domineering
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Domineering responses to anxiety are associated with loss of empathy and delusions of grandeur.
From Economist • Jun. 14, 2018
Chu concludes, “Obstacles to the creative process litter the Chinese education landscape: Domineering teachers who discourage open questioning; exam metrics that keep children studying rather than exploring; social collectivism that promotes conformity.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2017
Domineering These responses assert authority and attempt to force the other person to withdraw, retreat, or submit.
From Time • Mar. 2, 2015
Domineering Frau Professor Gait is hated not only by her husband and her young American visitor, but by her young lover as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Domineering egotism, the assertion of greedy possessive rights, are out of place in the modern home.
From Little Essays of Love and Virtue by Ellis, Havelock
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