Watch if you like murder mysteries that aren't oppressively bleak.
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But the advice can quickly turn judgmental and oppressively conservative.
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An oppressively cheerful ice cream manager/dictator ruled over this location.
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It wasn't that it ever felt oppressively hard or unfair throughout.
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It had the uncluttered, oppressively clean formality of an official residence.
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Everything in Dorothy's life is vestigial, most oppressively the title Mrs.
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But for most of "Antlia Pneumatica," time feels oppressively real and long.
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One of those views seems liberal and the other looks oppressively conservative.
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The views are nice, but at peak times the floors becomes oppressively crowded.
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If you add some sugar and some thickeners, it's not oppressively bean-y.
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As a result, the northern outposts were always heavily — and no doubt oppressively — militarized.
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The music was oppressively loud, rattling my bones and blurring my vision around the edges.
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But, even after that escape, there's little drama—the whole thing remains gentle, observational, oppressively decent.
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"My least favorite place to sell is Amazon because their fees are just oppressively large," Neal says.
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Bacon often isolated his subjects at the center of oppressively stark settings in which details are scarce.
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Though it was an oppressively hot afternoon, the world inside the vines felt cooler, almost air-conditioned.
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Even if you're part of a couple, life can start to feel oppressively lonely in Rancho Viejo.
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Standing inside the piece offers a welcome break from the fair's necessarily clinical yet oppressively white-walled aesthetic.
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Mass faintings in oppressively hot factories are common, and workers are routinely fired for getting sick or pregnant.
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I realize this all must sound oppressively chipper to someone stuck in bridge traffic with no perceivable end.
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YANDERRA, Australia (Reuters) - It was oppressively hot, above 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), and the wind was picking up.
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In fact, the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia, an oppressively hot and dry volcanic region, might as well be Mars.
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The "right to shoot tyrants," as Napolitano put it, warns our leaders away from the temptation of governing too oppressively.
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Blood had filled every free space in his brain, and the swelling encroached oppressively on gray and white matter alike.
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"Cimino committed the acts allegedly herein willfully, maliciously and oppressively with the wrongful intention of injuring Johnson," the suit claims.
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Once you twig that it is following assiduously in the footsteps of "Mary Poppins", it starts to feel oppressively predictable.
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Like its patrons, Brat's staff is uniformly young, unfussy and clever — vintage Shoreditch, in other words, but not oppressively so.
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But for the next year and a half, her ex did end up stalking her — persistently and oppressively — on social media.
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Hildegard Bechtler's set is unadorned, save for rows of studio microphones that hang oppressively from above, as if recording every word.
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Since I was a little child, like four or five, I remember being competitive with Picasso when he was oppressively big.
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One oppressively warm, lonely night I attempted to sit through the first episode and found myself bored, struggling to connect. Ducks?
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The darkening would last for many months, most oppressively in the Northern Hemisphere, though the Southern Hemisphere would hardly be immune.
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While wool might seem oppressively hot or scratchy, this isn't the wool your authentic Irish fisherman's sweater is made out of.
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" Two women are said to be "so oppressively hip there are about four square blocks in the world where they can exist.
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Stacy knew this show was a way out of her oppressively carpeted one-bedroom and the struggles of her blue-collar existence.
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On the other hand, these tools can be used oppressively, like they were in the case of Hollywood blacklists of alleged Communists.
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There's a modern hospital bed, a reception desk, and a waiting area with a vast expanse of oppressively cheerful salmon-pink tile.
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I believe that when parents oppressively push their children toward academic success, it prevents them from forming intrinsic motivation for scholarly accomplishments.
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My only memory of the bus ride was that it was oppressively hot and humid, and that Vietnam smelled like raw sewage.
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While the fair is located in downtown Miami's first shopping mall — the oppressively huge and shiny Brickell City Centre — nothing is for sale.
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"Here I Am" has its own gaggle of oppressively endearing and overachieving children, with their cello and fencing lessons and precocious existential questions.
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Doorways replete with ornately carved frosting jambs open into niches and cul-de-sacs of mirrored halls and oppressively, delightfully pink buttercream cornices.
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Oppressively dark and unrelentingly intense, "Blood on Her Name" packs down-and-dirty performances, and a few surprises, into a tight 85 minutes.
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Low ceilings can make a space "feel oppressively short," he said, but if you add the right lighting, it will feel more open.
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His mother, Kathleen Maddox, had been raised in an oppressively religious household and was an unwed teen mother, abandoned by Charles's biological father.
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Ewing's 1919 is a window into the mental and emotional lives of Black Americans in a Chicago, in an America, where time beckons oppressively.
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She said the secret to ensuring that they feel like a game rather than a test is to be specific but not oppressively so.
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Daisy Ridley and John Boyega were the perfect antidotes to the stolid, oppressively self-serious Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman of the George Lucas prequels.
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The sheer size of the display also makes the whole thing feel more luxurious and immersive — although some passengers might well find it oppressively large.
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Like just about everyone else, I find the city as bracingly energetic as it's always been and even more oppressively expensive than it used to be.
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Now you can communicate doing all those things without having to commit to long or short hair, or gendered clothing, or oppressively masculine or feminine eyebrows.
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At the gathering, Abbott warned the crowd that the drive toward marriage equality threatened religious freedom and would be used "oppressively" against people who opposed it.
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During the second act, the violence and chaos escalates as Bateman goes on a killing spree, acting out after an oppressively boring vacation in the Hamptons.
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There's the aqua blue pools, the oppressively dark caves, the soft green forests, the wintery mountains, and the endgame area tinged with menacing reds and purples.
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In "Anomalisa," a lonesome customer-service expert named Michael Stone spends a night at an oppressively functional Cincinnati hotel before addressing a group of customer-service reps.
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And each of Everybody's individual encounters with the figures of Kinship, Friendship and Stuff (whom he individually begs to accompany him in death) feels oppressively the same.
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It was ranked worst in the world for press freedom in 2019, and Human Rights Watch called it "one of the world's most isolated and oppressively governed countries."
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Among his other books was "The Transported of KwaNdebele" (1989), which documented the oppressively long commutes of black South Africans living in segregated "homelands" to jobs in cities.
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It is an unholy practice, the telling of a life story that isn't one's own on the basis of oppressively massive quantities of random, not necessarily reliable information.
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Without being oppressively explicit about it (mostly), Hunt gets at the myriad ways women work to keep their self-possession in the face of social and interpersonal expectations.
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Ironically, the system favors what we desperately wanted to avoid when we opted for democracy in the first place: the power-hungry, arrogant, oppressively self-assertive political animal.
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Even grimmer, darker superhero pictures like Avengers: Infinity War and Venom pride themselves on their moments of levity; superhero movies without substantial jokes are usually derided as oppressively humorless.
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DANAKIL DEPRESSION, Ethiopia — In oppressively dry heat and a miasma of sulfur and chlorine, the rocky landscape sprouts patches of neon green and yellow that resemble oozing scrambled eggs.
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IN JERIF, a district of Khartoum, young Eritreans listen to Tigrinya pop music in dimly lit restaurants, or watch football at an oppressively hot community centre supported by their government.
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Murjani was also alleging that Sim and several other parties had pushed him out as CEO of TWG Tea, and acted "oppressively" in edging out his share of the company.
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The dew point, or temperature at which water vapor condenses, has been hovering oppressively close to the temperature of the ocean itself, meaning water is simply pouring into the atmosphere.
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The wood on the interior walls had been rigorously stained, and was almost the color of fudge, a stark contrast to the world outside, which was relentlessly, almost oppressively bright.
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The creatures are everywhere, invisible and mostly harmless to the rest of the world, but oppressively visible to her and, as Alex learns one day as a preteen, not harmless.
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Burlakoff had traveled to her territory to join her on a "ride along," coaching her through sales calls on an oppressively sunny day, and they had just left Chun's office.
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"We should be the last ones without power or water," Gonzalez tuts at the counter on an oppressively hot morning without services in the middle-class, hilltop Villa Brasil district.
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"I, Daniel Blake" builds up an oppressively claustrophobic atmosphere of mounting dread, and you wonder if the stresses of Daniel's circumstances will catch up with him in his weakened state.
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As another endless summer crawls toward a close with a string of oppressively humid days up and down the east coast of the United States, I find myself prone to despair.
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See MURDER IN THE SUBURBS AVIVA STAHL Aviva Stahl grew up in the oppressively landscaped suburbs of northern New Jersey, where she spent her middle school years arguing with underage Republicans.
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" But with all due respect to Francis Ford Coppola, everyone who saw Ali and Frazier nearly kill each other that oppressively sticky Manila morning knew it was the original "Apocalypse Now.
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Olive is furious and uncompromising, agitated by her husband, who is "oppressively nice" (McDormand's words), puzzled and disappointed by her son, ill at ease with emotion and bewildered by social niceties.
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Vaulting, which they employ even in very small bathrooms, makes their spaces feel larger; their preferred coffered panels in pine and oak turn oppressively low European ceilings into an architectural feature.
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In a gripping account reported Friday by Los Angeles Times columnist Robin Abcarian, one of those hostages describes how she and others survived the ordeal on an oppressively hot July 21 afternoon.
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If this musical's high-mindedness at times veers toward the oppressively arty, the same could never be said of "Aladdin," the Disney extravaganza that opened on Wednesday at the Prince Edward Theater.
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Human Rights Watch calls it "one of the world's most isolated and oppressively governed countries" and says that "all aspects of public life are controlled by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and his associates."
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Now that you're no longer dealing with crowds and oppressively hot weather, there are a bevy of fast and fun getaways worth exploring, each a hotspot for food, outdoor adventure, and music.
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"Nevertheless, once the infrastructure for the surveillance state has been built, it's very difficult to prevent government from eventually accessing it irresponsibly, or worse, oppressively," says Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Our views on Russia have changed since, then changed yet again — and the Soviet athletic training methods we perceived as oppressively mechanical and soulless have basically become the standard for all competitive sports.
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If the possibility that U.S. agents could use their capabilities to behave oppressively seems far-fetched, readers should consider the troubled history of government surveillance aimed at the civil rights movement and other activists.
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"Texas is oppressively hot in the summer, so my emotional response was one of relief and awe that an oil painting could be somehow as deceptively simple and powerful as her work," says Elliott.
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It is 1943 when Gina's father, a general in the Hungarian Army, ships his daughter off to an oppressively pious boarding school in the remote village of Arkod (now the Serbian town of Jarkovac).
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Then one day I walked into the examination room to see my patient and was struck by a cloud of fear that seemed to hang in the room oppressively, consuming the oxygen within it.
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The princess's 29-year-old lover was last seen in July 1694, visiting his mistress at the castle during nocturnal hours; they were plotting to escape her oppressively unhappy marriage and elope later that summer.
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I felt alternatively overstimulated or oppressively lonely, going between parties where I had nothing to say because my life was chaos and days of minimal human contact that only revolved around different ways to drink coffee.
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And she isn't uncool in a secretly-cool way, like how teen girl protagonists from Belle to Katniss to Lady Bird are just too clever, too rebellious, too idiosyncratic, too real for their oppressively humdrum towns.
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This could have to do with a couple of different reasons (not including that most of these people probably have air conditioning because oppressively hot weather usually doesn't make people randy, but maybe that's just me).
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Meanwhile liberalism dominates the cultural commanding heights as never before, with not only academia and the media but also late-night television and sportswriting and even young-adult fiction more monolithically and — to conservatives — oppressively progressive.
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In 2016, South Carolinians and people across America are facing more than fears for their safety, but unique and very real challenges in the areas of poverty, social mobility, gun violence, and an oppressively low minimum wage.
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Instead of relying on her natural charisma, Lohan is oppressively sex-forward in I Know Who Killed Me. Self-conscious about her acting skills, Lohan may have fundamentally misunderstood why we liked her in the first place.
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" The court documents state that the defendants "conduct as herein alleged was willful and wanton, and committed maliciously, fraudulently, and oppressively, with the wrongful intent of injuring Mr. Smollett, and in conscious disregard of Mr. Smollett's rights.
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All Tamir wanted to talk about was money—the average Israeli income, the size of his own easy fortune, the unrivalled quality of life in that fingernail clipping of oppressively hot homeland hemmed in by psychopathic enemies.
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I expected to feel his presence oppressively, but instead, in that small space, I registered him as being barely there—an empty vacuum into which the winds of whiteness, maleness, money, bigotry, and big talk were constantly rushing.
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Constance Grady: It was surprisingly compelling to watch Luke muddle around in the darkness of this episode, but what struck me was how much less oppressively cramped "The Other Side" felt compared with the show's first few episodes.
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Elfo has left his oppressively cheerful homeland in search of the right to not be happy, but the scripts almost instantly abandon his initial motivation to experience new things and turn his crush on Bean into his dominant trait.
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Defined by emoting, sexual fluidity (however performative), and oppressively tight jeans, emo's millennial incarnation was bolstered by the fact that it arrived in tandem with MySpace—the first and only social network to be inherently twinned with music culture.
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One look at Paul Tate dePoo III's dark wood-paneled set, with its oppressively awful window treatments and the portrait of Jesus on a bookshelf, and you know that this blend of formality and austerity is not the inhabitants' chosen décor.
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But the whole zombie situation flips the building's beauty on its head with bodies strewn about pools of blood, oppressively dark and sinister hallways where terrible things could lurch from any direction at any moment, and an overwhelming sense of dread.
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He didn't fight a culture war; he talked about oppressively long commuting times and the opioid crisis, which has ravaged Staten Island, and he relentlessly made the point that his opponent had taken money from Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin.
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The Alabama senate race dominated the national headlines, but organizers said black voters they spoke to were just as energized about local issues including an oppressively low state minimum wage, increasingly segregated schools, and rural hospitals closing in majority-black areas.
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And Clinton might not have been so oppressively aware of the possibility of sudden death at any age that he might not have hurried up and become the youngest governor in America, and president of the United States at 46.
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Chopping a hole in the second floor to expand the lobby space was essential; the old place was oppressively low-ceilinged — just as is the old Park Central at Seventh Avenue, between 55th and 56th Streets, of the same vintage as the Barclay.
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It's an oppressively sunny weekday afternoon, made all the more disorienting because the 20153-year-old artist has spent the last several hours underground, with a cadre of producers, engineers, friends, and a manager, in a tightly secured studio beneath a hotel in West Hollywood.
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There's no simple answer, but Finns offer various deep-seated factors, including an enthusiastically outdoorsy populace (that goes slightly stir-crazy during the region's oppressively dark winter months), widespread public access to recreational spaces, and a continuing relaxation of the traditionally reserved national character.
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In wintertime, the heat will be kept just above testicle-freezing temperatures, and in summer (which, in this age of global warming, runs long, sometimes interminably), the temperature will be so oppressively hot – the degradation of humanity within its walls, so great – that Holman becomes, literally, hell on earth.
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In the few days since the rapper Kanye West has doubled down on his public affinity for President Trump and other conservative figures on Twitter, his opinions — and the backlash they have wrought in some circles — have been hailed by those who have long seen the entertainment world as oppressively liberal.
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Spruced up for its 30th anniversary, this artfully composed (if oppressively maudlin) immigrant saga by Bille August follows a father (Max von Sydow) and his young son (Pelle Hvenegaard) after they arrive in Denmark from Sweden looking for work, for which the father, struggling in vain to project dignity, isn't in great condition.
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"In 'dumping' thousands of Scooters onto our streets, sidewalks, and other Public Places within a very short period of time, without any significant, reasonable or appropriate warning to or approval by public authorities, the Scooter Defendants, and each of them, have acted in a grossly negligent manner and outrageously, maliciously, fraudulently and oppressively and/or with a conscious disregard for the health, safety and welfare," the lawsuit says.
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Having established her thought experiment, her area of study—a woman reading a biography, an actor about to walk onto the stage for a one-man avant-garde play ("Compulsion"), a man buying blinds at IKEA ("Nice and Mild"), a girl trying to avoid playing the piano for her oppressively doting grandfather ("Overtures")—she presses down on the exquisite dilemma, and fearlessly follows the logic of the form she has chosen.
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On a bright and oppressively hot morning in Manila, RJ Nieto recounted a string of conspiracy theories over a meal of beef tapa and rice in OK Café in Pasig, a smoggy city on the eastern border of Metro Manila: A Filipino photojournalist livestreamed military activities during a conflict in the southern Philippines and put soldiers at risk, he told me (not true); the former administration was in such a "rush to plunder public funds" that it botched a nationwide vaccine program and endangered young lives (unproven); all media outlets are irreparably biased by their owners (antithetical to the fundamental principles of journalism).
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