peremptoriness

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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 looked round with a touch of her native peremptoriness.

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

Oddly enough the coke had been sent three days before, and there was no need for peremptoriness.

From Miss Mapp by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

Timid Peers were alarmed at the King’s peremptoriness, and said that it might cost him his throne.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by Froude, J.A.

In former days, Archie would have sent her away with blunt peremptoriness; but now he seemed well content to have her there.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette