Day-to-day life in Japan can be oppressively rigid, and cosplay is a creative reaction against the pressures.

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And yet, what a starved, oppressively dull piece of motorized martyrdom it is.

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Huge, angry storm clouds have gathered outside and the air is oppressively humid.

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An oppressively hot day softened into a breezy summer night that was ample evidence of Greece's considerable charms, economic calamity or not.

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But the deep symbiosis of organized crime and an oppressively powerful state limited the independence of the gangsters and made it unnecessary to settle every difference with violence.

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At the same time he accused another big, closely held oil firm, Yukos, of dealing oppressively with minority shareholders in two of its main subsidiaries, by claiming the power to transfer assets out of the subsidiaries without proper shareholder approval.

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So it was oppressively hot inside.

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