Held back

Usage examples of repressed.

Shadow is not the only archetype to be repressed and projected, however.

Jinny was comparing him to an ancient cartoon character who was a cringing bootlicker, a toady, a completely repressed monosexual, and an unrequited lover.

If so, it seems plausible that repressed, unconscious, and preconscious mental processes that simply happen to be unconscious may, with training, be brought into the light of introspective awareness.

When monological thought turns nature into God, then spiritual liberation consists not in resurrecting a forgotten Spirit but in digging up a repressed sexuality.

Edward, who knew his keen sensibility and repressed quickness of temper, was not without fear, that on so delicate a mission his ardent feelings might carry him beyond the mark, and that, in endeavouring to serve a woman whom he loved with enthusiastic adoration, he might rouze the angry passions of her husband.

Despite his stealth, Salter was observed by a watcher across the street - a stooped man, who repressed a cackly laugh.

Beneath a mound of radiant blond curls, her green eyes sparkled with repressed amusement and her slightly rounded stomach trembled with laughter.

There, talking in a low tone to escape notice from anyone passing the door, he finally managed to unbottle the repressed questions.

It is on the look-out for an opportunity of being activated, and when that happens it succeeds in sending into consciousness a disguised and unrecognisable substitute for what has been repressed, and to this there soon become attached the same feelings of unpleasure which it was hoped had been saved by the repression.

Love thaws out our repressed feelings, and gradually these unresolved feelings begin to surface into our relationship.

As the terrible picture forced itself vividly across my imagination, I buried my face in my arms, and only with the greatest difficulty was it that I repressed the tears that welled to my eyes despite my every effort.

She repressed a shiver, and said she followed his drift about it being sort of silly to imply two well-known gunslicks would slap leather at the same time and just stand there.

She reminded me of a gypsy, and I sensed a gypsylike abandon in her nature that had been carefully repressed by years of enforced decorum.

Most of the time, men at Hawksbill Station tried not to speak about their families, preferring to keep those tormenting memories well repressed.

The same iron hermeticism with which he had revealed to no one but his mother the secret of his repressed passion meant that he did not tell anyone he was going away and did not say goodbye to anyone, but on the eve of his departure he committed, with full awareness, a final mad act of the heart that might well have cost him his life.