Sentence examples for overbearing behaviour from inspiring English sources

Mania is a state of undue and prolonged excitement that is evinced by accelerated, loud, and voluble speech; heightened enthusiasm, confidence, and optimism; rapid and disconnected ideas and associations; rapid or continuous motor activity; impulsive, gregarious, and overbearing behaviour; heightened irritability; and a reduced need for sleep.

We don't need a 'macho' culture (that word encompasses actions by both men and women in my book), we don't need overbearing behaviour to trump skill, and we do need to recognize that there are many different ways of approaching scientific challenges.

Another junta consideration is China's increasingly overbearing behaviour, which contrasts unfavourably with the attractive blandishments, real and potential, attendant on improved relations with India, Japan and others intent on curbing Beijing's ambitions.

A Downing Street police officer has told the high court how he was embarrassed by the childish and overbearing behaviour of former government chief whip Andrew Mitchell the night before Plebgate.

The strongest conservative argument against abortion is that the Supreme Court overstepped the mark by imposing a single solution on a diverse country; but since then the Republicans have used their temporary dominance in Washington to trample on states' rights.Such overbearing behaviour is not a monopoly of the right.

The historian David Kynaston has long been suspicious of the shenanigans of the modern City, comparing its power, and the obeisance paid to it until recently by governments, to the overbearing behaviour of certain trade unions in the 1960s and 1970s.

Complaints of "overbearing and loutish" behaviour by stormtroopers became common by the middle of 1933.

The first half seems at once over-plotted and over-simplistic: there are, for example, no unsympathetic female characters, and the overbearing masculine behaviour could be much more subtly drawn.

Overbearing, pretentious, madly repetitive".

Powerful, yet never overbearing.

Overbearing politicians came and went.