| Captain Ahab, with his leg miraculously intact for this voyage, was standing imperiously by the sternsheets barking out orders to his crew. |
| Our little lord, perched imperiously in his howdah, was gradually succumbing to the chill wind out of the south. |
| At 190 mph the car feels imperiously stable, like the USS Enterprise at warp speed. |
| Humiliated, Pantani comes unglued and withdraws a few days later, and Armstrong pedals imperiously to his second Tour win. |
| Startled, I removed my Velveeta, two avocados, four bananas, and a roast to make room for the can of peaches she imperiously plopped down. |
| The students enter a dean's office far too casually, and throw themselves and their belongings about rather too imperiously. |
