| What I see is something resembling a straightjacket, characterised by stability, rules and discipline. |
| We must try to prevent further violence and the doctor has sent to the hospital for a straightjacket. |
| Next, a scruffy-looking student enthusiastically volunteered to lace him into a straightjacket and secure him with padlocks and chains. |
| In this way, so the configurative theory tells us, a courtyard could be civilized without giving it an overtly formal straightjacket. |
| The simple, archaic gesture, a performance of downcast eyes and busy hands, puts across a feminist rereading of the woman's straightjacket. |
| Critics in those countries who compare the European Union to the old Soviet Union are confusing a jacket with a straightjacket. |