[ adj ] characterized by or showing the suppression of impulses or emotions <adj.all> her severe upbringing had left her inhibiteda very inhibited young man, anxious and ill at ease their reactions were partly the product of pent-up emotions repressed rage turned his face scarlet
No other society in history has done as much to advance a repressed racial minority.
Bulgaria has followed its East European neighbors in promising to remodel the Interior Ministry, which is responsible for the police agencies that have repressed the people with survellience and force.
He analyzed himself, digging like an archaeologist past layers of his own repressed memories.
Soviet-led East bloc troops repressed the movement that same year and Dubcek was subsequently ousted.
Strikes used to be brutally repressed and hushed up, but this year miners' strikes have generally ended within days with government concessions.
International organizations and opposition leaders said he brutally repressed any opposition.
Foreign tourists emerging from Burma told reporters that many Burmese, repressed for 26 years, found parallels with the Philippines.
Mr. Milosevic turned the tables on the Albanians in Kosovo, repressing them as they had allegedly repressed the Serbs.
The thrust of research by Eysenck and psychologist Ronald Grossarth-Maticek is that repressed emotions and hopelessness may lead to cancer, and hostility and aggression to heart disease.
She told me it was not only about 'the repressed question of gender'.
Many of us think of Victorians as sentimental, repressed, dull and dressed in black.
"He repressed us for years and then he humiliated us by giving up without a fight," said taxi driver Pedro Hernandez. "I never supported him, but he should have fought." There was no final power play and Gen.
Albania's Communist rulers have given hints of reform and are gradually losing control of the 3.2 million citizens they repressed for half a century.
Government is not aware of any trade union leaders or priests being repressed in this country," Hoyte said in Tuesday's message.
That December, Soviet troops deployed to help the Afghan government fight Moslem fundamentalist guerrillas, and Iran in 1981 repressed the Tudeh Communist Party.
Mr. Nunn, taking his cue both from the text and the temper of the times, has stressed the repressed sexuality of the play.
Shem Bitterman's "Night-Side" was an extended monologue featuring actress Pamela Gien as a repressed Boston woman running a flower shop and living as much in her fantasies and memories as in her everyday life.
Gwion Thomas sang strongly as the Elder Son. Alan Watt might have found more paternal warmth as the father, but James Oxley was affecting as the repressed younger son.
Although he was apparently emotionally repressed in his everyday life, his paintings are astonishingly passionate.
At times, they repressed the minorities' efforts to maintain their own cultural, linguistic and religious traditions.
In "Alice" he cast his lover Mia Farrow as a mopey, mousy, repressed wife of a philandering millionaire.
"My father also was repressed," he added. "In 1932 he was arrested with a couple of friends.
Shipyards where goods made by repressed labor abroad undercut organized labor at home.
Fonda is Harriet, a repressed self-described spinster who leaves her mother and her life to work as a governess for a wealthy Mexican family.
The Balkan nation was dominated by the Communists since just after World War II, when the Communists executed, imprisoned and repressed their political opponents.
Kuwait's citizens enjoyed far more rights than Mr. Hussein's bitterly repressed population of 14 million.
While he warns that Brazil is in a state of "repressed hyperinflation," Mr. Bacha says a successful outcome on these fronts would help reverse inflationary expectations.
Throughout the year, they vacationed together and always traveled together (Mr. Powers concludes that we will never know if rumors of homosexuality were true, or if the two men shared a repressed passion for one another).