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.