She wins one modeling contest in Montana and suddenly she’s overweening.

No success rendered him overweening and no disaster was ever known to stagger his firmness.

The Senate was displaying an overweening hauteur as if it were the government.

The Valley prizes overweening ambition but expects it to be “rifle-focussed” on making the world’s best houseboat-rental platform or Cognac-delivery service.

The idea that an overweening federal government is a threat to both freedom and equality (not to mention prosperity) goes back to Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry and some other fairly respectable personages.

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