peremptoriness

What may have seemed at the time like peremptoriness was fatigue.

Granted, psychoanalysts have their blind spots and even a certain peremptoriness.

Therefore you may talk to me, priest," he concluded with haughty peremptoriness.

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

'Come along, Sheridan,' she said, her tone without peremptoriness but also without affection.

The unconscious peremptoriness of my tone jerked him away from his contemplation of the ice ahead.

To take the note of peremptoriness from the invitation, he urged those monarchs unable to attend to send envoys.

He never exceeded in peremptoriness, nor in petting.

For suddenly the drum beat to quarters, which familiar sound happening at least twice every day, had upon the present occasion a signal peremptoriness in it.

Baley said, with the sudden peremptoriness of an Earthman addressing a robot, "I asked you a question, boy."

There was, in this pronouncement - inescapably - a Q.E.D. peremptoriness.

The general, now himself again in the fullest sense, showed the readiness of a resourceful cavalry officer and the peremptoriness of a leader of men.

Mrs. Stannidge thereupon said with a considerate peremptoriness that she and her mother had better take their own suppers if they meant to have any.

The translator tended to blur inflections, but he'd caught a definite peremptoriness in the Tseetsk commander's query.

Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum".

Then her voice sinks, her eyes go cold, and she dismisses Cathleen with the peremptoriness of someone for whom any kind of companionship is a burden.

Yale's Timothy Dwight expressed satisfaction that the world no longer had to deal with a man of "peremptoriness and effrontery, rudeness and ribaldry".

Captain Imrie fixed me with his piercing blue eyes, jerked his head with most uncharacteristic peremptoriness towards the chartroom door and headed for it himself.

In "La Desdichada" a model for Mr. Fuentes's peremptoriness is the poem by Gerard de Nerval to which the title refers.

"Well, lad, well," said Bartle, in a gentle tone, strangely in contrast with his usual peremptoriness and impatience of contradiction, "it's likely enough I talk foolishness.

A common EU action would achieve the greatest result if we voiced our dissatisfaction with the same determination and peremptoriness within our own area in respect of the assertion of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Technically she still has some rough edges - a peremptoriness in her phrasing, an uncertain control over her own force -but the full easy strength of her dancing and the scale of her projection promise important things to come.

"It was the abrupt and rough peremptoriness of the German action that gave me an unpleasant impression"; not, he added, that the German position was at all "unreasonable", rather that the "method... was not that of a friend."

It was this peremptoriness, as well as what Canadian officials say they consider a "breach of faith" after the cooperation with Mr. Seymour last summer, that explained the angry tone of Mr. Clark's public statements on the affair this week, the officials said.

Because Mr. Wallace answered categorically that he would treat the event as a story and not attempt to warn his compatriots, Mr. Fallows condemns him roundly, although he fails to make clear whether he's rebuking Mr. Wallace for his position or for the peremptoriness with which he took it.