All 13 Uses of
dominate
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work.†
Part 2dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- The dark ominous mass beyond dominates even the roofs of the buildings on either side of the main street.†
Part 2dominates = controls; or is most influential or powerful
- It's such a powerful, all-dominating agent of civilized man it's all but shut out everything else and now dominates man himself.†
Part 2 *dominating = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- It's such a powerful, all-dominating agent of civilized man it's all but shut out everything else and now dominates man himself.†
Part 2dominates = controls; or is most influential or powerful
- When one isn't dominated by feelings of separateness from what he's working on, then one can be said to "care" about what he's doing.†
Part 3dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
- We ride unnoticed down this empty highway through this strange country I've never seen before, and now a heavy feeling of isolation and loneliness becomes dominant and my spirits wane with the sun.†
Part 3dominant = controlling; or most influential or powerful
- But in the secondary America we've been through, of back roads, and Chinaman's ditches, and Appaloosa horses, and sweeping mountain ranges, and meditative thoughts, and kids with pinecones and bumblebees and open sky above us mile after mile after mile, all through that, what was real, what was around us dominated.†
Part 4dominated = controlled; or was most influential or powerful
- But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.†
Part Aft.dominates = controls; or is most influential or powerful
- The sweep of the hills is greater than before and they now dominate everything else, except the sky, which seems wider.†
Part 1
- Zen Buddhists talk about "just sitting," a meditative practice in which the idea of a duality of self and object does not dominate one's consciousness.†
Part 3
- What I'm talking about here in motorcyele maintenance is "just fixing," in which the idea of a duality of self and object doesn't dominate one's consciousness.†
Part 3
- Some kids come in on a truck and stop and all pile off and come into the restaurant and sort of dominate it.†
Part 3
- Under Aristotle the "Reader," whose knowledge of Trojan areté seems conspicuously absent, forms and substances dominate all.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(dominate) to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, domination can refer to a high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.