overmaster

Example Sentences

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Howard Thurman said, “There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: under what terms is survival possible?”

From Salon • Aug. 24, 2024

Lesbos, he wrote in an 1872 essay on the poet, was “the island of overmastering passions.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2015

Beneath the chronicle of war runs a parallel narrative, Lawrence's personal struggle to understand his overmastering fascination with the Arab world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2013

The reporters had at first been rather peevish at having been asked to risk their skins for old manuscripts, but they ended by being impressed by the scholar’s overmastering enthusiasm.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

There was no time to think of what might happen; a vague, overmastering fear obscured all details.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker