Which is more "patriotic" -- to loyally refrain from criticizing your government's foreign policies, no matter how brutal or peremptory they may be (including those that result in quasi-legal, immoral military adventurism that kills thousands of innocent civilians), or to loyally pony up when your government asks you to make a relatively minor economic sacrifice?
That these questions were posed at all demonstrates how degraded the practice of exercising peremptory challenges has become.
He had to learn how to ask for things without being peremptory.
There sits the renowned but hungry author in his Soviet rags and Stalin is summoning underlings, in the peremptory way of the autocrat, "How is it our famous writer is in such a state?
As both books reveal, Howe was, in some respects, a vain and peremptory man, and he was no philosopher.
Thus Morrison's heroine, remembers her childhood as a series of peremptory summonses: "Come here girl, didn't nobody tell you how to sew?
On the global political level, think of the blundering, insular, peremptory and oddly irrelevant posture of the Anglo-American powers, how spooked and baffled and disliked they are over so much of the world.
Pinkish purple Wim Duisenberg, in the rough ReprintsHow, in any event, could Mr Jospin repatriate so many people, given his peremptory ban on charter flights?
Half welcoming, half peremptory.
Peremptory silence no longer works.
