The wards were cleared of overbearing aunts, unruly children, enthusiastic colleagues and sniffy mothers-in-law. |
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I love traveling, but hate the overdetailed itineraries and overbearing travel agents that typically go with it. |
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The latter can be overbearing, it's true, but that's a central function of rock frontmen. |
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It was difficult for his cowered staff to stand up to this overbearing behaviour. |
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There were allegations of exclusivism, hurtful practices like shunning, as well as an overbearing doctrine of personal sin. |
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Despite being experienced enough to know not to underestimate his opponents, his overbearing confidence may prove his Achilles' heel. |
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Screaming vocals and an overbearing lead guitar are the main staple throughout the album. |
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Blonde hair that was teased and curled and laced with gems and chains served as a massive crown for this overbearing woman. |
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You can also meet excessively overbearing golfers who want to solve everything with an arrogant order. |
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Wilhemina is a rising surgeon who begrudgingly meets and greets inept blind dates to appease her overbearing mother. |
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The dictionary definition of arrogance suggests overbearing behavior based on inappropriate views. |
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I was wearing a festive but not overbearing reddish shirt and Keith was decked out in some sleek black duds. |
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The waiters, by the way, were exceptionally helpful without being overbearing, and really seemed to know what to advise. |
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This is a small, proud country existing in the shadow of a large, overbearing neighbour. |
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It promotes a large, bureaucratic, overbearing government state which is protected from free market competition. |
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A new survey has revealed that overbearing mothers-in-law are to blame for as many as one in five marriage breakdowns. |
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But like many young talents, he fell victim to an overbearing and ambitious parent, intent on living through his son. |
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Besides, with my hideous deformity and your overbearing mother, we'd only be punishing ourselves. |
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Who knew the overbearing Elliot had such a punched up hip-hop album in the works? |
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No one does this properly anymore, at least not without some overbearing sense of irony. |
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How could it not when Cuff is a pushy, overbearing writer for The Globe and Mail? |
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The core dynamic in each of these cases was hypothesized to be rebelliousness and a protest against overbearing parents. |
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Unfortunately they can often be abrasive and overbearing personality types. |
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His quaky, affected voice is so overbearing it strangles otherwise mostly harmless songs and inflates them to the extent of self-parody. |
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Heavy, overbearing guitars clash with feeble pianos, annoying violins, and misplaced horns. |
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She cannot help mentally comparing the handsome, strong and apparently sophisticated Pichandi to her rustic, overbearing husband. |
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The principal players include a seaweed salesman, his reluctant wife, his overbearing mother-in-law and her lunkheaded son. |
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His silk cravat suddenly felt as though it may choke him at any moment and his navy blue tailcoat seemed overbearing. |
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It was funny that two former fashion victims now find their former world overbearing and self-important. |
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While Scott concedes that she is somewhat overbearing, he understands what the character is all about. |
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Tom is London born and bred, which is clear from his sound, his voice, but it isn't London-y in an overbearing way either, which is nice. |
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My parents aren't the snoopy, overbearing kind that stop by to check on your laundry technique. |
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You could have an overbearing brat on your hands and it would not be the child's fault. |
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If a stranger solicited us who was too friendly or too overbearing, we would be offended. |
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Needless to say, the service was attentive, without being overbearing, and fitted in with the relaxed, classy atmosphere. |
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It also reduces the links between social democracy and overbearing bureaucracy. |
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He took on an overbearing and even stalkerish demeanor and she confronted him saying there would be no more interaction. |
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Subtle horns creak from enveloping static before becoming lost in an overbearing string arrangement. |
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It claimed that an overbearing and threatening management style was leading to staff stress, inefficiency and ill-health. |
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The letters show a devoted if overbearing husband who constantly chides his wife to write more often and to keep up her spirits. |
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Such a dangerous, overbearing contraption can no longer be relied upon to deliver the social contracts with its citizens that it once did. |
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One man enters the male-only space to escape a conflicted marriage with his overbearing, combative wife. |
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When you have an inbred arrogance, you are undoubtedly going to appear overbearing and rude. |
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The album is overflowing with sweet harmonies and guitar riffs and beats that are edgy without being overbearing. |
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Other doctors felt him arrogant, aloof and overbearing towards those whom he considered his intellectual inferiors. |
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In recent decades, his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of well intentioned but overbearing regulations. |
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Pursuing a feminist theme, though – put-upon womankind versus the thrusting, overbearing male – now seems, dare I say it, passé. |
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Even worse, my parents had turned this marvelous blessing into a wicked curse and an overbearing burden that I alone have to live with the rest of my life. |
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Her overbearing cuteness both charms and annoys her friends. |
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Neither demeaning themselves to meet low tastes, nor overbearing in their presentation, they fit in perfectly with their requirement as a typical TV presenter. |
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As students, they are grim-faced and punctuate their training with odd, guttural sounds, and as instructors they tend to be intensely rank-conscious and overbearing. |
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There's no auto-tune crooning or overbearing electronica background music. |
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It's the only point of interest in his excruciatingly drab life, which is rendered more unhappy by his incessant bullying at the hands of seven overbearing sisters. |
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The shape of the parging on the upper part of the building is too overbearing. |
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Many former employees described Masters as a demanding, overbearing micromanager who had no boundaries. |
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It carries its intelligence lightly, is never overbearing or flashy, and is devoid of obfuscation, provinciality and jargon. |
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Will he or she be patient with your mistakes, or will he or she be critical, overbearing, and dictatorial? |
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Aaron could only look back at the familiar silvery eyes that had softened, despite the overbearing burliness of the body beneath them, and try and read them. |
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What contempt, what overbearing simple-mindedness is in enclosed in that word! |
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The wine hits the palate with extraordinary density, unctuosity, and richness, yet it never comes across as heavy or overbearing. |
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Strive to be convincing, confident, and knowledgeable, but never preachy, superior, or overbearing. |
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For example, crews or teams that have an overbearing team leader can experience a steep authority gradient. |
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Clearly there is an important role for public authorities but it must not become overbearing. |
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Worn for recognition, economic reasons and esprit de corps, it also gave an overbearing impression. |
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This possibly discloses the overbearing influence of countries traditionally opposed to any restrictions on freedom of expression. |
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Gerstein's father, an overbearing judge and adamant German nationalist, instilled an unwavering patriotism in his children. |
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Most importantly, all of this takes place without managers having to exert overbearing control. |
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They serve to confirm that democracy and institutions need not be overbearing and that, sometimes wrongs can be righted. |
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I believe that'frekja', mixed with overbearing behaviour, is the cause of war. |
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An overbearing man, a man who was presumptuous, or vainglorious: these men were brassy offenders. |
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If he is not always affable and urbane, he at least is never truculent or overbearing. |
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Such a capable African state does not play an overbearing and dictatorial role in African societies. |
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At all levels, cunning teachers allied with overbearing students. |
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A Founder that is avoidant, is overbearing, is malfeasant, is distracted, is incompetent, is narcisstic will not succeed. |
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Insightful without being pedantic, learned but not overbearing, the book is full of humorous anecdotes while never shirking the factual responsibility of the historian. |
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Yes, the record of the 2000s looks better if you treat the bust as some kind of exogenous event caused by overbearing government. |
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He felt suffocated by village life and the ruling hand of his overbearing father. |
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Mr Cameron was able to forge a coalition with the Lib Dems precisely because both parties saw the state as overcentralised and overbearing. |
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Yet Mr Erdogan's critics say that, after a decade in government with weak opposition, AK has become arrogant and overbearing. |
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Helps overcome personal attacks, overbearing postures and decidedly partial points of view. |
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With no visible direction from above, the cast decide to amp up the volume and the broadness, but the results are more overbearing than energetic, more grotesque than funny. |
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The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour. |
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Loud, overbearing, and unseemly, he is the very personification of the human id in a mock turtleneck and gold chain. |
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The compact cat made one short, inconceivably fast motion, and the overbearing ferret jerked backward then collapsed to the pavement in a limp heap. |
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His father was near senility, his mother was overbearing, and the household was in financial straits. |
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With its lingering aromas of peach, apricot and delicate floral notes, Viognier seemed primed to lead the revolution against overbearing Chardonnays. |
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Seventeenth-century pochettes, 300 year-old violins and huge overbearing cellos litter the room. |
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Despite this, the EU juggernaut carries on with its overbearing legislation, which only serves to destroy small businesses and removes freedom of choice from the consumer. |
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The desire to set himself up in opposition to God and to combat every form of religion showed itself in an overbearing way also in atheistic and Communist totalitarianism. |
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We know Americans can sometimes be, if I can be honest, loud, boastful, aggressive, maybe overbearing and certainly overwhelming, but we also know they have hearts as big as this planet. |
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The overbearing moralistic tone was explicit in Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies, a masterpiece in its bizarre way, but one of the most unpleasant works of fiction I have ever read. |
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I want to love on him and kiss on him, but I don't want to be overbearing. |
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Volume levels are powerful without being overbearing. |
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The overwhelming influence of the WB is challenged by the developing countries, which also question the overbearing influence of the donors on the GEF Board. |
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The city's particular troubles go back decades, but much of its story followed familiar contours: overbearing unions, political dysfunction and financial commitments made during good times that could not be met in bad. |
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The member talked about stronger enforcement, with which I generally agree, but I wonder if she has had concerns raised by her constituents about the enforcements in these bills being overbearing. |
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In Africa and the Middle East, however, it will not be as smooth, or quick, of a transition as overbearing politics might well overwhelm the art of the new innovation age. |
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However if the Americans can occasionally be overbearing and overwhelming, we in this country, if we want to be frank, can sometimes be a little underwhelming. |
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The blog chronicles Carolyn's personal struggles as a loving yet overbearing, overprotecting and sometimes exceedingly interfering mother. |
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Not only is Keaton still landing leading roles, like the overbearing mother in new comedy Because I Said So, but she's as busy as ever. |
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Citizens who accept overbearing governments have been referred to by the Portmanteau neologism of sheeple. |
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Parliaments in many LDCs continue to be faced with a series of grave difficulties among which is the overbearing attitude of the executive branch, sometimes backed by the military. |
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On arrival at Ceylon, the Chinese were overbearing and contemptuous of the Sinhalese, whom they considered rude, disrespectful, and hostile. |
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Allegations of harsh treatment and overbearing scrutiny are commonplace. |
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California North Signature fragrance is spicy, yet not overbearing. |
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Mama's boy Michael and single mother Candace are about to get married, much to the consternation of his overbearing mother, Loretta. |
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You start with an overbearing cook and a pigheaded chicken but by the end they're spanking and tying each other up like soul mates. |
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To the chagrin of his overbearing teacup Chihuahua, Poncho, Brendan Kelly made time for me in order to answer some burning questions. |
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Connie plays Gemma Perkins, a parking meter attendant, who has lived at home with her dad and overbearing step-mum, since her mum's death. |
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Yeats's music is overbearing in that way and resonantly so. |
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A review of the relevant material does not reveal that the member of the Military Police was rude, overbearing or dictatorial towards the complainant. |
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The principal lesson from Disney appears to be that, with someone as clever and overbearing as Mr Eisner at the top, the most brilliantly designed governance rules in the world can sometimes mean zilch. |
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During an operation, sufficient support, without being overbearing, maintained the confidence and integrity of the perceived outcome in the mind of the hostage's family. |
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He was eloquent, effective, forceful, and occasionally overbearing. |
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This contemporary prequel to Psycho follows Norman as a teenager, when he and his overbearing mother Norma first moved to the motel that would take on their family name. |
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