There was, Simeone insisted, an "imperious need to win" but he watched through the window, a suspended man stuck in a glass cage, as they were defeated.
In 1901, he wrote, "The legend of the Wandering Jew has become a reality, proved by numerous observations of patients or unbalanced persons who suffer from an imperious need to walk, on and on".
Cardiac arrest is the archetypal situation given the imperious need of rapid oxygen delivery in organs.
Like it or not, they all share in the aura and onus of the real estate that surrounds them in a neighborhood where, Lanchester writes, "the houses were now like people, and rich people at that, imperious, with needs of their own that they were not shy about having serviced".
And then, after listing the seemingly endless string of deliveries that come to the houses throughout the day — laundry, packages, milk — he writes, "The houses were now like people, and rich people at that, imperious, with needs of their own that they were not shy about having serviced".
Her Jessie is imperious when she needs to be sly, simpering and coquettish when she needs to be fierce and calculating.
The eponymous Laura Henderson (Judi Dench) is an imperious, imperial, upper-class widow in her late sixties who has spent much of her married life in India and on her husband's death in 1937 feels she needs a hobby.
If opening day is about pomp, circumstance and symbolism, then Gardner was the ideal table-setter and inspiration for a long-imperious team suddenly in need of a chip on the shoulder of its pinstripes.
If he is seriously to challenge Djokovic, who is in imperious form, Berdych will certainly need to up his game.
Depicting himself as a dwarfish voyeur unmanned by the proximity of imperious nudes, Picasso had even greater need of his fantasy Rembrandt, the artist enacting his virility with his brush.
The plane was designed by Boeing in a fitful weekend in 1948 after Curtis LeMay, the imperious Air Force general, insisted that he needed a new heavy bomber that could drop several nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union in one pass.
