0 using, showing, or relating to the unfair and cruel use of power over other people in a country, group, etc. -- 残暴的；专制的
When rulers exercised tyrannical powers, the ulema stood up for justice to make them temper their conduct.
The family might of course, as we mentioned, support such splits with sharp dissociations between their public, proper world and their private, tyrannical one.
On the other hand, raw material is not as tyrannical as one might think.
The fear is that if such a thing ever becomes a reality it could hardly avoid being tyrannical or at least authoritarian.
What they needed was a firm and tyrannical hand to shape their contributions into something far more focussed.
Then, dominant goods serve as the means of dominating people; they create personal subordination, and ultimately, subjection to tyrannical rule.
Within this political framework, the weak checks on the imperial and tyrannical ambitions of the monarch are symptomatic of a state corrupted by peace.
I like things that are gripped by an absolute, tyrannical idea, which shines through a completely rebarbative surface.
