Lord Cyril raised one eyebrow in the same imperious way that Mary had seen Adam do.

How does authority, that basic requisite of narrative voice, attach itself to someone so thoroughly humbled before the inchoate imagination and its imperious ways?

But of course they all loved George and did not mind his imperious ways one little bit.

Ikey's imperious ways and scant regard for the proprieties of a relationship where he was the employee often left Mary furious.

The Major, accustomed to having his own imperious way, suddenly found himself in a confrontation with an antagonist of "powerful temperament," as he later described Teacher.

He just swept them to one side in that imperious way of his and plunged ahead, doing his own thing.

He also had a temper and was nicknamed Tenno-heika, the Emperor, for his imperious ways.

Still, they say, the governor has softened his once imperious way of dealing with the Senate.

Lulu had this imperious way with her instructions.

But then Ethiopians, in their often imperious but beguiling way, do not consider themselves Africans.