Sentence examples for it was authoritarian from inspiring English sources
Of the third who said it was authoritarian, quite a lot thought this a good thing.
The French far right was aesthetic before it was, or as much as it was, authoritarian.
His father, Count Monaldo, who had a nobleman's pride without the money to support it, was authoritarian and overprotective to a degree that now seems almost unbelievable.
The campaign to make people think before using the word (and basically stop it), launched this year by Sheryl Sandberg, and supported by lots of high-profile women including Condoleezza Rice, Michelle Obama and Beyoncé, was predictably met with the charge that it was authoritarian and, well, "bossy".
"It may not necessarily be communist, but it's authoritarian," Le Gresley offers.
But if the Mormon priesthood is profoundly democratic in procedure, it is authoritarian in other ways.
It's authoritarian: instead of working to persuade people with ideas, it manipulates them with name-calling and appeals to guilt.
It's authoritarian: instead of working to persuade people with ideas, it manipulates them with name-calling and appeals to guilt..
Nesbitt's take on English grammar is as whimsical as it is authoritarian, making this the kind of book that every imaginative, word-obsessed child should keep under her pillow.
It is authoritarian, sure, but it is capitalism gone wild.
