self-suppression

She wanted to ask again when she was eleven, but she'd begun that process of self-suppression.

The Dummy's Guide to Marriage Proposals J.A. Pak 2011

The language enabling her to speak was also a kind of self-suppression.

Nancy Spero: no pity 2011

She shows how, despite much self-sacrifice and self-suppression, Alice Gibbens actually survived, almost thrived in this role.

The Admirable Mrs. James Colm T&243;ib&237;n 2009

Once this phrase takes root in the American psyche it will by its very nature induce a self-suppression of the American peoples basic right of Free Speech.

Think Progress » Fox News Pushing “Criminalization of Politics” Talking Point 2005

This young fellow held his life in his hands, as it were — one of the great army who made their living out of self-suppression and respectability, with a hundred ready to step into his shoes at his first slip.

The White Monkey 2004

Thus the reader would see the world through her eyes, but somehow see her too, despite her efforts at self-concealment and self-suppression, in ways she could not see herself.

The Master Colm Tóibín 2004

In a state of self-suppression, he went through into the garden.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

The cruel necessity of self-suppression was present to his mind, while the tears were pouring over his cheeks.

Armadale 2003

It requires an inordinate amount of energy, of course, to maintain the stern rigidities of self-suppression and constriction.

Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

This process was not one of self-suppression, but instead the development of the ability to withdraw from those situations where intolerable stresses might develop.

A Renegade Psychiatrist's Story Rosenfels, Paul 1979