overbearingness

Example Sentences

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“Running With Beto” touches lightly on O’Rourke’s strained relationship with his father, which went through a prickly phase of overbearingness matched by teen rebellion.

From Washington Post • May 27, 2019

Jean Asselborn, the foreign minister of Luxembourg, went further: "I can only warn Germany and France against a claim to power that shows a certain overbearingness and arrogance."

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2010

"That does not change the fact that it is his overbearingness which makes your path as though you trod on nettles,—for certainly I know it is so, though you will not say it!"

From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)

The very next day Mr. Prohack had a plutocratic mood of overbearingness, which led to a sudden change in his location—the same being transferred to Frinton-on-Sea.

From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold