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.
