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  • Grandmother Adelia too was still in place, though she'd begun to sag: her face now wore an expression of repressed but joyful cunning.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Things I've either been repressing or was just too young to recall are coming back to me full force.†   (source)
  • My mom thinks I'm repressing my feelings about this.†   (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)
  • In recent decades, the United States has supported, and sometimes even helped install, repressive regimes in Latin America.†   (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)
  • I've always been very good at repressing unpleasant things.†   (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)
  • To her surprise, he was complaining about it, commenting that he found it taxing, found the culture repressed.†   (source)
  • Censorship, repression and suppression simply don't work.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • True to their system of exerting pressure by gradual stages, they issued new repressive decrees in January and February of 1940.†   (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)
  • There's no way I'm functioning as normally as I am without repressing something.†   (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)
  • And the boy, staring up at the vampire, could not repress a gasp.†   (source)
  • Alec repressed a shudder.†   (source)
  • Early one morning, vanquished by the unbearable pain of repressed virility, hewent to Catarino's.†   (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)
  • But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.†   (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)
  • Wasn't it to impede tyranny, aggression, repression?†   (source)
  • How do we know repression exists if the tools are unconscious and the thing we're repressing is so cleverly disguised?†   (source)
  • In the brief instant before he looked away there was, on David's face, a flash of tension, of anger quickly repressed.†   (source)
  • If anything, it sounded like I was repressing a smile.†   (source)
  • Despite protest and criticism, the Nationalist response was to tighten the screws of repression.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • At one point he, in his worldliness of two college semesters, got her alone and explained his understanding of her sense of repression.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Cindy repressed an urge to hug the cranky; domineering editor right on the bull pen floor.†   (source)
  • Moody insisted that even this was not repression.†   (source)
  • Two clear sides existed in Haiti, Farmer said—the forces of repression and the Haitian poor, the vast majority.†   (source)
  • And all week long he chortled with repressed delight at the officers' club.†   (source)
  • That's because you repressed the entire day, not just the night.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Specifics may come to you, certain repressed conduits electrically prodded into functioning.†   (source)
  • Already he's learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity.†   (source)
  • You might even be emotionally repressed.†   (source)
  • It's full of repressed fears and hatreds, things that we're afraid to bring out into .†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I repressed shudder—ate there once.†   (source)
  • The women were Scandinavian academics who thought that Italians were sexually repressed, and who thought they were alone.†   (source)
  • He struggled to repress sudden nausea.†   (source)
  • They say that poor Doña Victoria dipped him too deeply in a moment of long-repressed passion.†   (source)
  • And the national government will do a better job repressing tendencies toward sedition than a single State.†   (source)
  • Especially the, oh, more repressive aspects of Smithian Economics.†   (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)
  • We assumed the roles of his torturers, his tamers, and heaped all our repressed fury at the cadre on him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • This longing she repressed.†   (source)
  • Mr. Dudard, how is your report on the alcoholic repression law coming along?†   (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)
  • Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him.†   (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)
  • At length he could repress his feelings no longer.   (source)
  • said Mary, her eyes filling with tears, and a little sob rising which she tried to repress.   (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)
  • 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)
  • Anyone who is acquainted with Jews will attest that, if anything, in the sexual area they are meek and inhibited, unaggressive, even pathologically repressed.†   (source)
  • I was silent for a long moment, trying to absorb as best I could all this information which validated so conclusively the misgivings I had had about Nathan—misgivings and suspicions which up until now I had successfully repressed.†   (source)
  • Pulvermacher—said that the repressiveness of a society in general is directly proportionate to its harsh repression of sexual language.†   (source)
  • "It seems very unlikely, Harry," said Hermione in a repressive sort of voice.†   (source)
  • Alice's enthusiasm was impossible to repress.†   (source)
  • Colonel Gerineldo Marquez could not repress the disdain that was inspired in him by that attitude.†   (source)
  • I watched him repress the anger, watched as his eyes grew speculative.†   (source)
  • I think I'll pass," I sighed, repressing a shudder.†   (source)
  • 'It is enough that we know,' said Snape repressively.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said Slughorn, repressing a large belch.†   (source)
  • Frequently there is a particular experience which the person is desperately trying to repress.†   (source)
  • He turned on me suddenly, his voice dropping with repressed outrage.†   (source)
  • In other words, we accidentally say or do things that we once tried to repress.†   (source)
  • My mind still swirled dizzily, full of images I couldn't understand, and some I fought to repress.†   (source)
  • 'I'm dealin' with it, all righ'?' said Hagrid repressively.†   (source)
  • Could there be something she was trying to repress?†   (source)
  • He is now repressed, and I can continue my lecture.†   (source)
  • Whatever is repressed in this way will try of its own accord to reenter consciousness.†   (source)
  • But exactly what we have repressed can have changed considerably since Freud was a doctor in Vienna.†   (source)
  • At least, that's the way it is with repressed thoughts and urges.†   (source)
  • He reserved the term 'unconscious' for things we have repressed.†   (source)
  • And also the power that his self-repression gave him.†   (source)
  • Again, there was that spike of interest that Melanie repressed.†   (source)
  • I repressed an urge to moo and peeped over a girl's shoulder.†   (source)
  • She repressed everything and made out that her mother was never beaten.†   (source)
  • Not the quiet, repressed sounds of sadness, but the anguished cries of a child.†   (source)
  • But she had repressed the memory of him.†   (source)
  • His dark side was bursting through: the brutal, repressed animal, the modern-day werewolf.†   (source)
  • She crossed her arms over her chest, repressing the impulse to shiver.†   (source)
  • The racism and repression were the same; I would simply have to fight on different terms.†   (source)
  • Her voice when she spoke was tight with repressed feeling.†   (source)
  • He also writes about how a Union tends to repress domestic faction and rebellion.†   (source)
  • Echo's mind repressed the memories and Mrs. Collins is trying to help her remember.†   (source)
  • "Honey," she'd said, "there's not a single bone of repression in my entire body.†   (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)
  • "Thanks," I said, repressing an impulse to call him down about the "brother" business.†   (source)
  • They refuse to be repressed by society's mores or laws.†   (source)
  • She could not repress a crooked, embarrassed smile.†   (source)
  • They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.†   (source)
  • Specifics may come to you ...certain repressed conduits ...prodded into functioning.†   (source)
  • We repress, we disguise, we bury, we exclude.†   (source)
  • He repressed an impulse to reach out and feel her leg muscles.†   (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)
  • "Repression," she said with great sophistication.†   (source)
  • "He's refusing to be civilized, or repressed," I said.†   (source)
  • I woke up in a hospital two days later with the memories still repressed.†   (source)
  • Listening to Rose tell the story, he had barely found the self-control to repress his rage.†   (source)
  • The consequences of repressing women may run even deeper.†   (source)
  • Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress?†   (source)
  • He had escalated the battle against freedom to new heights of repression.†   (source)
  • Murray says the problem is that we don't repress our fear.†   (source)
  • Death is so strong that we have to repress, those of us who know how.†   (source)
  • They've been telling us for years not to repress our fears and desires.†   (source)
  • I thought the last thing we were supposed to do was repress something.†   (source)
  • But repression is totally false and mechanical.†   (source)
  • So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise.†   (source)
  • Repression causes tension, anxiety, unhappiness, a hundred diseases and conditions.†   (source)
  • My sudden pontifical tone was something I seemed unable to repress.†   (source)
  • Already repressed and forgotten.†   (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)
  • He's repressed his birthdays: they weren't a matter for general celebration, not after Dolores the live-in Philippina left.†   (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)
  • Rowdy was the opposite of repressed.†   (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)
  • Not for the castrating mother who had repressed Tita her entire life, but for the person who had lived a frustrated love.†   (source)
  • You mean she's repressed her memories?†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She felt him slip in under the mosquito netting as he had done when he was a child, as he had always done, and she could not repress her cold sweat and the chattering of her teeth when she realized that he was completely naked.†   (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)
  • Repressing a strong urge to throw something at him, Harry plowed on, "I still reckon he might have hidden something at Hogwarts."†   (source)
  • I repressed a sigh.†   (source)
  • Around the time of the riddle lottery, Aureliano Segundo began waking up with a knot in his throat, as ifhe were repressing a desire to weep.†   (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)
  • I couldn't repress a bitter smile.†   (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)
  • He summoned his reserves of persuasion, his broad and repressed tenderness, ready to give up for Amaranta a glory that had cost him the sacrifice of his best years.†   (source)
  • Those were days of such inner agitation, such irrepressible anxiety, and so many repressed urges that on the first evening that Meme was able to get out she went straight to Pilar Ternera's.†   (source)
  • In the shadows of her house, the solitary widow who at one time had been the confidante of his repressed loves and whose persistence had saved his life was a specter out of the past.†   (source)
  • It was too obvious that Meme was involved in secret matters, in pressing matters, in repressed anxieties long before the night that Fernanda upset the house because she caught her kissing a man in the movies.†   (source)
  • It was the first time that Nigromanta had had a steady man, a bone crusher from head to toe, as she herself said, dying with laughter, and she had even begun to get romantic illusions when Aureliano confided in her about his repressed passion for Amaranta Ursula, which he had not been able to cure with the substitution but which was twisting him inside all the more as experience broadened the horizons of love.†   (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)
  • We live under the constant pressure of repressed thoughts that are trying to fight their way up from the unconscious.†   (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)
  • When Freud was in America in 1909 lecturing on psychoanalysis, he gave an example of the way this repression mechanism functions.†   (source)
  • Freud himself did not claim to have discovered phenomena such as repression, defense mechanisms, or rationalizing.†   (source)
  • Now, if you transfer both locations to the psyche, calling this consciousness, and the outside the unconscious, you have a tolerably good illustration of the process of repression.'†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Hadn't she spent her childhood and adolescence trying to find them, and all of her adult life trying to repress them?†   (source)
  • Any repressive society offers vast opportunities for those willing to take minor risks on behalf of the repressed.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Without Jacob, and my adrenaline and my distractions, everything I'd been repressing started creeping up on me.†   (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)
  • Any repressive society offers vast opportunities for those willing to take minor risks on behalf of the repressed.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The seeming calm ended in 1988, with the revolt and army repression that caused Deo and his family to spend a week or so hiding in the woods.†   (source)
  • rights, at first I didn't want to hear about the dead, the tortured, and the disappeared, but 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 eliminate your ideological enemies, they're finishing off everyone, no one can go along with that, not even me, an†   (source)
  • They faced each other in silence, Celine with drawn lips, Bethany trying to hold back a torrent of repressed feelings about what she summarily thought of as her abandonment.†   (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)
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