All 5 Uses of
autocracy
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- She was as wrinkled as an old paper bag, an autocrat, hard-shelled and Jesuitical, a pouncy old hawk of a Bolshevik, her small ribboned gray feet immobile on the shoekit and stool Simon had made in the manual-training class, dingy old wool Winnie whose bad smell filled the flat on the cushion beside her.†
Chpt 1
- He was a man who needed someone beside him continually; the things that had to be done for him made him autocratic.†
Chpt 5 *
- Selfish, jealous, autocratic, carp-mouth, and hypocritical.†
Chpt 6
- Also his face was larger, and rude, autocratic.†
Chpt 21
- Nevertheless, with his autocratic blue eyes darkening, he looked at me and asked, "Augie, you don't think you're superior to me because you have no money, do you?"†
Chpt 21
Definition:
a political or managerial system governed by a single individual