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Under its slapstick shenanigans, this modest movie offers a convincing vision of Nixon White House operations as a sordid buffoon show undone by a couple of painfully earnest innocents: It's nature's revenge on the overweening.
in the dual role of the overweening 17 th century boy king Louis of France and his twin brother, Philippe, who was first spirited away at birth by a father fearful of internecine struggles and subsequently locked in the bowels of the Bastille, his features concealed by the eponymous iron mask.
While watching a televised Giants game, indulging his overweening passion for football, he collapses from alcoholic exhaustion.
There was this band called Iron Butterfly and this 18-minute song called "In A Gadda Da Vita" and that just seemed overweening.
The revolution of 1776, for instance, was fueled in part by the colonists' resentment of the overweening powers of royal judges.