power-loving
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The former manager Earl Weaver, the power-loving patriarch of the Orioles’ dugout, would have loved this team.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2014
Suave, power-loving President Carlos Arroyo del Rio had decreed a national election on June 2-3.
From Time Magazine Archive
I submit that the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the person who exercised most quiet power in the country was the lawyer, who was generally at the head of the administration; and occasionally a power-loving court preacher.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav
Savonarola had that readily-roused resentment towards opposition, hardly separable from a power-loving and powerful nature, accustomed to seek great ends that cast a reflected grandeur on the means by which they are sought.
From Romola by Eliot, George
