Sentence examples for overbear from inspiring English sources

Soon, though, Bouwer's attitude shifted: "It was like hot and cold taps: He tried to overbear me at first, but that didn't work, so then he tried being friendly".

Does the grandiosity of "Monument to Balzac" (for which there is a small study in the show) overbear?

While the bawdiness of the first two acts marginally overbears the tragedy of the third, Bodinetz puts on a timely production.

I love the one by Lawrence, though it overbears in projecting the writer's sensualist ethos.

Religion in America is much like Nature in the famous saying of Horace: "Nature, pitchfork it out how you may, keeps tumbling back in on you, slyly overbears your shying from it".

Among the things it overbears is our ability to believe in its reality.