How To Use Tyrannical In A Sentence

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
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.

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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.
Proposition 22, which defined marriage to be between a man and a woman and adopted by California voters on March 7, 2000 with 61.4% in favor, was hijacked along with the California Legislative Branch by the Tyrannical Justices of the California Supreme Court which legislated from the bench in direct violation of the California Constitution and managed to null the will of the people and declare Proposition 22 unconstitutional. California becomes second U.S. state to legalize gay marriage : Law is Cool
The young composer wanders through a haunted mansion, trying to exorcise the spirits of his tyrannical father and castrating sisters.
Is it not then our job to reduce the tyrannical power of our government and once again allow men to live, trade and interact as they see fit?
Then why does he become so tyrannical when he's questioned?
Sure, some websites capability kiss the feet your encumber, re-using it and putting ads on it – making bread from your tyrannically in the planning stages unemployed. The Culture of Sharing: Why Releasing Copyright Will Be the Smartest Thing You Do | Write to Done
Our aim was to free the public from tyrannical and illegal behaviour, to annihilate anarchy and strengthen the central government.
[133], Assyrian writers explain that: The deep and hidden reason of the tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are � - all -- not Arabs Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
The Federation was a growing tyrannical power that was spreading across the Earth at an alarming rate, due to its vast military strength.
Tyrannical and repressive non-colonial regimes might be supported if they could be presented as allies against Communism, but it was not always possible to go on making excuses for them.
Wasn't there a brutally tyrannical rabbit society counterpoised to the longed-for, sought-after egalitarian rabbit utopia? BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians
If not, we will be waging military campaigns against new tyrannical regimes over and over again.
The course of David's own career was held to express an unhealthy identity of tyrannical power with pedagogical authority.
My family has recently suffered the most inhuman treatment at the hands of a well-organized lawless body of tyrannical thieves under the leadership of a man going by the name of F. B. Yerrington, formerly of Carson City, Nevada. The Trouble With May Amelia
That is, these mounted men were regarded as tyrannical bullies, delinquents and pests.
If not, we will be waging military campaigns against new tyrannical regimes over and over again.
Many young men are as obstinate, and as curious in their choice, as tyrannically proud, insulting, deceitful, false-hearted, as irrefragable and peevish on the other side; Narcissus-like, Anatomy of Melancholy
There was no way he was going to give up or moderate his tyrannical power except at the barrel of a gun.
In our society it is not the tyrannical regimes with dictatorial and despotic power that destroys our freedom.
He was brought up by a cruel and tyrannical father.
One effect of the digital Panopticon is the loss of privacy and the threat of tyrannical social control; another effect is a rich body of data about online behavior.
The budgets usually showed deficits, and the imposts of all kinds were raised by tyrannical farmers-general. The Psychology of Revolution
But they profess to believe that informality is liberating (in spite of their tyrannical attempts to impose it). The Formal Home
This is true whether he's dealing with the tyrannically needy Louise, or the popular kids who torment them both at school.
Even if it seems they have been attacked into dormancy like a rolly-poley protectively curled, and even if this current administration were to become a force of tyrannical oppression, Faith, Hope, and Love will remain and have their way. Politico Outs the Secret Plan to Pass ObamaCare - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState
Milton was kept from politics in his youth, not by any notion of their incompatibility with poetry; but by the more cogent arguments at their command “under whose inquisitious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish.” Life of John Milton
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
There is not a grain of evidence that primitive government was despotic and tyrannical.
Could she have been saved if her mother had died years ago, suddenly, instead of lingering as a demanding, tyrannical invalid? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
In the end she left home just to escape the tyrannical rule of her mother.
How and why the play cultivates such mixed responses toward a tyrannical, regicidal, fratricidal, uxoricidal, incestuous bogey-man will occupy our attention.
Far from exclusively singling out the Nazi regime, the modern age is presented as singularly tyrannical and repressive.
Based on the Lope de Vega play Fuenteovejuna, about a Spanish village that rises against its tyrannical overlord, the ballet harks back to old peasant ballets from the previous century: cue larky drinking dances, cute lovers and comic village elders that could have come straight out of Coppélia or Don Quixote. Mikhailovsky Ballet: Laurencia
The officers and gentlemen who are at Cawnpore, and Futtyghur, and Darunghur, and other places, by different means act very tyrannically and oppressively towards the aumils and ryots and inhabitants; and to whomsoever that requires a dustuck they give it, with their own seal affixed, and send for the aumils and punish them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
The story is autobiographical, and the tyrannical, captious, arbitrary, and selfish landowner is the author's mother, Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva.
All it has done is replace one despotic tyrannical regime with another that is mildly better in some ways, and much worse in others.
a tyrannical parent
[339], Assyrian writers explain that: The deep and hidden reason of the tyrannical oppression practiced throughout the Middle East is the imposition of pan-Arabic nationalist cliques that intend to dictatorially arabize the various peoples of the Middle East, who are � - all -- not Arabs Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
When they lack force, tyrannical natures are characterized by simulation and their behaviour by obliqueness.
With which answer the king was so pacified, that he indeuored by pretending his fauor towards the sonne, to extenuat the tyrannicall murther of the father. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England
The Lombards were called avaricious, vicious and cowardly; the Romans, seditious, turbulent and slanderous; the Sicilians, tyrannical and cruel; the inhabitants of The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The more people turn to and demand government does what they want, the more they become wards of the state, serfs working on the government's estate and squabbling over the tiny things they're given by a tyrannical state who will allow no freedom that might lead to what they define as inequality or unfairness. Word Around the Net
Dio lived through turbulent times: he and his fellow senators quailed before tyrannical emperors and lamented the rise of men they regarded as upstarts, and in Pannonia he grappled with the problem of military indiscipline.
The invasion was preceded by a concerted press campaign demonising the Spanish for their tyrannical and brutal colonial rule.
We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Vitter, DeMint, et al: time to go Patrick Henry on Obama’s assault on conservatives - E_Pluribus_Unum’s blog - RedState
And we especially condemn and in God's name execrate those who not only omit both forms but also quite autocratically [tyrannically] prohibit, condemn, and blaspheme them as heresy, and so exalt themselves against and above Christ, our Lord and God The Smalcald Articles
He himself admires Peter the Great, the legendary but tyrannical transformer of 18th-century Russia.
Diplomatic pressure and economic sanctions, for example, are useful means of engagement with tyrannical regimes.
All artists are androgynous; in Chopin the feminine often prevails, but it must be noted that this quality is a distinguishing sign of masculine lyric genius, for when he unbends, coquets and makes graceful confessions or whimpers in lyric loveliness at fate, then his mother's sex peeps out, a picture of the capricious, beautiful tyrannical Polish woman. Chopin : the Man and His Music
Soon after his death, propagandists began to construct a myth of Scrope as a latter-day Thomas Becket, martyred for his exposure of Henry IV's perjury, regicide and tyrannical rule.
No tyrannical law of the father, no crushing weight of deadening regulations. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
So private tyrannies become tyrannical by buying up some of the trade policies of democratic governments.
You, my lord, are the most arrogant, overbearing, high-handed, tyrannical, dictatorial despot it has ever been my misfortune to meet. DEVIL'S BRIDE
If pluralism is a balance, the rise of binary oppositions upsets the balance in either an "anarchical" (in the bad sense) or tyrannical direction. Freedom Democrats - Online Community for Libertarian Democrats
What Burke argued passionately against, by contrast, was the French Revolution and Jacobin thinking, which he saw as expressing an unhistorical, tyrannical spirit and an importunate desire for power.
The tradition-bound father is reserved and tyrannical at home, but when he is away from home at night, he is a libertine - drinking and womanizing.
Their orators grew magniloquent over its tyrannical oppression; the Southern press overflowed with that marvellous exuberance of diatribe of which they are the acknowledged masters -- to all of which the complaisant North gave a ready and subservient concurrence, until the very name reeked in the public mind with infamous associations and degrading ideas. Bricks without Straw A Novel
Anne had told me that Dominic had become cruel and tyrannical.
The Grand Duke, Peter Leopold, the practical, economical, priest-hating, paternally-meddlesome, bustlingly and tyrannically-reforming son of Maria Theresa, was not the man to console so mediæval and antiquated and unphilosophical a thing as a Stuart. The Countess of Albany
The course of his own career was held to express an unhealthy identity of tyrannical power with pedagogical authority.
The diplomats report the tyrannical tendencies of the junta but also point out many problems with the "sclerotic" leadership of a democratic opposition and its undemocratic ways. Thestar.com - Home Page
Such estates were entrusted to bailiffs who all too often were dishonest and tyrannical.
It is the democratic left which should be most enraged by the history of that tyrannical empire and by the good men and women who compromised the cause by sticking with it.
You, my lord, are the most arrogant, overbearing, high-handed, tyrannical, dictatorial despot it has ever been my misfortune to meet. DEVIL'S BRIDE
The man's search for a tyrannical fatherland never ends!
For instance, while he states that there are instances when tyrannicide is justified (for example against tyrannical usurpers), killing a prince presumed to be a tyrant is forbidden if ‘the prince is an absolute sovereign.’
The historian, by a simple stroke, has drawn a graphic picture of an Oriental despot, wallowing with his favorite in sensual enjoyments, while his tyrannical cruelties were rending the hearts and homes of thousands of his subjects. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He is a tyrannical, dogmatic and highly narcissistic dictator who has no intentions of going down quietly.
She proceeded to exploit her ill health to become the most feared of all chronic suffers, an ill-natured and tyrannical invalid.
What Burke argued passionately against, by contrast, was the French Revolution and Jacobin thinking, which he saw as expressing an unhistorical, tyrannical spirit and an importunate desire for power.
It is tyrannical because, while it asserts a global monopoly of violence, we cannot peacefully remove and replace it.
Ranked against him are the hideous shades of the Inquisition and directly in his path is his unloving, tyrannical father, the King.
tyrannical government
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Those, indeed, who rule for the public good, are true examples and specimens of his beneficence, while those who domineer unjustly and tyrannically are raised up by him to punish the people for their iniquity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Revolution (?) in Kyrgyzstan
Not a single voice among them was raised in protest against this tyrannical machtpolitik: not that night, not the next day, not ever. Undefined
Could she have been saved if her mother had died years ago, suddenly, instead of lingering as a demanding, tyrannical invalid? DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
The complete right to organize for political ends guards against the danger that majorities might impose tyrannical legislation.
When the people were attacked, they would rally behind their dear leader, no matter how tyrannical or cruel he was.
But this isn't just tyrannical naysaying; for once you and your local despots should be on the same page: everyone wants to see this particular dream come to fruition.
He has become a student of one of the most tyrannical leaders in history.
Elizabeth I called the attempted invasion of England a ‘tyrannical, proud and brainsick attempt’.
Absolutist tyrannies are far more likely than democracies to breed absolutist tyrannical resistance groups willing to do anything to fight back.
A black or malign disposition, an effeminate disposition; an hard inexorable disposition, a wild inhuman disposition, a sheepish disposition, a childish disposition; a blockish, a false, a scurril, a fraudulent, a tyrannical: what then? Meditations
Men are ever lapsing into a beggarly habit, wherein everything that is not ciphering, that is, which does not serve the tyrannical animal, is hustled out of sight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858
The movie now takes on a starkly different aesthetic as it turns its focus to blood feuds, family honour, and tyrannical patriarchy.
Not that their rule was considered tyrannical or arbitrary.
It is the right to engage in unpopular speech -- speech challenging the status quo, which the angry mob or the tyrannical government would be tempted to suppress -- that the First Amendment protects for all of us. Taylor Asen: How a Gay Man's Harmless Political Expression May Lead to Prison Time
The entire people are slaves owned by the Sultan and these Datos, who exercise over the unfortunate wretches the worst species of tyrannical power; for as these nobles or _reguli_ are subject to no law but there own caprice, if any slave displeases his master, he can, without the slightest fear of having to give any account of the circumstance to a living soul, draw his kris, and murder the slave. Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850
The problem is not simply that we allow arms suppliers to the poor and tyrannical to operate in this country; it is much worse.
One sign of his lack of the tyrannical gene was that he could not beat Dr Kepepwe at tennis. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Plotting the overthrow of a foreign government, however tyrannical, became a criminal offence.
They do not speak honestly about some of the world's most tyrannical regimes.
a tyrannical government
Being a dark tyrannical overlord is something that exempts one from Casual Friday, no matter how much the leather may chafe. Collect Call From Coruscant
The flood has reached its climax and after the destruction, terror, murder, and sacrilege practiced by the aggressive, terrorist, and criminal Zionist entity, together with its tyrannical ally, the U.S., have come to a head against our brothers and our faithful struggling people in plundered Palestine. Tales of the Tyrant
Mohammed Atta and Ayman al-Zawahiri were bred in the tyrannical republic of Hosni Mubarak.Zawahiri, the vengeful Cairene aristocrat, was explicit about that.
Yet this same lust for tyrannical conquest is also their greatest weakness.
This ciuill warre decaied the force of the Britains, little lesse than the tyrannicall practises of Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
It wasn't a victory for liberty, only a transition from one tyranny to another, because ANY system of governance is, to some extent, tyrannical.
All the money raised will be spent exclusively on ad campaigns aimed at the short-term vulnerabilities of those in Congress responsible for delivering this indescribably tyrannical package of surveillance powers to the President and the accompanying corrupt gift to lawbreaking telecoms. read on... Hullabaloo
One effect of the digital Panopticon is the loss of privacy and the threat of tyrannical social control; another effect is a rich body of data about online behavior.
That would have taught us all a salutary lesson against tyrannical and unjustified government action, wouldn't it?
Religious sects have also been templates on which hierarchies form, with ideal opportunities for individual men to wield tyrannical power.
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal
Rather like tyrannical dictators, who don't expect to die quietly in their beds, one somehow never expected Jack Warner's professional death to happen offstage in press releases and leaked reports. Adieu Jack Warner, but beware the next generation of Fifa supervillains | Marina Hyde
The West backs up the most tyrannical regimes throughout the region.
His son always continued to say this, but Franklin himself came to see that he who discrowns kings may be greater than kings, and that it became the duty of a people to discrown tyrannical kings, and to make a king of the popular will. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin
a stern and stubborn nature that those who liked him called masterful, and that those who disliked him -- a more numerous body -- termed tyrannical. Novel Notes
Indeed, opposition to tyrannical powers is the highest expression of patriotism, American style.
One effect of the digital Panopticon is the loss of privacy and the threat of tyrannical social control; another effect is a rich body of data about online behavior.
Being accompanied by the span-new silken affair with the golden head, which, as I have narrated _supra_, I was so lucky to obtain promiscuously after witnessing the Adelphi of the Westminster college boys, I naturally protested vehemently against such arbitrary and tyrannical regulations, urging the risk of my unprotected umbrella being feloniously abducted during unavoidable absence by some unprincipled and illegitimate claimant. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
Justice, had traitorously and wickedly endeavored to subvert the constitution by the introduction of an arbitrary, tyrannical government against law; that the said Jonathan Sewell had disregarded the authority of Parliament, and usurped its powers by making regulations subversive of the constitution and the laws; that Jonathan Sewell had libellously published such Rules of Practice; that Jonathan Sewell had substituted his own will for the will of the legislature; that Jonathan The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
It is hard to imagine that a person could support such a tyrannical regime.
Within Ireland too, such proposals had their critics, who claimed that authorities sought tyrannical powers, and that special new constabulary forces would represent primarily so much additional patronage for government.
The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate. Chapter 14
Milton was kept from politics in his youth, not by any notion of their incompatibility with poetry; but by the more cogent arguments at their command "under whose inquisitious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Life of John Milton
So that the right use of comedy will, I think, by nobody be blamed, and much less of the high and excellent tragedy, that openeth the greatest wounds, and showeth forth the ulcers that are covered with tissue; that maketh kings fear to be tyrants, and tyrants manifest their tyrannical humors; that with stirring the effects of admiration and commiseration teacheth the uncertainty of this world, and upon how weak foundations gilden roofs are builded; that maketh us know: Qui sceptra sævus duro imperio regit, The Defense of Poesy
A number of politically embarrassing photographs were taken, among them, the above handclasp between tyrannical despot Robert Mugabe, and British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw.
Local officials are portrayed as corrupt and tyrannical but the central leadership is described as paying serious attention to the problems.
New Zealanders have those freedoms, which set us apart from tyrannical regimes where Governments tell people what they can and cannot do.
Absolutist tyrannies are far more likely than democracies to breed absolutist tyrannical resistance groups willing to do anything to fight back.
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannical, so beyond control!
Milton had postponed his poem, in 1641, till "the land had once enfranchished herself from this impertinent yoke of prelatry, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Milton
Really, the rabid support for gun ownership stateside comes from an ideal that the people should be able to, if necessary, mount an armed resistance to a tyrannical and corrupt government for the purposes of revolution.
The Saudis have been using petro-dollars to spread their tyrannical version of Islam worldwide.
Both were wars of choice, waged against tyrannical regimes that did not immediately threaten the United States.
But he was forced to flee to Athens when the revolt was crushed, and was prosecuted for having held tyrannical power in Chersonesus.
Finding the strict regime unnecessarily repressive on the kids, he drafts them into a choir, much to the chagrin of the tyrannical head teacher.
Bertulf, who had tyrannically usurped the provostship of St. Donatian's in Bruges, to which dignity was annexed the chancellorship of Flanders, and his wicked relations, the great oppressors of their country. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
Cruel and tyrannical, he consciously sought to make himself a despot.
He declared it to be anti-democratic and tyrannical.
The second is that tyrannical oppression is a paradigmatic offense against the natural order.
Ranked against him are the hideous shades of the Inquisition and directly in his path is his unloving, tyrannical father, the King.
First, Bush said "let's go in cos Saddam has WMDs", when none were found, he said, "well, he possessed the intent to make WMDs", when that did not wash, he said, "well, sadamm's regime was tyrannical and the is safer place". Dems seize on 5 year anniversary of 'Mission Accomplished' speech
But she couldn't imagine Drake being cruel and tyrannical.
We are not wise in going back to the most ignorant, the most tyrannical, most autocratical periods. The Trend of Empire
Only their lack of a tradition of liberty has held them back by keeping them under the control of tyrannical governments.
In her youth, Elizabeth had been watched over by her tyrannical father.
As a manager he was belligerent, tyrannical, wisecracking, but always affectionate.
(M358) These are the effects and rewards of al such as being pricked forward with this Romane and tyrannical ambition will goe about thus to subdue strange people: effects, I say, contrary to the profit which those shall receiue, which onely are affectioned to the common benefite, that is to say, to the generall policie of all men, and endeuour to vnite them one with another as well by trafficke and ciuill conuersations, as by military vertues, and force of armes, when as the Sauages will not yeeld vnto their enduours so much tending vnto their profit. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
The privacy of hearth and home was precisely where a man could let his tyrannical inclinations run free.

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