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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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Athens began its policy of preventive war by imposing harsh economic sanctions on the Spartan satellites, and when these smaller communities resisted such Athenian heavy-handedness, Athens imposed her will at the point of a sword. As bad as much of this is, Parker leavens it with an understated charm and a light touch that ameliorates the series' pervasive heavy-handedness. In the Ohnesorg chapter he centers this narrative around the repressive heavy-handedness of the West Berlin government and its police response, in the Dutschke chapter around the brutalized rhetoric of Bild-Zeitung and the Springer press. |
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