Imperious in a sentence as an adjective

In Obie's defense, he is one of Rails's original "imperious douchebags.

This is just what the Rails community needs - another imperious douchebag.

I notice you edited your initial response to remove that rather imperious "hm?

'Better to die than to go living here' - thus responds the imperious voices and temptation; and this 'here', this 'at home' is everything it had hitherto loved!

We're all ambassadors, and in this case, we're ambassadors for an industry that is easy to characterize as heartless and imperious.

They were pretty damning of her imperious style and sytematic undermining of colleagues in her later years as PM, and her handling of the poll tax debacle.

Obviously major websites serve Google ads, and couldn't risk this kind of impersonal, imperious ability to just cut you off and steal your money.

You are describing imperious, self-defeating, and short-sighted behaviors respectively, none of which are really the same.

It's imperious that patients be accompanied by a loved one or someone they can trust to look out for their interests and provide an adversarial viewpoint to the medical staff.

" The court continued, "private rights, under such extreme and imperious circumstances, must give way for the time to the public good, but the government must make full restitution for the sacrifice.

These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. "The Confederate flag represents the desire to maintain slavery and oppression.

But nobody has established that Firefox's behavior is less reasonable than the alternative — for example, the comment you were replying to noted that both approaches have their fans — so your out-of-hand rejection on behalf of "users-on-street" sounded imperious.

Yes, I know they have to deal with a stupendous number of applications, and much of their process is a direct result of that sheer volume, but so long as people walk around with that kind of attitude towards them, they're given all the excuse they need to be imperious about it, to boot.

The completely random "oh hey this one guy just updated his status" push notifications are at least a step above the arrogantly imperious ones they had going for a few weeks prior to that: I very nearly uninstalled the app after getting a push message reading simply "Update your status.

These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization.

These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. "It astounds me that there are large numbers of whites in this country who think the Civil War was about anything other than slavery.

You could also use Tolkienian races -- "Joe is a imperious, perfectionist Elf when it comes to writing code" or etc. Regardless of what group of names you pick, usually the people who are very successful do very well in one area, say introversion / introspection or something, and can force themselves to do decently in the "opposite" area.

So you'll throw it out and run into all the same issues on your rewrite and your code will end up just as opaque, but you'll understand it now so you'll think it's brilliant, and then you'll write self-congratulatory blog posts about how great you are and how terrible everyone else is, blissfully oblivious that in 3 months, a new developer will take on the project and rewrite it and write the same exact blog post out of imperious disgust for your work.

Imperious definitions

adjective

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

See also: disdainful haughty lordly overbearing prideful sniffy supercilious swaggering