Using "oppressive" in a sentence

This earth-to-body movement of knowledge rejects the top-down intellectual flow of the Cartesian method that german associates with oppressive systems that indoctrinate many to reject their relationship with their ancestors and the earth.
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Home Features Co-op Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (Image credit: Games Workshop) Warhammer 40,000: Darktide has the oppressive atmosphere of 40K dead to rights, with its dark city overwhelmed by a baleful sense of coming doom.
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He didn’t like living in Texas, any more than he did working for a petrochemical giant: “The climate is brutal, the topography is mind-numbing and there’s an oppressive political culture,” he says.
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Despite being based on historical characters and the oppressive history of British colonization and the East India Company, Rajamouli reminds us that “there were many officials, many British people who have done a lot of service to the country.
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"A Liberation Army is rising up in an act of rebellion against an oppressive rule.
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Meanwhile, official talks feel oppressive and restrictive and someone will give no thought to how their words can emotionally affect other people.
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We believe that free-to-play games can be fun and fair for everyone! So come dive into an epic adventure with the Relic Hunters to recover lost Relics and “Duck, Duck, Loot” some Ducans!StoryThe evil duck, Duke Ducan, has somehow stolen the past and tells everyone that he is responsible for everything good that has ever happened – providing legitimacy to his oppressive galactic regime.
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Afterward, Abakanowicz became an artist under an oppressive Communist regime and struggled against the odds to build an internationally recognized career.
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Puck Brecher points out that local Japanese religion typically encouraged good treatment of animals, in contrast with Judeo-Christian teachings, which have long been critiqued by critical animal theorists like Peter Singer as contributing to oppressive notions of human “dominion” over animals.
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We have drug issues and oppressive issues in our communities based on discrimination and Jim Crow and not being included.
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At the heart of it all were Portishead, whose gloomy, brooding and often oppressive sound was a conspiracy of contradictions that defined ‘trip-hop’.
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But what’s important is that all good science fiction about repressed emotions and oppressive societies argue the same thing.
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By adding the feature globally, the company can deny (if only somewhat plausibly) helping an oppressive government quell protests.
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She’s maybe 10 years old, and Mother’s chosen form of oppressive competitiveness for Tinja is gymnastics.
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The scene establishes the Imperials on Aldhani as arrogant and oppressive of the indigenous population, waving away any qualms that audience might have about the rebel cell holding space-AKs to the officers’ heads.
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It seems incongruous but just seeing those familiar club names on the screen makes me know where my real loyalty to football is and it’s not in a sportswashing project in an oppressive autocratic state.
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Their oppressive rule has ignited a revolution.
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A propulsive video vision (kudos to multimedia designer Cinthia Chen) shows the bewildering, emotionally oppressive social-media reaction to a death.
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“The fight against oppressive moralistic institutions,” he says, meaningfully, “is something I found quite fascinating.
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  Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird duet whispered vocals, and where Depeche Mode brought a powerful crescendo to their 1993 original, this cover maintains a gloomy, oppressive soundscape with the addition of electric guitar layers toward the outro.
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The iPad Pro screens can also get a little brighter, which can be good when you're in bright outdoor environments or under oppressive fluorsecent lights in an office.
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Both are in the Arden Forest, in flight from an oppressive urban regime.
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This is an achievement in visual design that extends beyond the ageing process of 32-bit graphics, or the confines of fixed camera angles, which frame oppressive pre-rendered backdrops.
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They are now asking others around the country to join their suit seeking unspecified punitive damages, lawyers fees and an injunction restraining 'Apple from continuing to commit its illegal and unfair violations of privacy,' saying it was 'malicious, oppressive and willful' in deploying the AirTags despite security concerns.
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It basically meant don’t fall for the bull crap the oppressive society feeds you to try and make you feel lesser.
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Sometimes the tensions involve geopolitics: John Paul championed a people’s movement against oppressive state power in Poland while opposing people’s movements against oppressive state power in Central America.
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“So if I’m in a racist environment, if I’m in a sexist environment, if I’m in an oppressive environment, I guess that makes me feel like an impostor.
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The jailed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was also singled out for a special award “for his dogged bravery as an artist, and for the humanity and beauty of a body of work created under the most oppressive circumstances.
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Based on the 2013 video game, The Last of Us is a post-apocalyptic series following Ellie and Joel, played by Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal, as they attempt to break out of an oppressive quarantine zone.
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Imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was arrested over the summer amid a broader crackdown on artists across the country and is serving out a six-year prison sentence, was recognized “for his dogged bravery as an artist, and for the humanity and beauty of a body of work created under the most oppressive circumstances.
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And again, the Chinese are extremely good at doing this stuff, because they’ve been under a system that has been so over-the-top oppressive in what it censors for so long.
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Levin has deep experience concentrated in network security, as well as research focused on evading web censorship from oppressive regimes such as Russia, Iran and others.
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From there, Garland wryly toys with horror tropes to explore guilt, grief and the oppressive weight of the male world.
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It’s not oppressive to know how to do one of life’s most important tasks really well, it’s impressive.
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The sci-fi game revolving around space adventurer Samus Aran presented a dense environment pocketed with secrets around every corner and an oppressive sense of creeping isolation.
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Both luxury and oppressive heat are synonymous with the city of Dubai.
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But those nations that had stood behind us after 9/11 had records far better than those of hostile, oppressive regimes like Iran and Syria.
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“Pink Card” follows three generations of women as they go underground and undercover to defy Iran’s ban on women at soccer stadiums, where at any point they may be turned in to Iran’s oppressive morality police.
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   Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has given its stamp of approval to some of the most vile, oppressive practices ever implemented by the U.
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Special Award 3: Jafar Panahi, for his dogged bravery as an artist, and for the humanity and beauty of a body of work created under the most oppressive circumstances.
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Lance Bass has been unable to get in touch with his old friend Britney Spears since the termination of her oppressive conservatorship and claims she still has a “wall around her” preventing access.
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Hollywood has gone all-in for heavy audio, notably 2017’s Dunkirk, which was so oppressive that it seemed to drive some patrons from the theater.
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His mother, played by Julianne Nicholson (who, after “Blonde,” is cornering the market on oppressive moms), is a dowdy doomsayer, while his father (Toby Huss) is an angry crumbum factory worker who thinks Al should come to work at the factory — it’s a running joke that no one knows what the factory makes — and treats his son’s dream like a flower he wants to crush.
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The cold grays of its sci-fi levels and browns of the fantasy-inspired environements combines with the lighting to create an oppressive atmosphere.
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AdvertisementVan Orden has also tweeted that Democrats are using the same techniques that have “been used historically by the most oppressive and criminal regimes in world history,” and more recently said that while “there are many God-fearing Christians who are Democrats, there’s not a single God-fearing Christian that is a leftist.
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As a woman in an oppressive relationship, Kendrick sheds her comedic mannerisms, capturing the emotional seesaw of abuse, from delicate fragility to unsteady assurance and back again.
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There’s no mention of the ANC or the names of any of South Africa’s white prime ministers - Mandela is simply introduced as being part of a generic resistance against an oppressive white minority government that is always headed up by Earl Carpenter’s nameless Prime Minister.
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Despite temperatures in the high 80s Fahrenheit and oppressive humidity, she spent more than 20 minutes in a non-air conditioned VF8 with an entrepreneur who she said sold his infotainment-focus business to a top Tier 1 supplier.
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Diablo IV: dark, brutal, oppressive… Metal as Hell With a name like “Diablo” you know what you’re getting with the franchise.
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Back at Eros, a big Argentina flag drapes over the liquor cabinet in the clubhouse restaurant, as fans whir in the oppressive heat of December.
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Media caption, Home video of Archie features in Harry and Meghan documentaryAre Prince Harry and Meghan the victims of an oppressive royal system? Or are they the millionaire moaners of Montecito?However the public views their TV show, there will be one set of delighted viewers - and that's in Buckingham Palace and the rest of the Royal Family.
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Ominous thunderclouds hovered over the majestic Steel Stacks, but the threatening skies brought no precipitation — only a warm breeze which was a welcome relief from the oppressive summer night.
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“These regulations are so extremely oppressive that they create a fear for anyone to pick up the slightest pebble for fear of government prosecution,” wrote Kansas resident Bradford Davenport, an instructor in a program for “future rockhounds” through the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies.
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In countries with oppressive regimes, Tor can literally mean the difference between life and death.
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Although his plays take place under the oppressive umbrella of societal and institutional racism that has bedeviled this country since its founding, he never defaulted to the all-too-easy out of “blaming whitey.
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Long-lost twins fight against an oppressive government in a fantasy world.
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Buy on AmazonBookshopRead more: “The Crisis That Nearly Cost Charles Dickens His Career,” by Louis MenandFrom Our PagesWhat's So Funny?by David Sipress (Mariner)NonfictionIn this memoir, Sipress describes his dreamy but sometimes oppressive childhood on the Upper West Side, and how he defied the expectations of his immigrant, business-man father to become a cartoonist.
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Sparked by this curious duality, the artist’s photoseries considers: ‘What are members of the Taliban, known for its oppressive policies towards women, like in private with their wives?’ ‘I ‘photographed’ various Taliban fighters and their wives in this photoseries that aims to create an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the men that make up the forces now occupying Afghanistan.
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From the perspective of those who see political, economic, social, and oppressive aspects of society as causing widespread psychological harm, what psychiatry calls the “societal burden of mental disorders” is really the mental burden of societal disorders.
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It was our family of three’s main shelter, a 16-foot diameter amusement park for Jojo and her buds, a place to escape the oppressive smoke that choked our hometown in southern Oregon, and a perfect jumping-off point for dozens of glorious hikes, runs, and surf sessions.
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Hidden Letters (PBS) For centuries, women in China forced into oppressive marriages wrote a private language among themselves, called Nushu.
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Their oppressive rule has ignited a revolution.
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First, she sets out to tell the story of Goldin’s life, from her oppressive childhood in a loveless Jewish family, riven by her older sister’s traumatic suicide, through her early years taking pictures, when, through tumults of both joy and suffering, she matured as an artist, toward her ascent as one of the most important photographers of her generation.
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Available on HuluAvailable now on DVD and Blu-ray “Daisies” is a classic of the Czech New Wave, made in the mid-1960s by Vera Chytilová, who channeled her frustration with oppressive authoritarianism into an avant-garde comedy about two young women who overindulge in sensual pleasures and joyously defy any attempts at domestication.
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There’s a version of this game that is a slog – think back to something like Silent Hill, where the awkward gameplay and comparatively lacklustre graphics contributed to the oppressive terror – but Ghostwire: Tokyo is never not fun to play.
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That game, a fascinating blend of genre, tone, and style, also draws explicitly from the late Nineties era of 3D, but presents us with something far less oppressive than the other titles we've discussed so far.
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Public anger over her death has combined with a range of grievances against the Islamic Republic's oppressive regime to fuel the demonstrations.
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Still, he said, “The oppressive Iranian regime will likely manage to survive these protests.
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Getty "I still feel bad for her," Federline says, but then explains the reason he didn't help Spears escape from the oppressive court-appointed arrangement was out of concern for their sons.
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The injunction requires the company to stop “employing oppressive child labor” and to comply with a Labor Department investigation into the practice.
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It is a text alive with possibility; people have read into it metaphors for liberation from oppressive regimes, from materialism, from the cold war.
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) What does it really mean to be living under an oppressive regime like the Empire if you’re just a mechanic living on a backwater? “Andor” fulfills the promise of “The Last Jedi,” which strongly suggested that the franchise needed to evolve beyond its original characters and reframe how we saw “Star Wars.
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We learn to live and tolerate the various personalities that inhabit our subconscious, until we get at some resolution as in Open Your Wings and Fly, in which Bonello exhorts us to stem the tide of doubt and helplessness welling deep inside each and every one of us, by taking the initiative and flinging ourselves to freedom from oppressive thoughts.
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“Presley has become a symbol of all that was oppressive to the black experience in the Western Hemisphere,” Bertrand writes in his book.
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Grinds and tricks are all present as you rollerblade around Tokyo-to, but you’ll also be spraying graffiti around the city to mark your gang’s presence, and continued defiance of the oppressive police force.
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Dominic’s brute of a policeman father, Peadar (Gary Lydon), is oppressive in public as well as vicious and perverse to his son behind closed doors.
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In the first half of Prodigy Season 1, the crew of the Protostar is in a part of the galaxy that feels more like the oppressive realm Star Wars’ heroes face.
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WATCH A dystopian future (although some might argue it’s frighteningly edging closer to reality) where the few fertile women left in the oppressive Republic of Gilead are mercilessly used as breeding surrogates for wealthy elites.
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While Elvis faced abuse from his manager, the Colonel, Britney faced assault and oppressive control from her own father, Jamie Spears.
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“I’m not naïve enough to think that a system that is unequal and oftentimes oppressive — yes, still, very much so — is going to change overnight,” Ms.
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Estimates can vary in countries with inefficient, closed markets with such issues as oppressive regulations and tariffs, black markets, and political problems impacted a regular business cycle.
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In the film, Binoche’s Vianne Rocher is looked down upon as a single mother, and she stirs controversy when she decides to sell her chocolates in the middle of the Lent season, as well as on Sunday, tempting the village residents and angering the oppressive mayor (Molina).
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There is no easy answer, but: selling ESPN is priority one, and two, possibly unloading the cruise business as well are the only realistic moves to get out from under oppressive debt at a faster pace.
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Perhaps Mendes simply wants to place us in this world and let the oppressive atmosphere take over, à la something by Tsai Ming-liang.
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SE7EN takes place in an unnamed, crumbling metropolis of perpetual precipitation and endless blight—an oppressive environment where hope goes to die.
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But his creative unconventionality probably owes more to his early life experience of his father’s financial vagaries and the overarching domineering effect of contemporary Ireland’s oppressive social mores, replete with church-state collusive entwinement.
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And they will bring more of them — scouring the country for honest small businesses (like Cedar Point Nursery) that claim to be menaced by oppressive red tape.
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This idea, that Mormonism is at heart an oppressive and violent religion whose mainstream adherents are ever perched on the brink of radicalization, runs through the series—and the show commits to its thesis.
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That is not to say India can escape extreme heat, with its tropical humidity contributing to oppressive and dangerous conditions.
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The focus of her research is how society shapes the concepts we use to understand the world — concepts like reality and authenticity, which are often marshaled in oppressive ways.
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As he did so ingeniously with “Pan’s Labyrinth” and the Spanish Civil War, del Toro explores fantasy, myth and childhood in a time of oppressive fascism; the specks of light that escape the darkness.
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By the end of the play, however, he declares his opposition to all forms of oppressive power, even as his relationships are rocked by loss and betrayal.
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Despite the cyberpunk genre’s dystopian environments, oppressive atmosphere, and human augmentations, most cyberpunk media tends to be light on the violence.
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At the same time, you cannot deny he does his best with what he has got, making the apartment in some scenes feel almost oppressive and like a prison, depending on the situation and the characters interacting with each other in the moment.
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Spears told a court investigator in 2016 that her conservatorship had become "an oppressive and controlling tool against her.
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Rose and Lissa, Vampire Academy VAMPIRE ACADEMY — “TBD” Episode 102 — Pictured: (l-r) — (Photo by: Jose Haro/Peacock) Vampire Academy isn’t just a story about supernatural beings and not oppressive regimes that are not so subtle social commentary, it’s a story about friendship.
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The sons of movie stars may feel the oppressive pressure of having famous fathers, but to Norma Jeane, they at least know exactly who they are.
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  And yet, French does not, and will not fit in this oppressive system, as much as he tries to restrain himself from his sexual impulses.
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