Sentences with word «domineering»

But Goer and her Lamaze compatriots, like many domineering mothers, have a problem.

Walter Huston co-stars as Andrews» protective by domineering father and Anne Baxter is the «wild cat» of girl who is (unbeknownst to the townsfolk) Brennan's daughter.

Ball's compassion for Jasira is unqualified and her performance is affecting, especially when she slips into a high, shy, tentative little girl voice in the presence of domineering adults.

From slaughtering thousands in the name of God to burning thousands in the name of Hitler and the Fatherland to the pain and abuse brought about by domineering fathers, whether aggressive and violent or cold and remote.

Also, don't allow associates with domineering personality styles to act like they're in charge.

Thatcher replied: «Brian, if anyone's coming over as domineering in this interview, it's you.»

There are plenty of places online where you can go to mock gay men or complain about domineering women.

You end up admiring the thick skin of the character, as he blindly marches through disaster after disaster, always keeping that carefree ego his most domineering personality trait.

By «sexism,» I mean a learned pattern of relationships among men that creates an adversary and domineering style between male and male and toward all females.

(She works with one of Barry's seven domineering sisters.)

The ever - diminishing presence of Anelka was traded in for the bossy, domineering presence of Ivorian hitman Didier Drogba.

According to the study, approximately 64 percent of the 240 people surveyed said domineering bosses were actually promoted for their conduct despite its negative impact on the workplace environment.

Criticized by some Mars Hill leaders for his «domineering manner,» Driscoll said he regretted his «combativeness.»

He has the leathery looks, the voice, the posture — as well as that bellicose, domineering way with anyone opposing him, and the coarse country realism in his language.

But dominating proceedings is Peter Sarsgaard's Chuck Traynor, Boreman's domineering husband and the creepy svengali who guided a career in skin flicks until she eventually gave up in favour of campaigning anti-pornography work.

All this has led us to question the brash, domineering attitude towards nature which characterized western thought increasingly in the twentieth century.

Pepper also lives up to her name and is able to stand up for herself when Wyatt becomes domineering.

Sizes once again collide with pieces like Recyclapool where the miniature figures enjoy a pool part on a drinks can and Killer Heels, a more glaring statement about domineering powers.

The writer is concerned with the Colossians» slow decline from a grace - filled life to a religious life dominated by domineering men.

After Miguel's domineering grandmother Abuelita Elena (voiced by Renée Victor, «Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones») follows Miguel into the plaza and smashes the guitar he planned to use in the local talent competition, the boy enters Cruz's tomb to «borrow» his guitar.

Had an uncredited role in the 1999 CBS sitcom Now and Again as the voice of Roger's domineering wife, Ruth, whom the audience never saw.

I think Marissa has the wrong idea, but I am deeply saddened that she probably has the wrong idea because of the teaching of an institution that has been driven by domineering power plays.

Let's not forget the returning Loki (Hiddleston) who shows glimpses of goodness but can't shake his thirsty for domineering power.

This posturing is interpreted by the dog as very domineering and not at all the friendly gesture we are attempting to offer.

More important, the team and its coach seemed to fit well into a university whose president, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, has been striving mightily to raise academic standards, gain prestige and place football in its proper status in university affairs: an important but not domineering force.

For example, a wife often wants a masculine, dominant man upon whom she can lean, but who will not interfere with her own domineering behavior.

Overall, hunter - gatherer fathers have more intimate (and less domineering) relationships with their kids than do men from horticultural, agricultural, and herding societies.

Maybe Christian always offered a controlling, domineering figure — and maybe some people like it.

I'm also not so domineering in the boardroom.

Unless there is a miraculous transformation in the abusive or domineering one.

Indeed, his commitment to religious liberty was at least as much a function of his worry about domineering religious sects imposing themselves on the public square as of any concern about a loss of society's fundamental moral character.

The move came after 21 former pastors at the church brought charges against him, accusing him of bullying, arrogant and domineering behaviour.

I used to be a very domineering person before I became a Christian and when I became one I actually had men tell me I needed to learn to submit.

So it may seem, at least to that future student who concentrates his attention upon what our intellectuals were saying, our charientes, our periti: their intrusive and domineering voices audible even at the highest level.

Compared to Scott's last two films, The Counselor and Exodus: Gods and Kings, this is an improvement and does seem to be a bit more lively, but for those expecting something more domineering from the Alien director (and yes, Prometheus, a problematic yet welcome reprieve in comparison), will be disappointed to find The Martian is a simple if spirited adventure featuring emotionally uncomplicated human beings.

The nature of the game means that it is possible and likely one domineering player may effectively run the game, controlling everyone's turns, for example.

The room is cast in such a deep and domineering shadow that at first it is hard to make them out at all.

Domineering dogs may lunge at you and block your path.

But Lamaze, like many domineering mothers, has a problem.

This isn't meant to imply an oppressive, domineering relationship, but rather a loving relationship in which each spouse goes above and beyond to serve and protect one another.

Instead of domineering over others and seeking worldly power, Jesus humbly and selflessly served, resulting in His own death — if only we could do the same.

If you see a profile that specifies a required height / weight, salary, or supermodel looks, or includes domineering phrases like «I need...» or «I won't tolerate...,» consider whether you could ever live up to this person's impossible standards.

His role here is also of a familiar type — the native displaced by a dominant and domineering white culture — but at least he's working from his own experience, and taking center stage in his own story.

Of the working breeds, the Samoyed, Saint Bernard, Portuguese Water Dog, Newfoundland, and Siberian Husky have the mildest temperaments, and the Akita, Rottweiler, Boxer, Komondor, and Doberman can be the most domineering.

I also discovered that he was quite domineering in scriptwriting sessions, tearing up a page written by one of his fellow screenwriters and flinging it to the ground impatiently.