| The problems are that it easily becomes a weapon in the hands of the officious, ignorant and punitive supervisor. |
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| Handing me things and giving me advice left and right, the backstage women were quickly turning from munificent to officious. |
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| Had an officious bystander raised the possibility, can one doubt that George would have ridiculed it? |
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| I was stopped at the University gates by an officious guard who asked me for my faculty card. |
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| Rangers were right to be upset by how the officious referee handled the match. |
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| Hospitals could be pointlessly officious on such matters as visiting rights for parents. |
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| A hard worker but congenitally accident-prone, he galumphs through life trying his best but always falling foul of officious middle managers. |
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| His officious and arrogant attitude towards players has also, remarkably, gone unpunished. |
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| An officious camp guard, armed with a stout pole for the purposes of crowd control, herds them roughly away. |
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| The worst were the overly officious customs officials who are no advert for American hospitality. |
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| Overly officious, he issued an amazing 10 yellow cards and one red, in what wasn't a dirty game. |
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| An officious man forced me to wait by the door as another patron was seated. |
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| The hotel manager in Gansu is officious, just like the clean, well-appointed government facility she oversees. |
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| Our underlying concern is that we could get one or two officious people policing it. |
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| Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame. |
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| Shuffling past security in our scuzzy T-shirts and jeans, the officious receptionist tuts at us. |
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| Later, impersonating the family's trusted factotum, Oreo confronts an officious medical professional. |
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| I believe that if an officious bystander in 1984 had suggested that, all parties would have denied that that was the case. |
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| Ralph was eager to talk to Alex about something important, but he was interrupted by Edward who was busy being officious. |
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| I have little doubt that they would have said so to an officious bystander. |
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| It is, however, often imprudent and officious to try and fix the problems and arbitrate the quarrels of strangers. |
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| Almost all desirable buildings in New York are co-ops, run by officious, and sometimes vicious, board members who place stringent criteria on new members. |
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| While hearsay has become admissible in court, free speech is being patrolled by officious use of public order laws. |
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| Be aware that if you try standing in the seated areas during shows, officious stewards may insist that you sit down. |
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| The result is Have Your Circumstances Changed? a piece named after the officious letter people receive from the TV licensing authorities. |
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| Mr Davis and Ms Boxer both have their roots in the world of big labour and officious government. |
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| It swarmed with lounging waiters, officious policemen, dog-walkers pulled to right and left of the path, old ladies knitting. |
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| Then to cap it all, there is the usual officious statement that we must adopt a new lifestyle in our western societies. |
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| Such an officious spreading of The URANTIA Book-not built upon a stable foundation of believers-would result in a most terrible failure. |
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| But we can also opt for a bureaucratic, officious, quick, artificial and probably unsatisfactory answer. |
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| The Deputy Minister of Public Works read an officious declaration to the U. S. Secretary of Transportation. |
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| In Québec, there are a few business rules that are very important to uphold, even though they may seem official and officious. |
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| Planning long remained officious, with attempts made to intervene in strips. |
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| With this in mind, it is not a good idea to become officious in this regard. |
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| Our massotherapists will provide you with dynamic massages and officious care. |
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| This bore was regaling anyone who cared to listen with the story of how an officious jobsworth had refused him admission to some function or other. |
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| These officious intermeddlers from Hollywood have no regard for baseball or its rich history of patriotism, and they have no business being at the Hall of Fame. |
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| Ri smiled and decided to drop her officious speech affectation. |
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| And if you throw into the mix Southport's officious stewards then the ugly was very much on display as an end of season clash became spicier than anyone could have thought. |
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| This was almost too good to be true, but then, true to form, the officious centralisers in the Commission made it impossible to read the programme. |
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| It is not just something that the Social Democrats have lighted upon in order to be officious and over-zealous or in order to limit individual flexibility. |
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| Certain other officious bureaucratic provisions have been removed. |
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| It was a very militaristic, rigid and officious handbook, with information destined to assist the families in the deployment, such as aspects of coping with separation. |
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| Prop B's opponents suggest it is yet another instance of ignorantly officious city folk imposing their bleeding-heart preferences on country dwellers. |
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| Is it to stab a particularly officious party guest? |
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| I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my grey hairs. |
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| Catton never shows, she tells, wagging on in the most officious way. |
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| Elizabeth's misery increased, at such unnecessary, such officious attention! |
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| That's when the officious middle-aged lawyer from Washington appeared, like a federal revenuer who had just discovered a still making moonshine. |
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| His likely successor, Ayman al-Zawahri, is cold, plodding, and officious. |
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| The novel contained about 1200 pages of pure pontification, and monologues by protagonists who could not be more officious and obnoxious. |
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| Yet as infuriating as parking tickets are, this new regime of officious parking enforcement is the cornerstone of an important strategy. |
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| Three boroughs, namely, Brussels, Saint-Josse, and Schaerbeek, undertook a huge real estate operation in the North Quarter without departing too much from the officious plan. |
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| Longing, officious, anhedonic, pleading. Anna tried to make a list of every mood she'd ever been in but ran out of words before even half of her feelings were named. |
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