Example sentences for: repressed

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  • If anyone was not in a position to give us insight into the corrosive vacuity of our culture it's Allen, who's so out of touch that he reportedly cast Kirstie Allen in his last film, Deconstructing Harry , without ever having seen Cheers , and whose idea of sexual audacity in his new one is to have a hooker (Bebe Neuwirth, another actress he never saw on Cheers ) teach a repressed hysteric (Judy Davis) how to give a blow job by sliding a banana in and out of her mouth.

  • Another cluster (cluster 73) consists largely of genes that were sharply repressed in response to environmental stresses [ 2, 44].

  • The dorsal spinal cord marker Pax7 is normally repressed by low concentrations of Hh [ 22 ] . Pax7 expression was extinguished by 1-10 nM agonist (Figure 2b,c,d,e,f).

  • Ben is a successful American financier who has repressed the memory of his unhappy Jewish childhood.

  • The case was thrown out a few years back, but the question remains: What if these so-called repressed memories are simply the product of the power of psychoanalytic persuasion?


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