It was a little too provoking even for her self-control that this blooming youngster should flourish on the disappointments of sadder and wiser people—making a meal of a nightingale and never knowing it—and that all the while his family should suppose that hers was in eager need of this sprig; and her vexation had fermented the more actively because of its total repression towards her husband.
She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength.
Venezuela is still in the grip of a worsening crisis of food shortages, political repression and crippling price rises, teetering on the brink of hyperinflation.
The police are sometimes characterised as despotic agents of digital repression.
" "Reading Lolita" was precisely about turning inward, away from desperate events — in this case a revolution that had betrayed many of its protagonists, offering veils of repression rather than long-sought freedom — to the consolation of great Western literature.
She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength.
