When his grandparents died, his life became traumatic and began to act tyrannically and oppressively. Summers are often hot and oppressively humid, bordering on subtropical. Lowland Hispaniola is generally oppressively hot and humid, with temperatures averaging . Summers here are oppressively hot and humid, with a July average of . For the most part, slaves were treated harshly and oppressively during the Roman republican period. The fight was a punishing display on both sides under oppressively hot conditions. He ruled oppressively and nearly bankrupted Mali with his lavish spending. Paul Goldberger of "the New York Times" criticized the building's architecture as "oppressively banal". In 1221, however, Gruffydd was stripped of these lands for ruling them too oppressively. The use of many strong straight lines culminates in oppressively ordered, rectilinear architecture. They also won DCI South on an oppressively hot day in Birmingham. Andrews regarded Lee as "oppressively religious", and resolved to ask Marshall for his recall. People forget how oppressively right-on everything was around 1989.