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Some foreign players, such as Iran and Russia, have seen for now at least the curtailment of the overweening influence they once had.

But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.

The single-actor format and clever use of camerawork give visual expression to the novel’s themes of overweening egotism and existential dread.

I have long sided unreservedly with Truman on the issue — not so much on principle, I must admit, as because of MacArthur’s overweening, self-aggrandizing arrogance.

It’s as if their mother’s overweening nature couldn’t be defeated; it could only be eclipsed.