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

The second says a person shall not be found guilty of a crime if the person acted because of “a delusional compulsion” that “overmastered” her will.

From Seattle Times

He did teach physicians “to refuse to treat those who are overmastered by their diseases, realizing that in such cases medicine is powerless.”

From Washington Post

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

Nature demanded that the higher races overmaster and starve the lower.

From The Guardian