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
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
Suave, power-loving President Carlos Arroyo del Rio had decreed a national election on June 2-3.
From Time Magazine Archive
Glafira Pavlovna Konopatskaya, the rich widow of a general, was an energetic, power-loving woman, and enjoyed considerable influence in town.
From The Created Legend by Cournos, John
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
