Examples of imperious

• We can take off the hat of the imperious decisionmaker with the moral imperative to preserve life at almost any cost.

• The gestures themselves are brilliantly atmospheric and often imperious in their power, but the inner coherence of the score is not easy to find.

• The imperious boy commands the street, to which access is via the main door of a grand building behind.

• That acting style has to be large, imperious, and histrionic - which in no way means hollow, bombastic, or artificial.

• Often imperious in her financial arrangements with composers, she rewarded some with ducat-stuffed jewelled snuffboxes but failed to pay others at all.

• Along the boulevards and avenues they are like an open-air salesroom, a popular gallery of rich tonality, with imperious and suggestive callings.

• Their rise up the ladder of economic and cultural security has made them as imperious about their religious values as the people they formerly regarded as their oppressors.

• The pose she adopts here seems to have been characteristic, almost as if the publicly disseminated images aimed to contradict the diva's growing reputation as imperious and unbending.

• Redistributive accumulation finds a particularly powerful additional propellant in the ' jealousy ' of a neighbour, colleague or relative, and in the imperious necessity to best him as far as possible.

• Our fears have allowed the doctors to act with imperious authority, cloaking their lack of knowledge in our greater ignorance.

• I say that it is to satisfy an impatient and imperious vanity.

• In all quarters we see him adopting the imperious, arrogant method.

• She and her helpers send us imperious messages and rush around to increase the vote.

• She was saying that, instead of using the term "consistent", which she regarded as "imperative"or imperious, we should accept the term"have regard to".

• To throw those assets away because of the imperious vanity of one person would be inexcusable folly.