(1) The awkward driving position feels lofty and imperious .

(2) It's true that she had a pretty imperious manner, but Granny never believed that one human being could be set above another by an accident of birth.

(3) As a result he, too, was back to something like his imperious best.

(4) Both these batsmen look imperious when they are playing the outgoing ball, since they cut and square drive really well.

(5) They exude a true gothic sense of imperious detachment.

(6) A man who controls 100 people with a single imperious gesture is visibly demonstrating what power really means.

(7) Yet this apparent stonewalling has exasperated the Hong Kong press, which portrays her as imperious and arrogant.

(8) His imperious bulk, even his accent, counted against him and when he was found to have fiddled the books he appeared to be beyond redemption.

(9) Their humble attire did little to detract from the air of imperious authority they exuded, however.

(10) Her playing conjured up the tremulous voice and imperious manner without quite replacing it.

(11) With no fear of losing, lawmakers become more arrogant and imperious , less open to compromise.

(12) He was once again imperious in a Scotland pack which dominated the home forwards for lengthy spells of an otherwise one-sided match.

(13) I wasn't a distant or imperious art director - I was right in there with them all the time.

(14) It's notoriously easy to hit the wrong tone and come off sharp, imperious or brusque in e-mail when you don't intend to.

(15) Its ceremonial gateway towers over the city below, grand and imperious .

(16) A highly regarded consultant and teaching doctor, I found her manner imperious and domineering.

(17) Although the news did not force its way on to the Evening Press front page, the imperious prose inside captured the significance of the moment.

(18) It's safe to say her imperious streak has been running on high here lately.

(19) Could it be that she is a tad on the imperious side?

(20) From a trompe l'oeil window on one side of the Palazzotto, a frescoed woman looks down, faintly mocking, faintly imperious .