that followed, when we graduated it was still a dangerous time for writing poems of political impatience.†   (source)
  • 'Never you mind,' said Professor Grubbly-Plank repressively, which had been her attitude last time Hagrid had failed to turn up for a class, too.†   (source)
  • Once again Florentino Ariza had to summon all his strength not to reveal to Leona Cassiani his repressed love for Fermina Daza.†   (source)
  • I repressed a sigh.†   (source)
  • One or two of the wizards barely repressed a shudder as the hissing grew louder; something heavy could be heard sliding across the floor beneath the table.†   (source)
  • The same iron hermeticism with which he had revealed to no one but his mother the secret of his repressed passion meant that he did not tell anyone he was going away and did not say goodbye to anyone, but on the eve of his departure he committed, with full awareness, a final mad act of the heart that might well have cost him his life.†   (source)
  • When we project, we transfer the characteristics we are trying to repress in ourselves onto other people.†   (source)
  • We may repress our desires.†   (source)
  • You don't know how to repress.†   (source)
  • Freud himself did not claim to have discovered phenomena such as repression, defense mechanisms, or rationalizing.†   (source)
  • Repress it?†   (source)
  • When Freud was in America in 1909 lecturing on psychoanalysis, he gave an example of the way this repression mechanism functions.†   (source)
  • How do we know repression exists if the tools are unconscious and the thing we're repressing is so cleverly disguised?†   (source)
  • I thought repression was outdated.†   (source)
  • This thought was on course for a frontal collision with her superego, and was so monstrous an idea that she immediately repressed it, Freud tells us.†   (source)
  • We live under the constant pressure of repressed thoughts that are trying to fight their way up from the unconscious.†   (source)
  • But isn't repression unnatural?†   (source)
  • Now, if you transfer both locations to the psyche, calling this con-sciousness, and the outside the unconscious, you have a tolerably good illustration of the process of repression.'†   (source)
  • The little girls were duly instructed that on no account were they to refer to the bishop's nose, since children often blurt out spontaneous remarks about people because their repressive mechanism is not yet developed.†   (source)
  • And although this censorship, or repression mechanism, is considerably weaker when we are asleep than when we are awake, it is still strong enough to cause our dreams to distort the wishes we cannot acknowledge.†   (source)
  • But in order that the disturbance may not be repeated, in case the man who has just been thrown out attempts to force his way back into the room, the gentlemen who have executed my suggestion take their chairs to the door and establish themselves there as a resistance, to keep up the repression.†   (source)
  • Any repressive society offers vast opportunities for those willing to take minor risks on behalf of the repressed.†   (source)
  • Without Jacob, and my adrenaline and my distractions, everything I'd been repressing started creeping up on me.†   (source)
  • I can't tell if it's because of my barely repressed tears or Jean-Luc's proximity…which, given how often the swaying of the train occasionally causes his arm to brush mine, is considerable.†   (source)
  • Already repressed and forgotten.†   (source)
  • Each clique ruled for its own benefit, mainly, and used repression and violence and forms of ethnic politics to hold on to power.†   (source)
  • Hadn't she spent her childhood and adolescence trying to find them, and all of her adult life trying to repress them?†   (source)
  • This country had a history of repressive government; therefore, it was logical to assume that it had developed, long ago, an intricate professional network whose job it was to get people out.†   (source)
  • Any repressive society offers vast opportunities for those willing to take minor risks on behalf of the repressed.†   (source)
  • I remember, for example, shocking myself with a thought I had about that friend who was imprisoned in the seventies upon suspicion of having been involved with a political murder: I shocked myself by thinking that even if he were guilty, he might still perhaps be helping the future to be born, breaking the repressive forms and liberating new potential in the only way that worked, that is to say the violent way - which therefore became, by extension, the right way.†   (source)
  • …now I can't keep thinking they're just Communist lies, because even the gringos, who were the first to help the military and sent their own pilots to bombard the Presidential Palace, are scandalized by all the killing, it's not that I'm against repression, I understand that in the beginning you have to be firm if you want a return to order, but things have gotten out of hand, they're going overboard now and no one can go along with the story about internal security and how you have to…†   (source)
  • We repress them.†   (source)
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