The tempter stood by him, too,--blinded by furious,
despotic will,--every moment pressing him to shun that agony by the betrayal of the innocent.
The public is
despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.
On one side the religious multitude, with their sad visages and dark attire, and on the other, the group of
despotic rulers, with the high churchman in the midst, and here and there a crucifix at their bosoms, all magnificently clad, flushed with wine, proud of unjust authority, and scoffing at the universal groan.
To her, Monsieur de Valois was a despotic monarch who did right in all things.
"Here am I," said Suzanne, sitting down on the bed and jangling the curtain-rings back along the rod with despotic vehemence.
Razumov, as has been seen, was aware of more subtle ways in which an individual may be undone by the proceedings of a
despotic Government.
In general, it appears that all differences between egalitarian and
despotic societies in DomWorld resemble those found between real groups of egalitarian and
despotic macaques as far as they have actually been measured.
An enormous mobile, an amusing and anxiety-producing machine, L'Araignee (The spider), 2001, dominated the space around it, forcing spectators to watch its passage as it pushed ahead in a way that was both lithesome and
despotic. With its bowler hat and its crossed eyes, The Spider, vaguely echoing the paintings of George Grosz or Chaplin's Great Dictator, acted as both fairground attraction and allegory of terror.
We read her fist shaking angrily at the
despotic odds African Americans face daily in doing "what we do out of grief, sadness, depression ...
Still others claim that the nickname comes from the
despotic way he fired his employees.