Sentence examples for seigneur over from inspiring English sources
The royals exercise their droit du seigneur over people by "harvesting" them for an anti-aging cream.
He seduces and bullies everyone, drops actors from the script at will, exercises droit du seigneur over the women in the company, and, in general, acts as if he were God incarnate, which, for all practical purposes, he is.
Joanne Heffernan, a rival clique's queen bee – dealing out casual humiliation even to her acolytes and claiming virtual, if not actual, droit du seigneur over any boy she fancies – is an absolute masterpiece of vulnerable cruelty.
Late at night, Jack hides in the closet as "Old Nick" (Deadwood's Sean Bridgers), a bearded, bespectacled, nauseatingly self-pitying middle-aged loner-loser, comes to exercise droit de seigneur over Joy.
Why on earth do we tolerate this notion that Moscow has some droit de seigneur over countries in its periphery, or even over entire ethnic lands within its borders that never chose to be part of Moscow's internal empire?
"The Count, having renounced his droit du seigneur, his absolute power over his subjects, is trying illicitly to re-establish it.
Michael Beaumont remained seigneur.
A renunciation of droit du seigneur.
It's more a sense of droit du seigneur.
The bourgeois were, therefore, subject to a king or seigneur.
"He regards himself as a kind of feudal seigneur.
