All 3 Uses
imperious
in
The Fountainhead
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- She let the fingertips of one hand rest on the railing, a narrow hand ending the straight imperious line of her arm.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- These children had filthy clothes and smudged faces, agile little bodies, impertinent grins, and eyes bright with a roaring, imperious, demanding intelligence.†
Chpt 2.15
- It was her mouth that had changed most, he thought; the lips were drawn in, with only a pale edge of flesh left around the imperious line of their opening; a mouth to issue orders, he thought, but not big orders or cruel orders; just mean little ones—about plumbing and disinfectants.†
Chpt 4.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(imperious) expecting obedience; or arrogant; or domineering
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)