Sentence examples for rather domineering from inspiring English sources

Far from being the distant rather domineering father of the Sound of Music, Johannes says he was "a very charming man, generous, open, and not the martinet he was made out to be both in the stage play and in the film.

He was a rather domineering father at times.

Parrots known for being aggressive (not mean necessarily, but rather, domineering): Amazons.

Each time he portrayed America as a respectful senior partner rather than a domineering chief executive; he asked nations to take responsibility for their own destiny, and they loved it.

Senior leaders in academia can sometimes be rather "alpha": aggressive and domineering.

The Greshams are run by the domineering and rather unpleasant Lady Arabella (Rebecca Front), who somehow has raised a kind and considerate son, Frank Harry Richardsonn) (also in photo above).

They are kept in line by the dominant – often domineering – figure of Lafontaine.

The process is different from the domineering conspiracies now dominating.

With his height of more than six feet, his head always held high, a slightly aquiline nose, a firm and well-formed mouth under a light moustache, a square chin, an imposing, domineering, set face, noble rather than tender, monumental rather than human, he had something of Apollo and of Jupiter…Nicholas was unquestionably the most handsome man in Europe.

The pair also shamelessly play up to the version of "Briddishness" that Americans love: stentorian, even domineering, but also rather camp and twinkly.

Ensler was born in a middle-class suburb of New York 60 years ago, to a rather glacial housewife and a domineering corporate executive who began abusing her when she was a few years old.