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
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
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
