Sentence examples for imperious attitudes from inspiring English sources

KATHA, Myanmar — George Orwell created his first novel, "Burmese Days," a scathing portrait of the imperious attitudes of the British, from this former colonial outpost on the banks of the mighty Irrawaddy River.

He rightly derides FIFA, football's international governing body, for its imperious attitude.

What the files also reveal is an imperious attitude of brutality.

It listed, as one of the requirements, "an imperious attitude toward patients".

Most worrisome, half a dozen victims or their relatives said, is the imperious attitude of the ministry officials.

He was an outsider on the upside of the scene, who took an imperious attitude toward successful fellow-artists.

Meet the new, user-friendly J. Lo, who is back to doing it all, only without the imperious attitude that helped propel her to fame.

When George P. Shultz replaced Mr. Haig as secretary of state the next month, he found the president "fed up with her imperious attitude".

But as Ms. Hagen illustrates, it isn't too much of a stretch to push the vocal power and imperious attitude of an opera diva from the elevated into the monstrous.

Yet we can see how some of her beauty and imperious attitude has been bequeathed to Nathalie, who is also to inherit her mother's cat Pandora, which threatens merely to play havoc with her allergies.

The compensation offered by the China National Petroleum Corporation reflects a bitter lesson China learned about doing business in the new, more democratic Myanmar when construction on a major Chinese hydroelectric dam there was suspended last year after a groundswell of outrage erupted over what was seen as China's imperious attitude toward Myanmar's people and its environment.