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Discover LudwigThe phrase "autocratic master" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a person who exercises absolute power or control in a domineering manner, often in a leadership or authoritative context.
Example: "The autocratic master ruled the organization with an iron fist, leaving no room for dissent or debate."
Alternatives: "authoritarian leader" or "dictatorial figure".
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THE BRIDGE WAS the first in New York overseen by Robert Moses, the autocratic "master builder" who managed projects from the Cross Bronx Expressway to the United Nations.
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Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, is a master of this autocratic approach, as I saw during my recent trip to Hungary.
Akira Kurosawa, the master film maker known as "the emperor" for his autocratic conduct on set, and his leading actor, Toshiro Mifune, nicknamed "the wolf" after his lupine features in youth, made 16 pictures together from 1948 to 1965, including such classics as "Seven Samurai" and "Throne of Blood".
Historical research over recent years has revealed that the ship bore one of his personal royal mottos – 'Une sanz pluis' (borrowed from a French version of the Iliad) – meaning literally 'one and no more', expressing the king's ultra-autocratic political belief that he alone, by divine right, was absolute master of England.
Since gaining independence from their former colonial masters, it's been a rough ride with mostly autocratic regimes supported and backed militarily by the major powers.
Yet the narrator notices that the inhabitants of the great house take a deep interest in Dora's fate, particularly its misshapen young master, whose own "bone house" seems to lodge within its very form the sins of his autocratic father.
Jenkins writes, "The obsession with the superbeing helps account for the messianic and autocratic tendency among some occult groups, which were all too willing to acclaim particular individuals as incarnate masters who would usher in a glorious new age".
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