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It's true he's overbearing, but I don't think he would hurt you
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Her great-aunt watched over her throughout the afternoon, revealing snippets of family history, and sketching pictures from her own life story, all of which seemed to consist of too many broken hearts and broken heads, until, with the football results due in and Leonard Cohen starting to become a little bit overbearing, she turned to her young relative and asked, “Do you want to stay for dinner? There’s a DVD I want to watch and we could phone out for a curry”
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Where weakness-sponsorships are exploited through overbearing of
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“You aren’t going to feel Jorma is overbearing on you any more are you?” Venna was asking Ava as he opened the door
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What amazes Billy is that she knows she is a star pupil but has never allowed herself to become pompous or overbearing
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They seldom said much around James because he had become so overbearing and obnoxious when we mentioned Jesus" name
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She didn’t even mind Janice’s overbearing attitude! After all, she had introduced her to Jeff
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He was overbearing with his melodramatics; bringing the knife, wanting to paint the flat and arguing with her
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My question therefore is: Are we getting close once again? Are we, as American citizens, subjects to a sovereign, truly represented by our Representatives in Congress, and the overbearing Chief Executive? I think not
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An exemplary environment, however, should never be (overly) excessive or overbearing that it discourages creative thought or initiative
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(evolutionary) mission; overbearing in the manner it assumes a (uniquely) higher moral authority predicated on vague, oftentimes mistaken (historical) assumptions (improperly) formed by modern ideology
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The letter said that he had done his best to settle down in the 'Sunshine Rest' Residential Home for the Elderly Person, but had found Ms Hardarm and her overbearing ways insufferable
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The room was overbearing, it’s dank smell filling his nostrils
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His health began to deteriorate rapidly when wellintentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place
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what happens after their role?In a caretaker role, soft-spoken college became overbearing,
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These “educrats” know better than anyone else, though they would never admit it, that most of the massive school bureaucracy is not merely useless, but an overbearing impediment to good education
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in the structured, intrusive, and overbearing government
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He could be a mean, angry, overbearing God who gets a thrill out of
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“So I’m not allowed to worry about you but you can be overprotective and overbearing?” she asked and I chuckled
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Demonstrate a genuine interest in the business, but try not to come across as pushy or overbearing
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to be stuck-up and overbearing
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her mother’s overbearing paranoia about Joseph’s safety
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Most would have called me overbearing or paranoid, but how would you feel if you were certain that your mother-in-law was trying to keep your child from you?
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Although I respected her awesome abilities and was quite willing to work with her on spiritual matters, I couldn’t stop myself from resenting her overbearing personality
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In their ears the roar of the strange storm of fire, and on their flesh the almost overbearing heat
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only heavier by overbearing parents who never seemed to be satisfied, even though my crèche
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But all you’ll accept is a glass of water, the rest you wave away with your left hand and Andy’s overbearing muscle
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Sometimes this transit shows a demanding or overbearing boss
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true to her profession and without being overbearing, held the
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The excitement was overbearing!
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On her part, Farah Qalibaf had done her honest best not to be too intrusive or overbearing
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“She’s all right,” Lady Jane discounted her husband’s comments as overbearing
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In the meantime, the two overbearing body guards decided to test the waves with elongated surfboards of their own
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overbearing at times and tugged at his subconscious as it did each and
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overbearing, perhaps as a result of the number of informal tourists
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government official's dirty regulations and overbearing taxes
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“How absolutely overbearing and
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I hope you don’t think I’m being overbearing
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I know that my mother has been overbearing, but if she’s in
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The overbearing snide attitude wasn’t in attendance today, as he thanked the officers for coming and insisted upon them partaking in light refreshments which had always been part of Sir Alex Clegg’s routine in the event of visitors
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Bernard as an overbearing, highly protective father—if you will—who
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Your domineering overbearing inter
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overbearing know all so you damage the potential relationship / friendship that you might have had with them
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Everything that was occurring in the world was routinely put on his desk daily, and the past few days had been overbearing
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first, but soon the voices in my head grew to an overbearing noise and I sank to my knees with its
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He always complained about her being too overbearing
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Sustaining her eerie, steady and overbearing gaze the clerk’s stare blared at Ben instantly sending a shiver of anxiety down his spine
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tales were told of the overbearing ways and cruel acts of the
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Li Tianming coldly said, “Maiden you have been overbearing in the
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He hadn�t dedicated forty years of his life to end up babysitting freighters, or to cater to the whims of some overbearing diplomat
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them once more and looking overbearing
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“Mum, Nathaniel is going to be overbearing as he has already told
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The overbearing, oppressive and clumsily gummed up together 'legal' conglomerate is entirely justified and necessary, considering the astounding number of swindlers, murderers, psychopaths, rapists, gangs, STD’s, daredevils, protostar hoppers, insanely violent religious organizations, and sinister plots to destroy and annihilate every single living thing in the system
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“This is out of your jurisdiction,” blared the overbearing and aggressive Sub-Observatory of Galactic Wranglers & Wobblers… a blatantly made up organization notorious for seizing space ships just to release them in confusing mazes they’ve designed in order to place bets on who, if any, will find their way out
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It means a lot to me that you see that I’m not invincible, that you’d do what you can to lighten the load in such a way that it’s supportive rather than overbearing
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Its eyes were proud and overbearing,
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Guy took the bread as if it were owed to him, intimidating the priest with his overbearing manners
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powerful, overbearing, and devastating
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The basic background is a loving yet overbearing father, an
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He feared having to deal with another overbearing and aggressive matriarch like Visola
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I think she sees you as overbearing and giving no thought as to what she thinks or feels
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The corruption of opium has been replaced by the corruption of pompous power, of unequal authority, of overbearing arrogance
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The dean had never been anything but overbearing and
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"You're being overbearing
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She’s… she’s very overbearing
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“Anymore outbursts like that young man and you will be removed from this courtroom permanently,” said the judge to Mikhail like an overbearing headmaster
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little kids appreciate this, but some overbearing humans need to
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He knew immediately it was Pine, his presence was overbearing even without looking up
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I unconsciously leaned away from him to protect myself from his overbearing benevolence
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overbearing mass contraction was supposed to unleash on such a small Universe in the beginning
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He was the typical semi-educated, macho male and perhaps that was what Sisi liked though she often rebelled at his overbearing and bullying ways
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And when that changed, when you realized the money was not yours, was never going to be yours, when his love became overbearing and curtailed your freedom and held you in bondage, suddenly it dawned on you what a colossal stupidity you had done, what a prostitution of oneself
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The main motivation of the Spanish Conquistadors was their overbearing avarice for gold
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Why this total arrogance of the undead? Why do they have this kind of total overbearing arrogant supposed ‘superiority’?
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apprenticeship period because his overbearing character flaws would have caused him to be expelled,
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It is only natural for man to rebel from a strict an overbearing tyrant such as the master you serve
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whose taste was so coarse, and whose temper was so overbearing, that he could not restrain himself from speaking disrespectfully of that young lady at this desk, not even Tellson's should prevent my giving him a piece of my mind
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The fact was that up to the last moment he had never expected such an ending; he had been overbearing to the last degree, never dreaming that two destitute and defenceless women could escape from his control
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Sanders was there again; Flanders she meant; and where an inquisitive old woman gets a name wrong, what chance is there that she will faithfully report an argument? As she held the plates under water and then dealt them on the pile beneath the hissing gas, she listened: heard Sanders speaking in a loud rather overbearing tone of voice: "good," he said, and "absolute" and
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When, about this time, he outraged the family feeling at Willey Farm by some overbearing insult, she stuck to him, and believed he was right
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"Why is she badly?" asked Paul, in his overbearing way
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If he came home late, and she reproached him, he frowned and turned on her in an overbearing way:
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He was not a favourite debater in the public-house, being too quick and overbearing
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Maria did not understand why Joe laughed so much over the answer he had made but she said that the manager must have been a very overbearing person to deal with
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visitors already alluded to, most of them the wives of wealthy citizens and retired tradesmen, richly dressed, ignorant, insolent, overbearing frumps, who - after filling themselves with good things in their own luxurious homes - went flouncing into the poverty-stricken dwellings of their poor `sisters' and talked to them of `religion', lectured them about sobriety and thrift, and - sometimes - gave them tickets for soup or orders for shillingsworths of groceries or coal
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Petranilla’s overbearing personality, combined with family grief, made the story just about credible
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Yet he himself had become less overbearing
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Her complexion, fair as it was, appeared yet more fair, from the effect of two black eyes, the brilliancy of which gave her face more vivacity than belonged to the colour of it, which was only defended from paleness, by a sweetly pleasing blush in her cheeks, that grew fainter and fainter, till at length it died away insensibly into the overbearing white
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But Zander thought – even though he tried not to – that Grandén was conceited and overbearing, at least towards a young temp like him
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He was very overbearing
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Indeed, they are children both—the one wizened and cantankerous, the other formidable and overbearing, yet each with a brain which has put him in the front rank of his scientific age
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She virtually runs the Office of the Coroner for her overbearing, credit-stealing boss, but rarely complains
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“I’m sorry,” I said, “I didn’t mean to sound overbearing
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Greenson would become so zealous in his treatment of Marilyn, and thus so overbearing in her life, that he would lose credibility, especially with the passing of the years