power-tripping love

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  • noun The practice of engaging in power trips

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Examples

  • As I walked up to the second station I was greeted by two power-tripping guards that quickly welcomed me into the reality of the horrors of governmental and private company unions and their inane bureaucracies.

    Discourse.net: Law on the Ground 2009

  • The term for this sort of thing is "triumphalism," and the aims are always the same: deliberate offence, humiliation, power-tripping.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • This is the doctor whose power-tripping secretary always insists that I come in for refills, and the earliest appointment I could get was next week.

    Story + Cards s00j 2009

  • We get to see Adama choking Boomer, Colonel Tigh (Michael Hogan) power-tripping while hitting the bottle, Cali flipping out with a gun, the president claiming to be a prophet and dividing the fleet ... even Number Six (Tricia Helfer) is almost tolerable this season.

    Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0 2008

  • At least the president gets moderately tolerable after she stops being Miss Perfect and starts power-tripping.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Kirkpatrick seems on a mission to rehabilitate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and to a certain extent he succeeds, suggesting Zuckerberg's reputation as the petulant, erratic, power-tripping brat who doesn't give a damn is misguided.

    Don Tapscott: Changing the World, One Friend at a Time 2010

  • Kirkpatrick seems on a mission to rehabilitate Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and to a certain extent he succeeds, suggesting Zuckerberg's reputation as the petulant, erratic, power-tripping brat who doesn't give a damn is misguided.

    Don Tapscott: Changing the World, One Friend at a Time 2010

  • The same thing would happen if all three committee members were men and one guy was an overbearing, power-tripping jerk.

    How To Respond? 2008

  • We get to see Adama choking Boomer, Colonel Tigh (Michael Hogan) power-tripping while hitting the bottle, Cali flipping out with a gun, the president claiming to be a prophet and dividing the fleet ... even Number Six (Tricia Helfer) is almost tolerable this season.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • At least the president gets moderately tolerable after she stops being Miss Perfect and starts power-tripping.

    Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 2008

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