overmaster

Example Sentences

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He did teach physicians “to refuse to treat those who are overmastered by their diseases, realizing that in such cases medicine is powerless.”

From Washington Post

The reporters had at first been rather peevish at having been asked to risk their skins for old manuscripts, but they ended by being impressed by the scholar’s overmastering enthusiasm.

From The New Yorker

Nature demanded that the higher races overmaster and starve the lower.

From The Guardian

Lesbos, he wrote in an 1872 essay on the poet, was “the island of overmastering passions.”

From The New Yorker

Webster’s Dictionary defines passion as “an intense, driving or overmastering feeling of conviction” or “a strong desire for or devotion to some activity or concept”.

From Forbes