Sentence examples for Overbearing man from inspiring English sources
Stewart is a brash, overbearing man.
Their father is a tough, overbearing man (3), which is made monstrously clear after Anna develops a passionate, unstoppable attraction (4) to Coop, the family's young hired man.
Kierkegaard's father was a devout and overbearing man, much given to supporting and terrorising his son ("He made my childhood an unparalleled torture," Kierkegaard wrote, "and yet was the most loving father").
Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, a large and often overbearing man who steered The Los Angeles Times along a similarly conservative path and who made almost as many enemies as Colonel McCormick, passed along the newspaper to his son, Harry Chandler, and grandson, Norman Chandler, in an unbroken century-long chain of right-wing Republican domination in Southern California.
Richardson shines, too, as an overbearing man who nevertheless feels conflicted about blocking Catherine's right to decide her own future.
I learned that when Roger was 18, he tried to separate from his dad, an overbearing man who was devoted to socialist politics and "high" culture.
The hypocrisy of overbearing men and women replace, in their fashion, the higher powers of the old tragedy.
In an effort to win a share of the work, fractious, overbearing men were for once ready to behave nicely towards one another.
Nathan Minter is one of those overbearing men who believe that success in their chosen professions makes them, without further effort, successful sons, husbands and fathers.
Next year will see the release of Nacho Vigalondo's curious monster-movie hybrid Colossal, in which Anne Hathaway's self-destructive protagonist discovers an absurd affinity with the Godzilla-type creature laying waste to south-east Asia across the globe – a connection that turns out to hinge on her fractious relations with overbearing men.
The great historian Irving Howe notes that the immigrant need to find an unoccupied or underserved niche shaped these often "vulgar, crude and overbearing" men.
