ironfisted
Example Sentences
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Cassandra, the de-facto leader of the teens, is tenuously ironfisted.
From The New Yorker • May 22, 2019
Leonard Nimoy did it with a memorable turn as a goateed, ironfisted Mr. Spock in an original "Star Trek" episode that sent the Enterprise crew into a more bloodthirsty parallel universe.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2013
Szell's ironfisted discipline brooked no contradiction, and the musicians played for him as if their livelihoods -- if not their lives -- depended on it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Over and over, as if to exorcise the evil of Nicolae Ceausescu's ironfisted 24-year reign, national television last week replayed the taped record of his final ignominious hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
Occasionally ironfisted with local dissenters, he showed his formidable political skill in manipulating volatile local opinion over the Canal issue, leading to the 1977 treaties that were ratified�barely�by the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
