(1) Her childhood - split between a boisterous outdoorsiness and an intense inner life - was dominated by her overbearing mother, with whom she fought "steadily but reluctantly" until her death.
(2) "[In the] last farm bill debate in 2008, Rep Earl Blumenauer heroically tried to force a vote on food aid reform, but was quashed by an overbearing rules committee, which wouldn't permit him to offer the amendment.
(3) The ditziness, the choice between the good man and the bad boy (Darcy and Cleaver), the overbearing parents all seemed infantilising.
(4) But the British institutions can still provide obstacles to overbearing Prime Ministers.
(5) It's about a child star and his overbearing parents and his agent and the studio, lawyers, therapists, everything.
(6) "Transplanting the Pirates Of The Caribbean aesthetic to the Wild Wild West proves disastrous in The Lone Ranger, an indigestible swill of forced humour and oversized, overbearing action sequences," he writes.
(7) "The state remains as bloated, overbearing and inefficient as ever.
(8) The heroic supposition appears to be that an overbearing state is somehow suppressing entrepreneurial spirit in areas such as the north-east, and that private enterprise will naturally burst forth once the public sector is cut down to size.
(9) The atmosphere inside the grounds has been good, even if Fifa's corporatism can be overbearing.
(10) Scotland would be a counterweight to London's huge, overbearing influence over the British economy.
(11) He never got on with his overbearing mother, Rosalind, but idealised his father Edward, who, as captain of the former passenger steamer Rawalpindi, had gone down with his ship and 263 men after the attack by the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst in November 1939.
(12) The alternative is that they'll be exactly like their online personas – overbearing and needy and desperate to react to everything with a tedious one-liner.
(13) Overbearing, ostentatious, and incongruous, don't you think?"
(14) To the authorities in Zug and Zurich, Rich was a victim of an overbearing US prosecutorial system - a system that had overreached itself in trying to have him extradited from Switzerland.
(15) Lyrically it is a bit overbearing, and there’s no mention of food or vodka, which is a bit strange.
(16) He wants recognition and respect from the international community, just as he wanted it (and probably did not get it) from his overbearing father and dysfunctional mafia family.
(17) Part of Manning's motivation, the defence has argued, was that he believed the US government to be overbearingly secretive, but again the prosecutors contend that is irrelevant to the question of his guilt or innocence.
(18) I found Mr Mitchell’s tone overbearing, but he did not swear at us.
(19) McKillop tried to defend his own tenure on the board, insisting Goodwin had not been overbearing and that the ABN deal was agreed by the entire board.
(20) In Out Of Place (1999), the memoir of his childhood and youth, Said described his father, who called himself William to emphasise his adopted American identity, as overbearing and uncommunicative.
Swaggering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swagger
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a certain degree of swagger, a sudden interruption of panache, as Alan Moore enters the rather sterile Waterstones office where he has agreed to speak to me.
(2) From flood defences to Crossrail 2, corporation tax cuts to provision for people with disabilities , the risks of Brexit to £20m for Hull: this was a chancellor roaming the political landscape with undiminished swagger and not a hint of apology.
(3) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
(4) Such swagger would look naïve and unreflexive now, in a country assailed by anxiety about its own impotence in the world.
(5) Ratko Mladic, opening his defence in The Hague this week, has reason to understand the change in a way he did not when he was swaggering through the Bosnian killing fields.
(6) (This is not just swagger: Barton's brother Michael, after all, is currently serving a minimum of 17 years in prison for his part in the racially motivated murder of Anthony Walker in 2005.
(7) In an ideal world one of the candidates will swagger over to the other, as Al Gore did to George Bush in 2000.
(8) I am aware, too, that I associate tattoos on men with aggression, the kind of arrogant swagger that goes with vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses.
(9) Twin muses of Liam Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix added up to louche tailoring, flower prints and urban staples like a swagger-tastic Gallagher parka.
(10) A distinct swagger in his step became apparent as his career developed at Boro but right up until his appearance at Bradford crown court, there had been little evidence of a genuinely darker side to his nature.
(11) Lucky enough to catch him playing its songs at New York’s Ritz early in 1981, I was instantly won over by his thrilling talent and androgynous swagger.
(12) Cut to the elegant hotel corridor, Gimme Shelter screaming on the soundtrack, and Denzel emerges, swaggering and magnificent in full pilot's uniform, ready to go to work.
(13) The 22-year-old was outstanding, a swaggering, forceful presence who left City's players with little choice but to hack him down.
(14) Most important are the donors, who can usually be spotted by their swagger and the strong smell of cigar-smoke.
(15) Tottenham’s Denmark playmaker had not completed 90 minutes since 15 August, a knee injury hampering his early-season form, but two free-kick equalisers blew away the cobwebs here and ensured deserved parity for his team in a vibrant game characterised by swagger on the ball and defensive jitters off it.
(16) In Richard Moore’s book The Bolt Supremacy he describes the odd cocktail of bonhomie and saccharine that surrounded the sprinter’s swaggering conquest of London 2012.
(17) It is an assessment that continues to resonate, not just because of who it came from but also because it aptly encapsulates the swaggering brilliance of that Liverpool team, one which having crushed Forest went on to clinch the club's 17th league championship at a canter.
(18) Promoting Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp swaggered through the hall dressed as his character, Captain Jack Sparrow, as fans were told that Orlando Bloom’s character, Will Turner, will return for the fifth instalment of the franchise, Dead Men Tell No Tales, in 2017.
(19) Former Labour staffers, moderate refugees fleeing the hard-left takeover under Corbyn, sometimes bristled at what they saw as unmerited swagger in the step of the Downing Street contingent, who expected to easily replicate their victory in the previous May’s general election.
(20) But it also reflects US elite breast-beating about economic failure, the rise of China and a loss of global swagger since the Bush years.