overmaster

Example Sentences

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It was a welcome reminder that even in the rankly toxic House of Representatives, sometimes the personal transcends the ideological and that civility and empathy can overmaster appearances.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2012

So much the preference of contrivance to labor overmaster the mastering desire to become rich.

From The Growth of Thought As Affecting the Progress of Society by Withington, William

The necessity of recovering it cooled for the moment the passion which had threatened to overmaster him.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various

The glory of the Indian summer is wholly ethereal; it belongs to the light and the air; and is a striking image and eloquent testimony of how far spirit can overmaster matter.

From A Red Wallflower by Warner, Susan

His sympathies were strongly with the South, but not so strongly as to overmaster his desire to retain his commission and its emoluments.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John