straitjacketed in a sentence
Examples
- Since both men are so straitjacketed by self-censorship, how could the debate have possibly advanced the story line?
- Yet here his subversive qualities appear to have been straitjacketed, along with his most potent weapon, his angular body language.
- Even straitjacketed, his face imprisoned in a grotesque hockey mask, he seems perfectly capable of talking you into swallowing your tongue.
- The jobless rate exceeds 12 percent ( nearly 5 million people ) in a sluggish, straitjacketed economy that is not creating any jobs.
- Jack was always kept straitjacketed, and was regularly injected with cocaine to keep him docile and dependant until he escaped after a month.
- In a style as innocuous as the Sunday funnies, they might be shown strung upside down, whipped, shrouded, straitjacketed or impaled.
- Gooding is straitjacketed by a script so determined to show Brashear as a plaster saint, he never comes across as a living, breathing man.
- I still remember being straitjacketed as a kid in a station wagon almost 40 years ago with three brothers and two sisters traveling through flat Kansas prairies.
- If he capitulates to his father, he will face living a claustrophobic, straitjacketed existence of paying lip service to values he doesn't share.
- Reporting for the job and finding the place locked, he climbs over the fence, whereupon he is straitjacketed by the guards and tossed into a cell.