heavy-handedness
Example Sentences
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District Judge David O. Carter, a no less colorful figure than Yagman, has built a reputation for judicial unorothodoxy bordering on heavy-handedness.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024
Though that’s perfectly valid in theory, the heavy-handedness is quite a surprise coming from Parks, whose greatest plays float at the midpoint between archetype and individual.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023
French police regularly clear makeshift migrant camps on France’s northern coastdrawing complaints of heavy-handedness from migrants and human rights groups.
From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2021
It says there were "multiple failings" in how both events were handled, despite an official report clearing the Met of heavy-handedness.
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021
He appealed strongly to all that was worst in Roman taste—its heavy-handedness, its admiration of verbal cleverness, its tendency towards brutality.
From Latin Literature by Mackail, J. W. (John William)
