imperiousness


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the trait of being imperious and overbearing

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In time, as the new status quo shorn of classical economics' imperiousness set in, the details of what had happened would be recorded and heroized.
Much of the poem's wit follows from this disconnect between the imperiousness of its tone and the neutrality of its commands.
As a result, the group's tensions and rifts don't register with the intended force, and Mercury's growing imperiousness never truly feels like a threat to the band's cohesion.
Moreover, "Africans need to be kicked", he once remarked, "because that's the only thing they understand." Paul Theroux, the American novelist and travel writer, in his book Sir Vidia's Shadow (1997), a memoir of his encounters with Naipaul in Uganda, while the young American served there as a Peace Corps Volunteer, wrote of the Trinidadian's imperiousness and -- inexplicably, given the fact that Naipaul was himself clearly a man of colour -- the mockery he showed for every African he dealt with, whom he would call "Mr.
Perhaps it is just greed, or a certain thrill to be had from being the purveyor of imperiousness for once.
While Schramm did not meet the measure of imperiousness suggested by Auletta, Babe's dismissal of Schramm suggests that from the Canadian vantage point, the traditional U.S.
Sara, 59, has inspired a multitude of headlines in the past over what family spokesmen call an undeserved reputation for imperiousness.
Our interactions with the Board have convinced us that there can be no meaningful change at Natus without a change in the chairmanship of the Board...Natus' current Board structure, practices and leadership represent a bygone era of imperiousness, entitlement and unaccountability by insiders that offend the contemporary canon of corporate governance.
PESHAWAR -- Elected representatives of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority (KPPSRA) Sunday condemns the imperiousness of some of the authority officials demanding a meeting to address private school owners.
So will the impeachment items against her, for purchase of a luxury SUV, lavish travel accommodations, costly SC computerization, and imperiousness, among others.
Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps are mesmerising, and their on-screen romance is refereed with arch imperiousness by Lesley Manville as Reynolds' spinster sister Cyril.
Sigismund wields power like Ivan, but the typical male imperiousness and aggression in his speech is cloaked in the come-hither coquettish power of his costume and gestures.
Marina allows the Obeahwoman to lead her further into her house "as if she lacked any will of her own or ability to move herself." Her innate imperiousness will not work here, and neither will reason as, once she is inside, she feels as though she were in "the world of the insane" (130).
It never stops and the judiciary is stuck in the middle (although some existential pressure is likely a good check on judicial imperiousness).