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Day 1,983: overbearing, rebuke


Many people in America hope that the new Trump administration will take an axe to a bloated and overbearing government, cutting spending and rolling back regulation.

And he is a principled rebuke to opportunistic populism, of the sort practised by Donald Trump.


Artwork of the day 
Nathan Rebukes David, as in 2 Samuel 120
James_Tissot
Style: Realism
Genre: religious painting
Media: watercolor

Word of the day 
overbearing: too confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant:
rebuke: to speak angrily to someone because you disapprove of what they have said or done:

Quote of the day
“Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.”

Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

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