All 13 Uses of

tyranny

in

The Sunlight Dialogues

The tyrannic scent of May was in the air; it was the time when young hearts blossom and burgeon, and boys try to think of heroic deeds.†
Chpt Pro.

He sounded now incredibly like one of those lawyers summing up, tyrannical and grandiose.†
Chpt 1 *

…looking at the floor and smiling as if ruefully, almost evilly, one might have thought (mistakenly), their jaws slung forward, their two large backs identically hunched below their shaggy, balding domes, shaggy eyebrows identically lowered, each man a caricature of the other, both humbler versions of the white-haired, militarily erect and awesomely fat United States Congressman who had tyrannized what was in effect the same room in another part of town before Will Hodge Jr was born.†
Chpt 3

What the old man was unable to manage directly (and would not have wanted to manage anyhow, being a moral person) his ghost had managed indirectly: he tyrannized Hodge--if a thing so trifling was worth a big word like tyranny--through Millie his wife (or former wife), Will Jr, and Luke, his sons.†
Chpt 3

What the old man was unable to manage directly (and would not have wanted to manage anyhow, being a moral person) his ghost had managed indirectly: he tyrannized Hodge--if a thing so trifling was worth a big word like tyranny--through Millie his wife (or former wife), Will Jr, and Luke, his sons.†
Chpt 3

But however unnecessary the thing might be, it was also inevitable: the trifling tyranny, again, of the Congressman's ghost.†
Chpt 3

Not an end to marriage and family but a new beginning, an end to old tyrannies, a beginning of agreement.†
Chpt 5

He returned from the cellar a changed man--exuberant, expansive, tyrannical.†
Chpt 12

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