peremptoriness

Example Sentences

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Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Now off with you, child,' with laughing peremptoriness; and Mollie only paused to kiss her friend and whisper that she was quite happy now, as she would have her all to herself the next day.

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

She had forbidden Hubert to return to her that night—she had said that she wanted to be alone; and now she was half inclined to repent her own peremptoriness.

From A Life Sentence A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline

And again the new note of peremptoriness rang in her voice, and her mother stopped suddenly short like a scolded child.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

John Dene rapped out the words with a peremptoriness that startled Marjorie.

From John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall by Jenkins, Herbert George