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. |
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Their humble attire did little to detract from the air of imperious authority they exuded, however. |
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A man who controls 100 people with a single imperious gesture is visibly demonstrating what power really means. |
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She looked down at him, a haughty and imperious expression on her little face. |
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And as he became the imperious head of a personality cult, he preached total freedom but demanded total fealty. |
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To those I would add presumptuous, imperious, overweening and authoritarian. |
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Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious. |
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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. |
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His attacks on elite perquisites, and his imperious treatment of subordinates, made him anathema to the powerful party machine. |
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A highly regarded consultant and teaching doctor, I found her manner imperious and domineering. |
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Technical people too often seem distant, effete, imperious, and even pompous. |
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Callers range from the imperious to the crawling, from the famous to the social climbers, from nabobs to Mafiosi. |
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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. |
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Her playing conjured up the tremulous voice and imperious manner without quite replacing it. |
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Both these batsmen look imperious when they are playing the outgoing ball, since they cut and square drive really well. |
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The commercial portrays him as an imperious billionaire who plays by his own rules. |
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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. |
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With no fear of losing, lawmakers become more arrogant and imperious, less open to compromise. |
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Several former employees complained she could be imperious and unpleasant, which they say poisoned the work atmosphere. |
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Sleep had not scored a ton in the league since 1996 but made up for lost time with an imperious 151 not out. |
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Yet this apparent stonewalling has exasperated the Hong Kong press, which portrays her as imperious and arrogant. |
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It's safe to say her imperious streak has been running on high here lately. |
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He was once again imperious in a Scotland pack which dominated the home forwards for lengthy spells of an otherwise one-sided match. |
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From a trompe l'oeil window on one side of the Palazzotto, a frescoed woman looks down, faintly mocking, faintly imperious. |
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It is imperious to have a coordination of the research activities in HAT and a setting of reflection for HAT control problems. |
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She lets the preacher run off at the mouth, undermining her strong arguments with her strident voice and imperious manner. |
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The cool, brilliant blue at the Doge's back has its own staginess, but its effect is to make him seem somewhat remotely imperious. |
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But there was an imperious air about their success on Sunday that suggests it is going to take a special side to dethrone them. |
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Mr Sisi has indeed looked imperious in his new role, seated impassively at grand rallies to celebrate the graduation of army and police cadets. |
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In the following issue, The Group was the subject of a snide, imperious review by Norman Mailer. |
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A trademark outfit is vital to sending out the right signals of imperious power as real-life dictators understand all too well. |
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A sally into America in 2007 by Tesco, a then imperious but now troubled British retailer, ended badly. |
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She negotiates the most incredibly florid passages with imperious authority, and she sings with the passion that other mezzos reserve for Amneris or Eboli. |
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He has since become essential to Juventus, an imperious presence in the centre for the Serie A leaders. |
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Defence of such a place is an imperious necessity and a honor, for the loss of it means the loss of everything making a Squat life worthwile. |
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Rui Costa, in imperious form on the right side of midfield against his countrymen, was the architect of the goal. |
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The institution has been and continues to be rife with examples of imperious pastors operating on whim and arbitrarily overriding consensual decisions. |
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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. |
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Lancs have been in imperious form of late and with the signings of Symonds and North, the county have real momentum as we approach the final run-in. |
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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. |
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If McRae's voice has a brittle edge, the phrasing is imperious. |
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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. |
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Its ceremonial gateway towers over the city below, grand and imperious. |
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As a result he, too, was back to something like his imperious best. |
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I was driven, obsessive and Don was imperious, incommunicative. |
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Due to the growing number of satellite schools in some provinces, it becomes imperious to strengthen the project steering teams by increasing the number of staff in charge of management both at the central and local level. |
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Tracy, the imperious slavocrat, clings desperately to slavery, the economic foundation of his wealth and power. |
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Downton's imperious dowager would be appalled. |
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The decline of the old-time imperious press barons coincided with the rise of professional journalists who insist that their first duty is not to the boss but to the reader. |
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Ms. Neuwirth brings an amusing touch of imperious asperity to her role as Malibran, but her naturally dry demeanor seems a strange fit for the character, who was famous for her tempestuousness. |
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Montgomerie, right, was in imperious form on the front nine making three birdies in the first five holes to help his team to three up. |
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He was venal, corrupt, cowardly and imperious. |
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The stonefaced superstar with the Mohican haircut was imperious as he blasted in his double before the break, leaving Germany stranded. |
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They are Canon Rampling, an upright and uptight clergyman, and his companion Warden Tidy, and the demanding, imperious Mrs. |
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Ian Bell, Warwickshire's top-order batsman, was imperious in his intent of thwarting Sussex's thoughts of a victory at Edgbaston Durham v Northamptonshire Northants give chase but Durham's Jamie Harrison hinders momentum. |
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Smith, as the doddery neurotic, is in imperious form, giving a performance saved from caricature by moments of pure, heartbreaking pathos. |
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Hitchens was a skilled and combative rhetorician with an imperious flair. |
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It was the same imperious gesture that I had seen used to the wolves. |
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For these imperious reasons, we support the establishment of the European Criminal Records Information System insofar as it will guarantee each person's fundamental freedoms. |
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Once inside the entrance gates, the main courtyard reveals the imperious standing of a building that demonstrates the fine lines of the Renaissance period in all its splendour. |
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Three hundred and one members of the House of Commons are in the process of debating and voting on the budget that is being altered by the Prime Minister's whim and off the cuff imperious comments to the media. |
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There is a large consensus within the international community on the recognition of the particular gravity of this problem and the imperious need to adopt appropriate measures to prevent, deter and eliminate it. |
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A major part of the issues raised so far in this context concerns the imperious need to modernise, streamline and simplify activities of national customs administrations. |
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The reported views, like HRH's pose, are imperious. |
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The imperious, brahminic Lowell appeared to be out of key with the times. |
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The imperious tone of that last sentence is the key to the strangely subtle balance of generosity and authority that has enabled Busby to make such a huge contribution to British football. |
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The 21-year-old, who won the Grand Final in London three years ago, was in imperious form as he defeated all comers to set up another attempt at the world crown. |
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Governments can never hope to set the price by means of imperious laws. Nevertheless, legal interest has been adopted for mort gage contracts and for all public acts. |
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Local inhabitants seduced by the choccies include the 70-year-old Armande, with Judi Dench on imperious form as the libertine with a personal secret. |
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Nine of the world's top 25 ranked showjumpers will be in action, while the dressage entries are led by imperious Dutch combination Edward Gal and Moorlands Totilas. |
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This could be down to a lack of passion between the imperious Antony and a stroppy Cleopatra or simply a deliberate decision by director Michael Boyd. |
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She was quick, beautiful, imperious, while he was quiet, slow, and misty. |
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But the Rosina of Helen Sherman is simply tremendous, her coloratura as spectacular as lightning, her command of register imperious, and her sheer stage-presence compelling. |
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