However, a woman who insists on such control is often depicted, in the music press as in popular culture more generally, as a 'difficult', hysterical, insecure,controlfreak.
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It is acontrolfreakto the highest degree.
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Is he prepared to get his owncontrolfreaktendency under control?
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He does not like being called acontrolfreak.
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He was known as something of acontrolfreakin his time.
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If he feels the need to behave like acontrolfreak, we might at least be told why.
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Its aims are irreproachable, but the machinery provided is "controlfreak" machinery.
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We hear a lot about thecontrolfreaktendency.
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He is a well-knowncontrolfreak.
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The media describes a hard-working perfectionist with clear self-direction who is occasionally regarded as competitive and acontrolfreak.
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She is an emotional type, and a bit of a self-confessedcontrolfreak, especially when it comes to her daughters.
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The married man is standing on the red light, can't move a finger without the approval of hiscontrolfreakwife.
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She is a pathological personality, the textbook definition of acontrolfreak.
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She is a perfectionist and acontrolfreak; however, she can be just as lazy as her husband.
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Recovery for them entails recognising that being acontrolfreakhelped paradoxically preserve codependency itself.
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