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

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

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

Her exhortations at the sick-bed have a somewhat startling peremptoriness about them.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard

"Don't tell him anything," the young man said, with a flash of peremptoriness.

From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.