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Overbearing
Overbearing meaning
present participle and gerund of overbear
Synonyms of Overbearing
Example sentences (20)
The overbearing father figure – you know, I love my father, but he’s an overbearing presence.
And he’s happy to pick on everyone—the French and the English along with overbearing Indian parents.
A Phoenix secretary on the run (Janet Leigh) checks into a shady motel run by the mysterious Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) and his overbearing mother.
As the soon to be wed couple oranges their families together for a destination wedding, typical family spats and miscommunication naturally arise as Jennifer Coolidge assumes the role of Duhamel’s overbearing mother.
Before the string of recent wars in the Gulf, beginning with Iraq’s invasion of Iran in 1980, this was the non-overbearing way that American power was felt in the region.
Being overbearing toward a friend is a risk for you now.
But Warren never issued that request with a power-hungry, overbearing stance.
Clearly inspired by teleports viewers to a distant future filled with Sci-Fi goodies like sentient robots, flying cars, and overbearing bosses.
Foufas said that sometimes his mother can be 'overbearing,' adding that she has previously called into his radio show under a false name and he once invited her on holiday to Mykonos but since then, she has come every year.
Householders fear their voices no longer matter and they have “lost control of the planning process” after an “overbearing” three storey block of flats was approved.
In addition, it is hardly necessary to say, Canada’s ties to the Crown are a powerful symbolic separation from our overbearing next-door neighbour that basically cannot be replaced.
Its 26-episode run was near-perfect, and episodes that might have been filler in another series are tight, taut, and serve the show’s thesis even as they do not distract from its overarching plot, which is compelling but not overbearing.
It's a harrowing and very sad watch, but powerful because it is ultimately empathetic, with the gritty presentation and lack of interviews/overbearing narration helping to make it feel all the more real and hard-hitting.
It said that the homes would not have any “significant overlooking, overbearing or overshadowing” on neighbours.
My New Roommate Is a Self-Absorbed, Overbearing Nightmare.
Saoirse Ronan was up for an Oscar as a rebellious and ambitious teenager in the 1990s dealing with struggles like young romance, an uncertain future, and an overbearing mother.
She also recently produced a short film called “ which tells the story of a South Asian dancer who struggles with perfectionism, her future and her complicated relationship with an overbearing partner.
She makes Annie precise, methodical, and overbearing, dominating every second she's on-screen with the same control she exercises over the injured Paul.
She takes a gig babysitting a little girl named Danielle, whose parents are overbearing but who lives in a nice house with a giant collection of dolls.
Since her father is paralyzed and ill, her overbearing mother Ruth runs the household and even goes so far as to take Pearl's supper away after she forgets eight cents from when she was out running errands.