power-loving
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The former manager Earl Weaver, the power-loving patriarch of the Orioles’ dugout, would have loved this team.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2014
I submit that the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suave, power-loving President Carlos Arroyo del Rio had decreed a national election on June 2-3.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the person who exercised most quiet power in the country was the lawyer, who was generally at the head of the administration; and occasionally a power-loving court preacher.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
And in that day we must look for men to meet the false cry of both sides--"gentlemen unafraid" who will neither be the money-hired butlers of the rich nor power-loving panderers to the poor.
From Modern American Prose Selections by Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson)
