"Darth Vaderian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989 February 13, Kevin Harris, “Odd correlation”, in The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash., page B2, column 5",
          "text": "(What the heck is this “gun lobby” anyway? Am I it or is it some sort of Darth Vaderian conspiracy that manipulates the minds of innocent legislators?)",
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          "ref": "1990 March 11, Bud Collins, “The changing winds of Atlanta”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 237, number 70, page A3, column 3",
          "text": "Though crowded and dwarfed by Darth Vaderian upstarts such as the Equitable Life Building across from it, the 17-story Candler Building on Peachtree remains alone in its 1904 stylishness.",
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          "ref": "1990 August 12, Tom Barberi, “Barberi!”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 240, number 120, Salt Lake City, Utah, page 2B, column 2",
          "text": "Now that the “wall” has become a souvenir to be mounted on a plaque or picture frame and the lien between good guys and the “Evil Empire” with all its Darth Vaderian images is becoming more of a blur, there is evidence that those out there who live to protest something, anything, are getting desperate.",
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          "ref": "1995, James Riordan, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, pages 246–247",
          "text": "His [Oliver Stone’s] acceptance speech on September 17 concluded with the following lines: […] How can we possibly win against the overwhelming force of this government of the future, this Darth Vaderian empire?",
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          "ref": "1998 September 3, John J. Fried, “Forgetting to back up data? FileSitter automatically does it for you”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 95, page F2, column 4",
          "text": "They spring up only after you have clicked the right-hand button on your mouse, a secret that is revealed by a message to that effect several seconds after you have been left staring at this Darth Vaderian screen.",
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          "ref": "1999 May 1, Katherine Monk, “Empire of hype”, in The Vancouver Sun, page E1, column 3",
          "text": "And therein lies a very troubling reality about the Orwellian — perhaps even Darth Vaderian — measures increasingly employed by marketers of today’s mega-media products.",
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          "ref": "1999 May 9, Steven Rea, “Curse of the ‘Phantom’”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 170th year, number 343, page F5, column 4",
          "text": "To be sure, there will also be flops aplenty — misguided, mismarketed or simply amiss movies that would have tanked whether Phantom Menace was casting its Darth Vaderian shadow across the land.",
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          "ref": "1999 December 19, Franz Schurmann, “Peace hangs by a thread”, in The Fresno Bee, page G1",
          "text": "If even America has difficulties managing the world, none of the four even think about becoming a Darth Vaderian-style world empire.",
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          "ref": "2003 April 30, Sandy MacDonald, “‘Man of La Mancha’ is lavish but lacking”, in The Boston Globe, volume 263, number 120, page C3, column 4",
          "text": "Peter Edmund Haydu assaying triple roles, some of which employ his marvelous Darth Vaderian bass.",
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          "ref": "2009, Michael Czyzniejewski, Elephants in Our Bedroom, Dzanc Books, page 186",
          "text": "It seems like this is the moment, me covered in ice cream and my own guts, that Sanders is going to confront me with Darth Vaderian news.",
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          "ref": "2017, Scott Kenemore, Zombie-in-Chief: Eater of the Free World, Gollancz, published 2020",
          "text": "His heavy breathing fell to a Darth Vaderian murmur.",
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          "ref": "2021, Steve Marcone, Dave Philp, Managing Your Band: A Guide to Artist Management, 7th edition, Rowman & Littlefield, page 104",
          "text": "Thus don’t name your band Boozie Tromwellium & the Darth Vaderian Cosmonauts.",
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          "text": "It seems like this is the moment, me covered in ice cream and my own guts, that Sanders is going to confront me with Darth Vaderian news.",
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          "text": "His heavy breathing fell to a Darth Vaderian murmur.",
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