peremptoriness

Example Sentences

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Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, desire these intrusively pious members of society to mind their own business?

From On Liberty by Mill, John Stuart

He knocked again with peremptoriness, then tried the door.

From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary

Percy is there, and—” but Mr. Huntingdon only motioned him aside with his old peremptoriness, and then closed the door upon them.

From Wee Wifie by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Here in the breezy kitchen he often sat for as long as an hour, talking with the Old Housekeeper, till the Sick-A-Bed Lady's tiny silver bell rang out with absurd peremptoriness.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell