imperious
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The Italian said afterwards he had "needed that today" from the crowd to help him over the line - but his serve was almost imperious throughout.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
He explains why Meryl Streep’s imperious magazine editor in “The Devil Wears Prada” is one of the few female characters in Hollywood to wear glasses in a favorable way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Those belts, if you’ll remember, were the trigger for Meryl Streep’s Oscar-nominated speech about how her imperious fashion magazine editor in chief Miranda Priestly creates trends that trickle down to the rest of us rabble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
Bent on surviving the trip, she decides early to bury her feelings in an impenetrable “garb of stone” and to fashion for herself an imperious personality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
There the two of them were, the immigrant from rural Poland, his eyes ringed with fatigue, facing off in his halting English against the imperious Yankee.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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