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Nixon's statesmanlike response was to fund a secret investigative team to bedevil Ellsberg and anyone else whom Nixon, in his overweening paranoia and narcissism, deemed a risk to "national security."
They represented fundamental splits--between supporters of constitutional democracy and its opponents, between friends and enemies of human rights, between people who believe in limited government and those who want an overweening state.
There was this band called Iron Butterfly and this 18-minute song called "In A Gadda Da Vita" and that just seemed 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.
The revolution of 1776, for instance, was fueled in part by the colonists' resentment of the overweening powers of royal judges.