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heavy-handed 1. if you try to control someone or something in a heavy-handed way, you use more force than is necessary or suitable. His heavy-handed style of management is extremely unpopular. 2. if an attempt to tell or teach someone something is heavy-handed, it is too obvious. The theme of drug abuse is treated in a way that is convincing without being heavy-handed. |
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While I remain unsure of what he's trying to get at with all of that, one thing did become clear by ``States of Grace's'' heavy-handedly symbolic ending: Dutcher believes that forgiveness is one of the highest manifestations of divine love. The dominant Japanese understanding of Dulles, for instance, has him as the quintessential Cold War warrior who heavy-handedly locked Japan into America's global struggle against communism. The Bush administration is banking on it as it heavy-handedly attempts to scale back the AIDS infrastructure created through the Ryan White CARE Act. |
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