(1) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
(2) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
(3) My grandfather was a coal miner and Nana was rather plump and bossy.
(4) Sometimes the person who is going to die will appear to be angry and quite bossy, and tell me to hurry up, but I know it is not how they are feeling inside," she says.
(5) First black senator elected in south since Reconstruction Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tim Scott smiles with his mother, Frances Scott, after winning his Senate race over challengers Jill Bossi and Joyce Dickerson in South Carolina.
(6) Instead, she has used the take-no-prisoners bossiness that for years served as a distraction from her day job to develop a second career.
(7) Kate Winslet pops up as Jeanine Matthews, the aggy bossy boots on hand to keep the population down.
(8) In support of his new policy, Bossi explained that a war had been fought in Europe – monetary and non-military, but nevertheless a war – and Italy had lost.
(9) And Olivia Lee – who has the presenting style of a bossy girlfriend you'd flay a bag of kittens to be rid of – is not the woman to rebuild them.
(10) "Whoever is behind this attack had a message and it has been heard," said Mary Bossis, professor of international security at the University of Piraeus.
(11) Fat chicks deserve that, too.’” I probably would have finessed it a bit if I’d been sober, but way to lean in, bossy, drunk past-Lindy!
(12) Sending ability was positively related to teacher's ratings of activity level, aggressiveness, impulsiveness, bossiness, sociability, etc., and negatively related ti shyness, cooperation, emotional inhibition and control, etc.
(13) Earlier this year Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg launched a campaign to stamp out "bossy", claiming that it discourages young women from developing leadership skills.
(14) I'm the boss," announced Beyoncé in one of Sandberg's anti-bossy TV adverts.
(15) At Company X we had a joke that there were only two reviews for women – you are either too reticent or you are too bossy – no middle ground,” said one respondent .
(16) Confident women at work are still labeled "bossy" and "bitchy", to their own detriment – unless they can "turn it off" .
(17) Hilary Swank is gentlewoman farmer Mary Bee Cuddy, a transplant from upstate New York who has built a successful holding but lacks a husband; men tell her she’s “plain and bossy”.
(18) "I'm not saying I'm a shrinking violet – I'm not – I've been bossy all my life.
(19) She is bossy, domineering, abrasive, secretive, uptight and petty – but what really gets me is her serial use of covert, sneaky methods to get what she wants – often at my expense.
(20) She, like Abramson, was criticised for poor communication skills ("very difficult to talk to") , her bossiness ( "authoritarian" ) and her brusque nature ( "Putin-like" ).
Opinionated
Definition:
(a.) Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(4) In self-opinions on own appearance the children mentioned teeth as a feature which they would like to change as first.
(5) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(6) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(7) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
(8) Although individual IRB chairpersons and oncology investigators may have important differences of opinion concerning the ethics of phase I trials, these disagreements do not represent a widespread area of ethical conflict in clinical research.
(9) However, controversy and differing opinions about the disbursement of contraceptives remains.
(10) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(11) The authors are of the opinion that the processes occurring in the neighbourhood of the traumatic skin wound can be influenced and that regeneration can be regulated.
(12) In this way, we tried to find out how the patients experience the treatment and stay on the Unit, what is most helpful in solving their problems and what are, in their opinion, the direct gains of hospitalization.
(13) Twellman has steadily grown in confidence as he settles into his role, though whether as a player or as an advocate he was never shy about voicing his opinions.
(14) He told FA.com: “In my opinion, we were worthy winners.
(15) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
(16) The current opinion, based on different clinical tests, is that parasympathetic impairment occurs earlier in autonomic dysfunctions.
(17) In our opinion, this is the first case of that condition reported in this country.
(18) Piccoli followed that up with an opinion piece for Fairfax Media on Thursday in which said the SES model never applied to public schools and was not properly targeted to student needs.
(19) After presenting some incontestable facts of CSF-physiology the actual and quite controversial opinions on ventricular and extraventricular sources of CSF as well as the mechanism of CSF-absorption are discussed.
(20) Mark Rasch, a cyber crime expert quoted by the FT, meanwhile said recent events have been “a serious and devastating attack to [Sony’s] reputation and image”, and his opinion is played out by a new YouGov poll into the public perception of Sony’s brand.