A traditional director and a perfectionist who was interested in the darker side of human nature, he had a reputation for tyrannizing his actors to get the most out of the highly polished screenplays. |
Especially infuriating was the Mercedes itself, a black S-500 with a siren: for years, these besirened black Mercedeses had been running red lights, using the emergency lane, and otherwise tyrannizing other drivers. |
After 30 years of the media running roughshod over Likud, Likud is tyrannizing the media. |
He's drinking heavily, smoking relentlessly, avoiding his students, quoting Beatrix Potter and tyrannizing Joey with bitter, guilt-inflicting tirades that reek of self-loathing. |
With the death of our personality, our four bodies of sin cease tyrannizing us and humbly submit themselves to the will of our Innermost or universal soul. |
Years later, he passed up a college education for the easy money and hedonism of street life, ruthlessly tyrannizing his own ring of prostitutes for 25 years. |