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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So it was oppressively hot inside.

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