overawing

And he puts forward a description of two institutional settings within which social action takes place: the state of nature, where no "overawing" political institutions exist; and the sovereign state, where a single sovereign power imposes a set of laws regulating individuals' actions.

Hobbes an institutionalist? Daniel Little 2009

And he puts forward a description of two institutional settings within which social action takes place: the state of nature, where no "overawing" political institutions exist; and the sovereign state, where a single sovereign power imposes a set of laws regulating individuals' actions.

Archive 2009-03-01 Daniel Little 2009

Like any people with a larger and busier government overawing the private sector and civil society?

Matthew Yglesias » Where Do Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru Get Their Policy Models From 2010

Like any people with a larger and busier government overawing the private sector and civil society?

Matthew Yglesias » Mass Transit is As American as Apple Pie 2010

At its most specific and physical, our contemporary vision is based on the aged and fragile remnants of the old Wunderkammern, which appear to us intimate, tactile and many-layered, with apparently whimsical taxonomies which depended on the personal world-view of the collector - very different from the sublime and overawing superstructure of the museums which they later became.

Archive 2008-11-01 Heather McDougal 2008

That is atypical, to be sure, the church is large and overawing to the uncertain group singer — i.e., to most non-Protestant Americans.

Leap Year -- Day John 2008

That Washington, a city of white marble palaces with splendid staircases, overawing halls and ornate assembly rooms, still rules how many people think of today's Washington.

Architecture: Comparing Paul Philippe Cret and John Carl Warnecke 2010

Different if not startling, stimulating if not overawing.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

A lot of boys liked to say they had had sex, and how many times, and with how many girls, but it was an ironic thing that with the proof came overawing dread.

King boy J. E. Cammon 2010

At its most specific and physical, our contemporary vision is based on the aged and fragile remnants of the old Wunderkammern, which appear to us intimate, tactile and many-layered, with apparently whimsical taxonomies which depended on the personal world-view of the collector - very different from the sublime and overawing superstructure of the museums which they later became.

Blogs as Wunderkammern Heather McDougal 2008