overmaster

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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

Only thus should Truth be followed, with an interest great enough to overmaster all fears as to whither she may lead and what she may disclose.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 by Various

Once more that unaccountable feeling of irritation seemed to overmaster her, the same sense of wrath and of injustice which had assailed her when she first spoke to him.

From Petticoat Rule by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

His heart beat nervously, the task before him seemed to overmaster him, and he shrank from it; with one hand he felt Jack’s letter, lying like an asp in his breast coat pocket.

From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles

Illusions which, though now in some measure dispelled, were long powerful enough to overmaster the mind of every politician, both speculative and practical, in Europe.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur