peremptoriness

Last year, on July 9 — my wife’s birthday — The New York Times fired me with Trump-like peremptoriness.

She looked round with a touch of her native peremptoriness.

"Don't tell him anything," the young man said, with a flash of peremptoriness.

With the strain of attention I was already under I could not even make an intelligent guess at his meaning, as O'Farrell, mistaking my hesitation, repeated it with growing peremptoriness.

It seems possible, then, that one of these attacks had taken place at Bath, and that she had broken loose from constraint and come up to London, which would revive the gossip about her condition, and so cause annoyance to her brother, who thought that peremptoriness was the only method of getting her back117 again to Bath.