Sentence examples for something peremptory from inspiring English sources

It is hard to say exactly how this was conveyed: something implacable in the set of the lips, something farseeing (seeing what?) in the eyes, some new and crushing determination in the walk, something peremptory in the voice.

After all the boiler-plate points have been made, and the array of policy suggestions has been presented, and the ritual blaming of everyone under the sun has been performed, do something immediate and peremptory.

The over-all picture of Gore as a government executive which emerges from people who have worked with him is that he always knows the material, that he is efficient and hard-driving, to the point sometimes of being peremptory with staff members who are late with something or haven't done it right, that his intentions are nothing but the best, but that he lacks "touch," or "feel".

The peremptory nature of the encyclical also seems to have come as something of a shock to Cardinal John Heenan, of Westminster, a vice-chairman of the papal commission, who had indicated in a speech over a year ago that some change in present teaching was contemplated.

Half welcoming, half peremptory.

Peremptory silence no longer works.

Reactions to that peremptory gesture impressed her.

Why do race-based peremptory challenges persist?

His remarks sometimes had a peremptory tone.

The legal term is "peremptory challenge".

The only safeguard is the peremptory challenge.