Noel Edmonds

There are too many organisations - and the BBC is a fabulous organisation - that seem to think it's OK to badger, hector and threaten people.

English Producer

David Frost

If you don't have the smoking gun, then it's pointless to hector interviewees. Because you just shut people up instead of opening them up.

English Journalist

Bret Stephens

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

American Journalist

Fat Joe

Hector Lavoe is the greatest of all time. Marc Anthony is the second greatest.

American Musician

Jamey Sheridan

Hector Elizondo and Adam Arkin were two guys I liked a lot.

American Actor

It expresses disapproval and strong annoyance at someone's behavior.

Negative Nuance

Commonly used in informal conversations rather than formal writing.

Colloquial Use

Often used when someone uses their position to dominate or control someone else.

Power Dynamics

Used to describe someone with consistently overbearing behavior.

Characterization

A hector often implies they have control or authority over others.

Implication of Control

It invokes an image of a person who is not just assertive but aggressively domineering.

Aggressive Undertone

 get a little dirty all right i just need some kind of destruction yeah it looks like uh some concrete you hit a cave-in a potential collapse forces pittman and hector to change tactics

Smoke Out PIPE Border Wars

 Hector and bad I weigh up their battle plans lives are at stake gremlins out on her own she must find

Hector

Negative Nuance

Colloquial Use

Power Dynamics

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