tyrannic

How To Use tyrannic In A Sentence

• To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
• Qui omnem pecuniarum contemptum habent, et nulli imaginationis totius munsi se immiscuerint, et tyrannicas corporis concupiscentias sustinuerint hi multoties capti a vana gloria omnia perdiderunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Melanie is thrust into an unfamiliar family full of secrets, where Uncle Phillip pulls the strings, creating a tyrannical hold over the household.
• The thirteen colonies began with a defensive revolution against tyrannical oppression and they were victorious.
• No, they would not let themselves fall under some cruel tyrannical usurper.
• One sign of his lack of the tyrannical gene was that he could not beat Dr Kepepwe at tennis. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
• It is in his practical views on tyrannicide and political murder that Sexby's real inheritance still haunts us.
• A prevailing style of dress has become known as being ‘in fashion’, but fashion has been described as a tyrannically democratic force, enforcing conformity to current social or moral conventions.
• His conception of a restrained aristocratic manliness is as applicable to the potentially hubristic - or tyrannical - prince as it is to the courtier.
• While I was still in a dilemma as to whether I should ask them verbally if they are indeed cabbing, another dilemma stepped up in the form of a tyrannical auntie.