- Look up
imperious or
imperiousness in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Imperious may
refer to:
Arrogant or
haughty superiority to or
disdain of
those one...
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Imperious Delirium is the
thirteenth studio album released by
Australian rock
music group The Saints. With
Marty Willson-Piper out of the band, The Saints...
- supercilious, haughty, and
disdainful toward others. They may
treat others in an
imperious, overbearing, and even
aggressive manner. In
everyday usage, the term...
-
enticing Dance of the
Seven Veils (Wilde's invention) to
agree to her
imperious demand: "bring me the head of John the Baptist". Later,
Salome was the...
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ultimately "overcome by
their own technology" (particularly
after the
Imperious Leader was created,
despite having had a "slight error" in its programming)...
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Marlene Dietrich as Lola: "She
straddles a chair...
imperiously, magisterially,
fully the
measurer of men in the audience..."...
- of
Dorian Gray is Basil's masterpiece. Lord
Henry "Harry"
Wotton – an
imperious aristocrat and a
decadent dandy who
espouses a
philosophy of self-indulgent...
- of his lower-class
status compared to her
other wealthy suitors. Her
imperious father Charles Garfield King
purportedly told a
young Fitzgerald that...
- from the
autocrat Ian Smith, who had
learnt his
formative lessons from
imperious British colonisers. —
Heidi Holland By the twenty-first century, Mugabe...
- new
spheres of
discovery from the
knowledge of the old; and her
strong imperious will
would never have been
daunted by
opposition or difficulty, never...
