Pep Guardiola's side were imperious, their control breathtaking.
Whether he was standing in front of a map on an easel, pointer in hand, briefing important people from Washington, or visiting American troops in the field, or inspecting villages in the Mekong Delta, he proclaimed his authority with his imperious self-control and rigid military bearing.
Then easy and imperious, in full control, he cartwheeled east into the source of night".
Anyone who hears a baby scream at the slightest quiver of need or discomfort knows better than Pixar that primal forces, entirely more hirsute and imperious, are in control from the start, and those forces only slowly and grudgingly make room for the five cutesy minions of emotional negotiation.
Voted Ventriloquist of the Year three times in a row, Evie doesn't quite put the "evil" in vaudeville, but she's still imperious, demanding and entirely controlling of her son Joe.
She seemed imperious and absurd, completely in control.
Like water permeating seemingly imperious rock and freezing, rigid control as a governance model is doomed: isolation barely works in a world that is warm and wet, and fails miserably in the cooler climes of cyber.
Katzenbach, however, could not win a fight within his own department to control the long-serving, imperious FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, who insisted on wiretapping civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
As Lasdun writes: "I imagine (in retrospect) that the silence came across as something more controlled and monumental: the imperious silence of a man who no longer considers a woman worthy of his attention and has, as it were, pulled up the drawbridge".
"As it was Jacques survived, and his innings of 67 laid the foundation for a formidable Nottinghamshire total, with Samit Patel in imperious form the visitors are in complete control.
Douglas Costa's control from a sweeping crossfield ball was imperious; he played in Alaba and Robben arrived to lift his cross into the roof of the net.
