Sentence examples for making him over from inspiring English sources

So why, when it is the woman unduly influencing the man, do we use jokey terms such as "making him over", or "taking him in hand"?

He's a human being, like you, with feelings and desires of his own, and instead of making him over, why don't you get to know him as the man he is?

Her husband, Arthur, whom she had married when she was 23, was a disappointment to her, & she was not successful in making him over.

If Wilder had been a true moralist, he would have turned the camera away from the overreaching drag queen that Norma becomes as she falls in love with Joe and attempts to buy his love by making him over in a way that has to do not with who he is but with her idealized vision of a man of the nineteen-twenties.

Rightly, he felt it belittled his devotion to the poetic craft and made him over-solemn.

He makes him over-precise in his speech and movements, a devious man who knows that graciousness is both armor and weapon.

(Mr. Romney should know: his part-time residency in New Hampshire has made him, over time, something of an adopted son there).

Virtually everyone — blacks and white alike — wants to use him, to make him over in their own image, to turn him into a portent, a warning, a threat, a possibility.

Clark Gable, by contrast, had not grown up as an outdoorsman, but when the studio biographies made him over in that mold he took to it, and started actually hunting and fishing.

Try making him roll over by bringing the food close to his mouth, but don't let him eat it.

The water he'd gorged on was making him drunk all over again.