Sentence examples for peremptory and from inspiring English sources

I open the Washington Post to find a leader criticising the new Hungarian government in the most peremptory and sweeping terms.

The story demonstrated "a style very personal, sometimes petty, peremptory, and a style that demands a high degree of loyalty," he said.

The advice, offered by a well-dressed thug to his drunken employer, is brisk, peremptory and unlikely to be heeded: "Don't look back".

Any effort by Ms. Harris now to stop the hand counting before it is completed would be peremptory and purely partisan.

Caesar's message was peremptory, and the Senate resolved that Caesar should be treated as a public enemy if he did not lay down his command "by a date to be fixed".

McKellen is peremptory and sleek, whereas Morahan (whose Nora, in "A Doll's House," made such an impression at bam last year) is clothed in dove gray and emotionally aflame.

As both books reveal, Howe was, in some respects, a vain and peremptory man, and he was no philosopher.

The threat is so pervasive in the cultural environment that, according to Brison, girls "enter womanhood freighted with postmemories of sexual violence" (2002, 87)[1], and years of peremptory warnings and cautionary tales lead many victims to experience rape as "a threat fulfilled" (Cahill 2001, 164).

This is why it produces written opinions rather than peremptory orders (and why its members wear robes and read their decisions from a pedestal): it has to persuade elected officials, through a combination of reason and mystique, to back its rules by force.

As TVNewser noted, there may be some payback going on here: Couric and the article's writer, Alessandra Stanley, have a long history ever since Stanley penned a harsh piece on Couric when she was still at the "Today" show in 2005, noting: "At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights".

Recer's peremptory manner and abundant self-confidence are familiar traits among entrepreneurs, and they are generally more often forgiven in men than in women.