How To Use Imperious In A Sentence

She sent them away with an imperious wave of the hand.
What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he is yours. Othello
She extended her hand with the imperious manner of someone who'd been at the same job long enough to harbor illusions of irreplaceability. When The Bough Breaks
He increased his feigned ardour for the bushwoman, at the same time increasing the imperiousness of his will of desire over her to be led to look upon the Red One face to face. THE RED ONE
What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours. Othello, the Moor of Venice

The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
She negotiates the most incredibly florid passages with imperious authority, and she sings with the passion that other mezzos reserve for Amneris or Eboli.
A person , who is imperious and tries to gloss over his fault, is bound to suffer in the end.
Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
I am stopped mid-anecdote by an imperious tap on my shoulder.
[Be] sly and artful in his behaviour to some, and imperious and cruel to others; being under a kind of necessity to ill-use all the persons of whom he stood in need, when he could not frighten them into compliance, and did not judge it his interest to be useful to them. Ashley Rindsberg: Mr. President, You Are Sick With Self Love
Today, Madame X presents a sphinx-like figure - beautiful, imperious, and impenetrable.
Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious.
They did not look at their imperious best in the first leg of this tie, either. Times, Sunday Times
It's spiteful, but watching an imperious mog getting an intermittent soaking is just very funny. Times, Sunday Times
‘Rise,’ the empress commanded imperiously, her voice, a high-pitched shriek.
Ready for prompt action, he bent toward his yokemate, and whispered imperiously: Joshua — Volume 5
Egypt another paradise, now barbarous and desert, and almost waste, by the despotical government of an imperious Turk, intolerabili servitutis jugo premitur ([483] one saith) not only fire and water, goods or lands, sed ipse spiritus ab insolentissimi victoris pendet nutu, such is their slavery, their lives and souls depend upon his insolent will and command. Anatomy of Melancholy
With the impatient imperiousness of an Oxfordshire schoolmarm, O'Donnell's Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, lectured, "The First Amendment, the First Amendment establishes ... that there is a separation of church and state that our courts and our laws must respect. Dr. Jonathan David Farley: Witch's Brouhaha: Is Christine O'Donnell Right about the First Amendment, Mice and Men?
If McRae's voice has a brittle edge, the phrasing is imperious.
He is haughty and imperious: He is a proud man, and his pride is a certain presage of his fall coming on. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent. CHAPTER XI
The Belgian was in imperious form when he was fit in the autumn and his team's results reflected that as they looked almost unbeatable. The Sun
The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another! The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
This fetishization of asexuality gives way to an imperious and isolated priesthood, an aloof caste of men whose holiness is far too greatly predicated upon the choice not to have sex. Michele Somerville: Sex and the City of God, Part 2: Celibacy and Sexuality in the Catholic Church
Have his imperious manner, refusal to answer questions and gratuitous insults to critics betrayed a complacency that upsets voters? Times, Sunday Times
Imperious piebald porkers parked in the middle of the roads challenge you to run over them.
With their erect posture and heavily lidded eyes, the Eastern screech owls we are examining at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel look like imperious matrons. Duck, duck, owl: Patuxent research center is for the birds
With his lithe figure, blond hair and imperious demeanour, he also looked special. Times, Sunday Times
So here she is on this bus, and the elderly gent sitting next to her is transfixed by the perfectly coiffed, frosted blonde hair, the imperious cheekbones and the effortlessly elegant, straight-backed deportment.
Both these batsmen look imperious when they are playing the outgoing ball, since they cut and square drive really well.
She was now in her late seventies, although her blue-rinsed hair, plucked and penciled eyebrows, and imperious manner betrayed a vanity undiminished by the years. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Whether singing, rapping or doing a strutting hybrid of the two, she was imperious here. Times, Sunday Times
The awkward driving position feels lofty and imperious.
Sleep had not scored a ton in the league since 1996 but made up for lost time with an imperious 151 not out.
It is a name to evoke the eternal battle between a furious sea and an immovable land, watched by an imperious sky. Times, Sunday Times
But Ellington, a duke with an imperious streak, never wanted Strayhorn to stray far from his empire.
She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown.
He practically wheeled full round, sweeping the gallery with a commanding, imperious glare. GOTHIC PURSUIT
It's safe to say her imperious streak has been running on high here lately.
I was driven, obsessive (still am) and Don was imperious, incommunicative.
Their humble attire did little to detract from the air of imperious authority they exuded, however.
When an organisation can count the police and elected officials as its co-conspirators it seems impervious to outside attack, imperious even, impermeable and unbreachable. Nick Abbot: The Fall Of An Empire?
… Collectively these newcomers wielded billions of dollars of available capital, petawatts of imperious brainpower, a practiced disdain for bureaucratic pettifogs, and Olympian con ﬁ dence in their own judgment and capabilities. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
The professor was as imperious as ever.
It is too early to call on the slim evidence so far but there was something about Novak Djokovic's imperious dismissal of his French bunny, Jérémy Chardy, that suggests he has built up serious reserves of energy for the seven-match campaign by sidestepping Queen's after the rigours of Paris. Novak Djokovic begins Wimbledon campaign with win over Jérémy Chardy
And up to this period, when his more direct action on political affairs had only just begun, it is probable that his imperious need of ascendancy had burned undiscernibly in the strong flame of his zeal for Romola
This 1963 play, which flopped twice in a row on Broadway, is one of Williams's ripest exercises in Southern-fried Gothicism, a parable about a rich, imperious and scared old lady with the improbable name of Flora Goforth (Olympia Dukakis) who is dictating her memoirs to an uptight Ivy League prig (Maggie Lacey) in a frantic attempt to set the record straight before she dies of cancer. The Most Sweetly Delectable Musical
Equality is the soul of friendship: marriage, to give delight, must join two minds, not devote a slave to the will of an imperious lord; whatever conveys the idea of subjection necessarily destroys that of love, of which I am so convinced, that I have always wished the word obey expunged from the marriage ceremony. The History of Emily Montague
Accrington have been in imperious form. Times, Sunday Times
The English bowman, or billman, who carried a large axe or bill, was a strong, healthy, well-fed man; and though he had not perfect freedom, according to our modern acceptation of the term, he had an existence worth struggling for, and not entirely at the command of an imperious lord. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852
By the utmost self-violence, I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which sometimes desired to declare itself to the whole world; and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice. Chapter 22
I think that he looked a bit complacent last season but now he looks imperious. The Sun
A highly regarded consultant and teaching doctor, I found her manner imperious and domineering.
Then there is Button, who has been in imperious form. Times, Sunday Times
Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
imperiously he cut her short
But the giant duo strode imperiously through the mud during the second half to set up Saints' two match-clinching tries.
Portia sat at the row behind them, filing her nails and looking imperiously haughty.
What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours. Elson Grammar School Literature v4
The first is the title track, a rocky soul belter which sounds very similar indeed to En Vogue's imperious ‘Free Your Mind’ and is nearly as rousing.
He turned, still imperious, to the table, placing in the center of its well a small glass beaker, which he filled from a flask until slivovitz reached a marked level circumference. The DreydelMaker (exerpt)
Technical people too often seem distant, effete, imperious, and even pompous.
In the first version of the centre panel of the triptych, Bacon incorporated an unsettling, confrontational figure that peered back imperiously at the viewer through schematic binoculars.
Although the news did not force its way on to the Evening Press front page, the imperious prose inside captured the significance of the moment.
Could it be that she is a tad on the imperious side?
There, stepping from his car in the shadow of the castle, is Christopher Lee, still imperious at 82 with his gold fob and frock coat.
All the same, he appeared a pretty imperious figure on casual encounter.
Her playing conjured up the tremulous voice and imperious manner without quite replacing it.
It imperiously overruled not only the Florida court but also the federal appeals court in Atlanta.
But this imperious petulance, curiously as it contrasts with the patience which, a little later, she will display, is native to Ottima; she is not the victim of her nerves this morning, though now she passes without transition to a mood of sensuous cajolement -- Browning's Heroines
[1] Believe me, dear Mother that the inexpressable pleasure I feel in composing these tales and Ballads; and the honest pride of haveing proved; (against the imperious and unnatural opinions of some of the learned,) that a poor man may possess qualities which they are forced to admire, will allways be equal to any temporary vexations which are likely to fall to my lot. Letter 66
Several former employees complained she could be imperious and unpleasant, which they say poisoned the work atmosphere.
You could roll your eyes at her maudlin excesses and her spiritual imperiousness, but you couldn't deny her clout, or her courage.
In Florida, he was in imperious form. Times, Sunday Times
The opening pair found him on top form, imperious, then mellifluous. Times, Sunday Times
We feel quite humiliated on our lonely ferry-boat as these leviathans of nautical architecture sweep past us with an imperious curve far out into the stream, and then move steadily and statelily down the middle of the river, like an "ugly duckling" of mammoth proportions. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
Her love of MacTavish Mhor had been qualified by respect and sometimes even by fear, for the cateran was not the species of man who submits to female government; but over his son she had exerted, at first during childhood, and afterwards in early youth, an imperious authority, which gave her maternal love a character of jealousy. Chronicles of the Canongate
He was not a big man, but his voice boomed, and his hands were meaty, and in repose there was something august about his heavy midwestern features: pale blue eyes that, in the absence of hopefulness, might have looked severe; prominent, straight nose and heavy jowls that, in the absence of mirth, might have seemed imperious and disapproving. Excerpt: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another! The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
A man who controls 100 people with a single imperious gesture is visibly demonstrating what power really means.
Brooks was clearly amused by her friend's dandified appearance, bone-thin in foppish drag, complete with masculine-cut jacket, high collar, monocle, bobbed hair and imperiously arched eyebrows.
They won yesterday's semi-final in typically imperious fashion and will surely repeat the trick in the final today. Times, Sunday Times
No man was worth more than a thousand a year, he announced in typically imperious fashion. Times, Sunday Times
Next we see her dining alone in the posh Søllerød Inn, pleading poverty to the imperious waiter, and then biting into her crust of bread, like a Chaplin gamine, when she first encounters the spass of the idiot-group of the title.
He was also anxious and imperious in equal measure, and driven to an endless activity of rewriting that has no parallel I can think of among novelists.
The plutocratic autocracy that is the White House has been imperiously dismissive of America's Constitutional systems of checks and balances, attempting to govern by executive fiat.
The students enter a dean's office far too casually, and throw themselves and their belongings about rather too imperiously.
He advances to Doherty's fourth ball and lifts it imperiously over mid-on for a one-bounce four. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
In January 1897 Kipling's latest volume of poetry, The Seven Seas, prompted a rave from the usually imperious Harvard savant Charles Eliot Norton, whose esteem for the poems was no doubt colored by his close friendship with the Kipling family. Who Was Kipling?
he was aggressive and imperious; positive in his convictions
To those I would add presumptuous, imperious, overweening and authoritarian.
In the first two rounds of yesterday's keirin, he looked imperious. Times, Sunday Times
She was Lady; imperious and temperamental wisp of thoroughbred caninity. Further Adventures of Lad
In the past, Percy served as comic relief, a stuffed shirt whose obsequiousness toward authority figures was matched only by his imperiousness toward younger students.
As Zoysa dropped short, Mongia hooked him imperiously for six to hoist India's 50.
Contemplating her career, it is hard not to be reminded of another equally imperious and volatile performer from the golden age of Hollywood, namely Genova, the ghost story Winterbottom's working on featuring James Mottram's Winterbottom profile in the London Times GreenCine Daily
With no fear of losing, lawmakers become more arrogant and imperious, less open to compromise.
Her voice was strident and imperious and the clothes weren't exactly demure. Times, Sunday Times
He chose a site for an aviary and gave very exact and imperious directions as to the materials and measurements.
Our little lord, perched imperiously in his howdah, was gradually succumbing to the chill wind out of the south.
She surveyed the thirty or so guests somewhat imperiously, then, spotting Patrick, headed directly over to him. SACRAMENT
* * * The Mercedes swept imperiously down the outside lane of the autobahn, Krasic at the wheel. THE LAST TEMPTATION
Her attitude is imperious at times.
He was in imperious form until his big end bearing let him down. Times, Sunday Times
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand had decreed so in 1893 with an imperious gesture, and his arbitrary demarcation is still known as the Durand Line. The Perils of Partition
And he beckoned imperiously to a neighbouring group of men, -- "bloods" -- always ready to follow him in a "rag," and heroes together with him of a couple of famous bonfires, in Falloden's first year. Lady Connie
I liked watching the meticulously-curated history of Singapore, especially the old photographs of rickshaw drivers and their imperious "memsahib" passengers during Singapore's heyday as a British colony, at the Singapore Historical Museum. Dana Kennedy: Strict Singapore May Be the Most Surprising Place on Earth
Count, grannam, count!" she cried imperiously, "and if't is not enough I've my little _churi_ for the first as dare touch me! Peregrine's Progress
Callers range from the imperious to the crawling, from the famous (represented by their minions) to the social climbers, from nabobs to Mafiosi.
It is absolutely hair-raising how Brahms shakes his fist at the heavens and this Olympian, this imperious music would rise over this timpani which is thundering in the background," says Fleisher. Glory, Drama Mark Path of Piano Virtuoso
Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious.
They exude a true gothic sense of imperious detachment.
Kate had also already found that her aunt could be imperious; but this taste for masterdom had not shown itself so plainly in London as it did from the moment that the train had left the station at Shoreditch. Can You Forgive Her?
She raised her hand in an imperious gesture.
Its imperiousness is an offense that cannot be avenged without weapons, without tools, without human ingenuity.
It's notoriously easy to hit the wrong tone and come off sharp, imperious or brusque in e-mail when you don't intend to.
It's spiteful, but watching an imperious mog getting an intermittent soaking is just very funny. Times, Sunday Times
It's notoriously easy to hit the wrong tone and come off sharp, imperious or brusque in e-mail when you don't intend to.
His imperious bulk, even his accent, counted against him and when he was found to have fiddled the books he appeared to be beyond redemption.
Again," said the Lord of Asgard, with an imperious motion of his head, his voice deep and commanding. AMERICAN GODS
A round-faced chef of indeterminate gender was very imperiously ordering around another androgynous person in a karate uniform, while some lady chopped carrots for no discernible reason.
She looked as imperious and haughty as ever; her graying blue-silver hair swept up into an intricate coif, the elaborate detail of its design matching even her extravagant evening gown.
Even his friends concede that Pillsbury can be difficult, being something of a diva, hot-tempered and imperious.
What, man! there are ways to recover the general again: you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he’s yours. Othello, the Moore of Venice
Flatterers, and even the tutor himself, stimulated the extravagant imperiousness of the crown-prince, while Martini (professor of natural law) found in him an eager student of physiocracy -- a doctrine which affected profoundly Joseph's mind, firing him with an enthusiasm for current views, the "rights of man", and the welfare of the people. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Yet this apparent stonewalling has exasperated the Hong Kong press, which portrays her as imperious and arrogant.
He was once again imperious in a Scotland pack which dominated the home forwards for lengthy spells of an otherwise one-sided match.
Throughout its second half, he tries to draw a contrast between Webster's democratic, "common man" approach to lexicography and his supposedly imperious behavior. A Definitive American Life
A drawing of the kime was imperiously called for; and the want of it is a subtle evasion, for which Mr. Styles is fairly accountable. Sydney Smith
Nor was the government only, but also the glory of the English nation changed; distinction of orders confounded, the gentry outbraved, and the nobility, who voted the bishops out of their dignities in parliament, by the just judgment of God thrust out themselves, and brought under the scorn and imperious lash of a beggar on horseback; Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
But he was an imperious, arrogant and touchy bishop. The Times Literary Supplement
Its ceremonial gateway towers over the city below, grand and imperious.
Memorable too were actor Liu Yilong as the hilarious Taoist nun Stone; and Ji Zhenhua as the imperious, crafty and hard-hearted governor Du Bao (who refuses to accept his resurrected daughter).
It was an alchemy of soul occultly subtile and profoundly deep -- a mysterious emanation of the spirit, seductive, sweetly humble, and terribly imperious. THE SEED OF McCOY
Observers have known about his childish imperiousness forever and and it has been easily discerned by those in the public who care to see, in his press conferences andpublic appearances. Hullabaloo
That is the odd thing about my life: the things I longed intensely to do I would not let myself do, not from any religious or moral scruple, but from some inexplicable fastidiousness or scrupulosity which is yet as active as ever, although I am sure that it would not be able to hold its own could these favorable conditions be repeated, but would be overcome by the imperious and fully grown desires which, by long repression, or by unsatisfactory diversion, have grown to be so strong. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion
By the utmost self-violence I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which sometimes desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice. Frankenstein
At 190 mph the car feels imperiously stable, like the USS Enterprise at warp speed.
The institution has been and continues to be rife with examples of imperious pastors operating on whim and arbitrarily overriding consensual decisions.
The imperious, self-involved mother dotes over her baby girl's hair and slyly inveigles the child to continue with her brilliant career as a shoplifter.
He too, advanced to the foot of the catasta and there faced the imperious beauty, whom the whole city had, for the past two years, tacitly agreed to obey in all things. "Unto Caesar"
Increasingly imperious and distracted, Nathaniel is treating Bartimaeus worse than ever. Ptolemy's Gate: Summary and book reviews of Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud.
Likewise, Cameron's relation to her subjects does look hard and controlling, imperious at times, even queenly, and this is as much a part of its significance in a circle of mothers and daughters as its tenderness.
That the glory of their house, from very small beginnings, is increased greatly, which naturally makes men haughty, insolent, and imperious, Ps.v. 16. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
His recovery was not in this instance due to the calling on himself for the rescue of an ancient and glorious country; nor altogether to the spectacle of the shipping, over the parapet, to his right: the hundreds of masts rising out of the merchant river; London's unrivalled mezzotint and the City 'rhetorician's inexhaustible argument: he gained it rather from the imperious demand of an animated and thirsty frame for novel impressions. One of Our Conquerors — Complete
Her voice was strident and imperious and the clothes weren't exactly demure. Times, Sunday Times
There was constant and imperious excitement, with the sense of vibration, tension, pressure, dilatation and tickling, accompanied, it may be, by some ovarian congestion, for she felt that on the left side there was a network of sexual nerves, and retroversion of the uterus was detected some years later. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
‘We have a parlor,’ she said imperiously, straightening the lace edgings on the pillow.
She looked down at him, a haughty and imperious expression on her little face.
I surveyed the lot of them, adopting a gaze and attitude so imperious that one would have thought I could have caused them to discorporate with a single harsh word. Sir Apropos of Nothing
It's true that she had a pretty imperious manner, but Granny never believed that one human being could be set above another by an accident of birth.
I wasn't a distant or imperious art director - I was right in there with them all the time.
His attacks on elite perquisites, and his imperious treatment of subordinates, made him anathema to the powerful party machine.
The greater the danger the loftier was his spirit; he reviewed his guard, and acquainted them with General Leclerc's imperious determination. Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
All the same, he appeared a pretty imperious figure on casual encounter.
I just raised my hand in an imperious manner. Times, Sunday Times
What! man; there are ways to recover the general again; you are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion. Act II. Scene III. Othello, the Moor of Venice
With his lithe figure, blond hair and imperious demeanour, he also looked special. Times, Sunday Times
From a trompe l'oeil window on one side of the Palazzotto, a frescoed woman looks down, faintly mocking, faintly imperious.
Spell out the screeve," ordered the R.E. Reserve man imperiously. The Dop Doctor
The elderly gentleman sitting next to her is transfixed by the perfectly coiffed, frosted blonde hair, the imperious cheekbones and the effortlessly elegant, straight-backed deportment.
Look imperious but just this side of utterly terrifying. Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
The ship canted, slipping from its high and imperious plane as three missiles slammed into the armour, their icy casings erupting into a sundering coldfire ball that burned in the craters.
As a result he, too, was back to something like his imperious best.
There is nothing of the bluff and blustery manner, or the mean looks and imperious nature with which he had brought to life several characters in quick succession, the previous day.
Well below his imperious best and fatigue is a real concern before his return to Chile for international duty. Times, Sunday Times
Squill waved an imperious hand and revisited an apologia designed for budget-request meetings. THE HUNDREDTH MAN

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