overmaster

Example Sentences

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It was a welcome reminder that even in the rankly toxic House of Representatives, sometimes the personal transcends the ideological and that civility and empathy can overmaster appearances.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2012

The necessity of recovering it cooled for the moment the passion which had threatened to overmaster him.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 by Various

Illusions which, though now in some measure dispelled, were long powerful enough to overmaster the mind of every politician, both speculative and practical, in Europe.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

It had begun so delicately; it became in a little while so determined, it threatened to overmaster him.

From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon

His sympathies were strongly with the South, but not so strongly as to overmaster his desire to retain his commission and its emoluments.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John