overlings

At it stands, the overlings try to have it both ways, like parents who try to be buddies with their children, refusing to accept the full price of being the grown-up.

2009 July 23 « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2009

The goal of reintroducing structure in roles is not to make underlings know their place, but to make overlings know their place.

2009 July 23 « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2009

On the Moon, obligations between underlings and overlings had their strength, but it was the strength of a river, form and force incessantly changeable.

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

Reflex laughs from the underlings present, though only grim smiles from the overlings.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died,

The Years Between Rudyard Kipling 1900

Can one man get through to the Mayor without setting something up in advance, or dealing with handlers, underlings, overlings, mediumlings, gatekeepers, and other forms of People?

www.buzz.mn - 2009

3. While there is a limited class of overlings in the military who will tell you explicitly what they want, and commit the same to writing when there are hazards in the execution, your typical overling expects underlings to be able to read between the lines.

Awwwwwwkward. CC 2009

And ... if you say 'Lunarians* to me, do you perhaps mean the Selen-archic families-or the Cordilleran phratry-or simply its overlings? "

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

And. .. if you say 'Lunarians* to me, do you perhaps mean the Selen-archic families-or the Cordilleran phratry-or simply its overlings? "

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994

A blind item in today's Daily indicates so: "Which now-unemployed Belgian designer refused to look his underlings and overlings in the eye?

Coutorture dannysf 2009