There was a certain overbearingness and - what shall I say?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

Dennitzans didn't react to overbearingness as meekly as citizens of the inner Empire were wont to.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

Does Barack Obama really embrace “abrasiveness, arrogance, and overbearingness” as the model for his cabinet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Larry Summers, the Friedmanite] Reference

Then he said he knew I'd already been sounding men out about getting together against the king, to withstand his overbearingness and, if need be, fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Patrolman]

Armed with the prestige and filled with the scornful overbearingness of the conquering nation, they have the feelings inspired by absolute power without its sense of responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Government] Reference

The strings add a treacly overbearingness to something that wasn't very fun to begin with - I know they were trying to be Queen a la "Bohemian Rhapsody", but couldn't even get close to Paul McCartney's "Back Seat of My Car" in terms of rock opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [lulu lumens] Reference

As I note in my book, professor Stephen Thernstrom, who is one of the most prominent conservatives at Harvard, supported Summers but admitted that Summers is in the “top tenth of one percent of any scale measuring abrasiveness, arrogance, and overbearingness.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Against Larry Summers, the Friedmanite] Reference

From the extreme tsun-tsun-ness of Serizawa, the overbearingness of Chise and the meta-ness of the guys and the maids, it came out to be a very nice package overall.    From Wordnik.com.  [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference

And she repeated to Edward in every possible tone that the girl did not love him; that the girl detested him for his brutality, his overbearingness, his drinking habits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Soldier] Reference

When the interviewer said, - both of you are bi-racial, as an excercise of parental autonomy, she should have either ended the interview or chided the interviewer for her presumptive overbearingness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrity Baby Blog] Reference

I wonder how much "religious sentiments" truly played a part in all this or whether it had more to do with the vanity, hypocricy and autocratic overbearingness of those who instigated the prosecution, or should I say, persecution.    From Wordnik.com.  [timesofmalta.com] Reference

Feeling stifled, Ariel breaks away from her father’s protective overbearingness and predictable daily routines and gets into plenty of trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [DVD Review: The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning] Reference

Feeling stifled, Ariel breaks away from her father’s protective overbearingness and predictable daily routines and gets into plenty of trouble….    From Wordnik.com.  [2008 August] Reference

I don’t even mean to judge the validity of comment sections; the more the better in my, as in OxBlog’s, view, althoughthis amended policy, from the otherwise absorbing Alas, was disappointing for its overbearingness the overbearing being exactly what so much of Alas is devoted to deconstructing.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Approach To Moderation] Reference

Complaining that over the last two years Roald’s comments had been “unmatched” in his experience for “overbearingness and lack of civility,” he complained that recently Roald had begun “to address others here—who are less well placed to answer you back—with the same degree of abusiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storyteller] Reference