Sentence examples for overbearing control from inspiring English sources

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"Why must you keep me in a prison at night?" she trills to an overbearing control freak on Cruel Sexuality.

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The police investigation into Natalie's murder – the judge at Hemming's trial called him "overbearing, controlling, jealous" – is now the subject of a Channel 4 film, Catching a Killer; her death is, however, just one of many hundreds of homicides in which coercion and control are a significant factor within an intimate relationship that ends in catastrophe.

And that stereotype comes with another set of flattering adjectives like domineering, overbearing, controlling and smothering, but cannot exist without its equal and opposite: the weak, silent Jewish male.

Resource-rich but with faltering economy Burma is a resource-rich country but its economy is crippled by overbearing government control and ineffective policies.

At home my father was overbearing and controlling; at the track he was generous and expansive.

He called himself her mentor; she called him overbearing and controlling of her art.

Software is a scalable, high-margin business you don't need overbearing cost controls, you need innovators.

And I worried, as I had two years earlier, that the uninformed in my neighborhood would peg me as a controlling, overbearing mom who was turning her kid gay.

The magazine cover generated great outrage among many Americans, but black women found it particularly offensive since it employed the worst stereotypes of us found in our American pop culture; the ultra ethnic (afro wearing), aggressive, angry, radical, controlling, and overbearing black woman.

Regina's control over Storybrooke is overbearing and oppressive in the extreme.

On the other hand, clearly identifying your child's state of wellbeing can help you relax control and alleviate the tension of overbearing interference.

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