domineeringin a sentence
- Even now, as he sits there fiddling with some kind of plastic box, he's easily ignored in the presence of his large and domineering companions.† (source)
- Emma Adler's mother was Emma Walthour Morel, a large and domineering woman known around town as "Big Emma."† (source)
- — proud and very domineering, the sort of witch who would have been mortified to produce a Squib—† (source)
- That a girl so brittle and domineering should be brought this low by a couple of nineyear-old boys seemed wondrous to Briony, and it gave her a sense of her own power.† (source)
- Trying not to be intimidated by the fierce domineering look he got from her, he ordered the soldiers to inspect the ranch.† (source)
- When he came into our alley, he held his head high and spoke in domineering tones.† (source)
- All day he lay there listening to the silence of huddled trees with only a domineering black hen for company.† (source)
- Then there's the domineering Kennedy Airport air traffic controllers ordering the planes around.† (source)
- Her life had gotten bound up with a domineering man, and so she shrank from the challenge her sisters were giving her.† (source)
- I had very low self-esteem as a child, which I kept with me for many, many years; and even now I don't want to be around anyone who is domineering or pushing me around because it makes me nervous.† (source)
- Someone less original than Clara would have tired of her sister-inlaw's excessive pampering and constant worry, or have succumbed to her domineering and meticulous nature.† (source)
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- He rebelled against his domineering father, dropped out of school at the age of fifteen, and left home.† (source)
- Each time the fall of a city like Naples, Rome or Florence seemed imminent, Major — de Coverley would pack his musette bag, commandeer an airplane and a pilot, and have himself flown away, accomplishing all this without uttering a word, by the sheer force of his solemn, domineering visage and the peremptory gestures of his wrinkled finger.† (source)
- Cindy repressed an urge to hug the cranky; domineering editor right on the bull pen floor.† (source)
- When she arrived at Millennium's offices, Modig found that she liked the self-confident and slightly domineering woman with the dimples and shock of short blond hair.† (source)
- Growing up, he took orders from his domineering father and looked up to his charismatic older brother.† (source)
- The ground beyond sloped up gently to a landscape of low rolling hills and fields, then abruptly shifted to a domineering ridge of plateaus that rose straight up from the valley floor.† (source)
- A masterful person is a dominant, domineering person, but a masterly piece of work is masterly.† (source)
- She was uninterested in towering, square-jawed men with huge domineering faces, who were to be bred like horses with horse-like women.† (source)
- He referred to Jews as "an elite people, sure of itself, domineering," and the rupture was complete.† (source)
- Like most sons of domineering men, I had a compulsive need to test the quality of my manhood by marching resolutely into the territory he had carefully marked out as his own.† (source)
- Again the voice was not loud so much as chillingly domineering, scathing, irruptive.† (source)
- She dreaded hearing him speak, because now there was a new tone in his voice: familiar, half-insolent, domineering.† (source)
- Her mother is opinionated and domineering.
- a domineering personality
- He was very domineering and could be as mean as a stepped-on copperhead sometimes.† (source)
- When they are away from their families — in different contexts — older siblings are no more likely to be domineering and younger siblings no more likely to be rebellious than anyone else.† (source)
- In recent years, for example, there has been much interest in the idea that one of the most fundamental factors in explaining personality is birth order: older siblings are domineering and conservative, younger siblings more creative and rebellious.† (source)
- General Dreedle's great, red domineering face was gnarled with perplexity and oaken with awesome resolution.† (source)
- She had grown up in a second-generation Sicilian family in which her father, a shoemaker, was a fierce and domineering presence.† (source)
- Nor was she domineering, nor was she tyrannical.† (source)
- He is acrid, suspicious, domineering, difficult (I am comparing him with Percival).† (source)
- He began speaking in a loud, rather domineering voice.† (source)
- Then people might say she was tyrannical, domineering, masterful, if they chose; she did not mind.† (source)
- They alone were deaf to that persistent voice, now grumbling, now patronizing, now domineering, now grieved, now shocked, now angry, now avuncular, that voice which cannot let women alone, but must be at them, like some too-conscientious governess, adjuring them, like Sir Egerton Brydges, to be refined; dragging even into the criticism of poetry criticism of sex; [*1] admonishing them, if they would be good and win, as I suppose, some shiny prize, to keep within certain limits which the gentleman in question thinks suitable—'....female novelists should only aspire to excellence by courageously acknowledging the limitations of their sex'.† (source)
- She said you were domineering and rude.† (source)
- Grace had grown too possessive, domineering and selfish.† (source)
- They were both embarrassed, and to relieve her feeling she became harsh and domineering.† (source)
- Servile and fawning as he had been before, he was now as domineering and bellicose.† (source)
- They say that Glorvina gives herself airs and that Peggy herself is ill tolerably domineering.† (source)
- She has been domineered over hitherto by vulgar intellects.† (source)
- There is something very sad in the extinction of a family of renown, even if it was fierce, domineering, feudal renown.† (source)
- Put that along with her resentment of Higgins's domineering superiority, and her mistrust of his coaxing cleverness in getting round her and evading her wrath when he had gone too far with his impetuous bullying, and you will see that Eliza's instinct had good grounds for warning her not to marry her Pygmalion.† (source)
- Old Mrs. Mingott had always professed a great admiration for Julius Beaufort, and there was a kind of kinship in their cool domineering way and their short-cuts through the conventions.† (source)
- Jett's domineering way might be responsible for the discontent of his wife and the taciturnity of his men.† (source)
- The cruelest things in the world, she thought, seeing them clumsy, hot, domineering, hypocritical, eavesdropping, jealous, infinitely cruel and unscrupulous, dressed in a mackintosh coat, on the landing; love and religion.† (source)
- They are not loyal, they are only servile; not dutiful, only sheepish; not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self-respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not truthful at all—liars every one of them, to the very backbone of their souls.† (source)
- It pleased me to domineer over her, and she generally submitted to my tyranny rather than risk a hand-to-hand encounter.† (source)
- Aziz was friendly and domineering.† (source)
- Also I carried the dirk in a sheath at my hip, sailor-fashion, and maintained toward Thomas Mugridge a constant attitude which was composed of equal parts of domineering, insult, and contempt.† (source)
- She was getting impatient; the whole of her being was setting positively, undeniably, domineeringly brushing aside all this unnecessary trifling (Peter Walsh and his affairs) upon that subject which engaged her attention, and not merely her attention, but that fibre which was the ramrod of her soul, that essential part of her without which Millicent Bruton would not have been Millicent Bruton; that project for emigrating young people of both sexes born of respectable parents and setting them up with a fair prospect of doing well in Canada.† (source)
- In spite of his fear at the reckoning he must expect to pay for what he had done, he could see that it had been an object-lesson to me, and he became more domineering and exultant.† (source)
- I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but ... there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.† (source)
- Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so.† (source)
- In the Middle Ages, testamentary power had, so to speak, no limits: amongst the French at the present day, a man cannot distribute his fortune amongst his children without the interference of the State; after having domineered over a whole life, the law insists upon regulating the very last act of it.† (source)
- So our general, settled on his property of two thousand souls, lives in pomp, and domineers over his poor neighbors as though they were dependents and buffoons.† (source)
- Well, we MUST be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering; and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one's interest was not the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.† (source)
- Franz was less enthusiastic; but the count exercised over him also the ascendency a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering.† (source)
- They were isolated in their own country, and their race only constituted a colony of troublesome aliens in the midst of a numerous and domineering people.† (source)
- Let her go, and the sooner the better; she won't be trying to domineer over me again in a hurry.† (source)
- 'I shall, soon enough, be put out, though, if anybody tries to domineer it over me: and so I give you notice, master.† (source)
- Rather spoilt and domineering, and decidedly vulgar, but, on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old blackguard of a woman.]† (source)
- Her quiet eye discerned that Henchard's tigerish affection for the younger man, his constant liking to have Farfrae near him, now and then resulted in a tendency to domineer, which, however, was checked in a moment when Donald exhibited marks of real offence.† (source)
- They certainly do not all exercise the same influence in the federal councils, but no one of them can hope to domineer over the rest, or to treat them as its inferiors or as its subjects.† (source)
- Let us hasten to say that in private the genial side descended to the level of the other, so that generally the indulgent man disappeared to give place to the brutal husband and domineering father.† (source)
- If Wakem were to meet him then, Mr. Tulliver would look straight at him, and the rascal would perhaps be forsaken a little by his cool, domineering impudence.† (source)
- 'I knew Mrs. Linton's nature to be headstrong and domineering,' cried I: 'but I didn't know that you wished to foster her fierce temper!† (source)
- The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with those domineering fortresses which guard the entrances to the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and the Propontis.† (source)
- Not that Mrs. Tulliver's feeble beseeching could have had this feather's weight in virtue of her single personality; but whenever she departed from entire assent to her husband, he saw in her the representative of the Dodson family; and it was a guiding principle with Mr. Tulliver to let the Dodsons know that they were not to domineer over him, or—more specifically—that a male Tulliver was far more than equal to four female Dodsons, even though one of them was Mrs. Glegg.† (source)
- This was especially to be remarked if any one attempted to impose upon, or domineer over, his favourite: he was painfully jealous lest a word should be spoken amiss to him; seeming to have got into his head the notion that, because he liked Heathcliff, all hated, and longed to do him an ill-turn.† (source)
- Amidst such humble scenes and associates George's early youth was passed, and the boy grew up delicate, sensitive, imperious, woman-bred—domineering the gentle mother whom he loved with passionate affection.† (source)
- To this, Radney replied with an oath, in a most domineering and outrageous manner unconditionally reiterating his command; meanwhile advancing upon the still seated Lakeman, with an uplifted cooper's club hammer which he had snatched from a cask near by.† (source)
- As the most distinguished partisans of the other side of the question are unable to surmount the obstacles which exclude them from power, they require some means of establishing themselves upon their own basis, and of opposing the moral authority of the minority to the physical power which domineers over it.† (source)
- It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf.† (source)
- This woman had a way of tyrannizing over Major Dobbin (for the weakest of all people will domineer over somebody), and she ordered him about, and patted him, and made him fetch and carry just as if he was a great Newfoundland dog.† (source)
- In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.† (source)
- Thus it seemed to be decreed by fate that Georgy was to domineer over everybody with whom he came in contact, and that friends, relatives, and domestics were all to bow the knee before the little fellow.† (source)
- Notoyrly, notoriously, Noyous, hurtful, Obeissance, obedience, Or, before, Orgule, haughtiness, Orgulist, haughtiest, Orgulite, pride, arrogance, Orgulous, proud, Other, or, Ouches, jewels, Ought, owned, Outcept, except, Outher, or, Out-taken, except, Over-evening, last night, Overget, overtake, Overhylled, covered, Over-led, domineered over, Overlong, the length of, Overslip, pass, Overthwart, adj.† (source)
- She was a domineering woman, who had trained her sons to march to her command.† (source)
- there standing when I asked her to hand me and I pointing at them I couldnt think of the word a hairpin to open it with ah horquilla disobliging old thing and it staring her in the face with her switch of false hair on her and vain about her appearance ugly as she was near 80 or a loo her face a mass of wrinkles with all her religion domineering because she never could get over the Atlantic fleet coming in half the ships of the world and the Union Jack flying with all her carabineros because 4 drunken English sailors took all the rock from them and because I didnt run into mass often enough in Santa Maria to please her with her shawl up on her except when there was a marriage on with al† (source)
- Is not the love of wealth as domineering and enterprising a passion as that of power or glory?† (source)
- Obey the bride, you that attend on her; Go to the feast, revel and domineer, Carouse full measure to her maidenhead, Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves: But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.† (source)
- The old man was alarmed and Zoraida too, for the Moors commonly, and, so to speak, instinctively have a dread of the Turks, but particularly of the soldiers, who are so insolent and domineering to the Moors who are under their power that they treat them worse than if they were their slaves.† (source)
- And I,— Forsooth, in love; I, that have been love's whip; A very beadle to a humorous sigh; A critic, nay, a night-watch constable; A domineering pedant o'er the boy, Than whom no mortal so magnificent!† (source)
- For the variety of behaviour in men that have drunk too much, is the same with that of Mad-men: some of them Raging, others Loving, others laughing, all extravagantly, but according to their severall domineering Passions: For the effect of the wine, does but remove Dissimulation; and take from them the sight of the deformity of their Passions.† (source)
- Now as Honour did not at all times agree with this doctrine, but would frequently break in upon the respect which the other demanded, Mrs Western's maid was not at all pleased with her company; indeed, she earnestly longed to return home to the house of her mistress, where she domineered at will over all the other servants.† (source)
- The Fairies also have their enchanted Castles, and certain Gigantique Ghosts, that domineer over the Regions round about them.† (source)
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