Sentences with word «imperious»

The Chilean has been a menace to Premier League sides up and down the country ever since completing a # 30million move from Barcelona to North London in July 2014 and has again been in imperious form in 2016/17.

Vondie Curtis - Hall is full of imperious fire as dismayed bystander and law enforcer, Captain Prince.

His physicality and aerial strength will come into play as the Stoke side attempt to cause one of the Premier League upsets this weekend as Arsenal are in imperious form at the moment.

The group displayed their togetherness at last on Thursday, and let's hope they are just as imperious tomorrow afternoon, and prove Deeney completely wrong.....

City look imperious at present and if Chelsea slip up at Newcastle earlier in the day then they will have a chance to further close the gap.

Meade was given the runaround by Paulo Machado while the triple attacking threat of Djamel Abdoun, Leandro Greco and Rafik Djebbour lurked around the box as cross after cross was dealt with by imperious captain Thomas Vermaelen and central defensive partner Sebastien Squillaci.

With imperious aplomb, our US correspondent wrote, «I trust it is not too much to expect the British people to act, as they have in other instances in the past, as a brake on an over-impetuous Moon race that could easily become a losing bet for free men everywhere.»

Barcelona have a pretty imperious record against Malaga holding a 24 - 4 head to head lead over them with seven draws.

But it's difficult to trust him, because he can look imperious for 89 minutes of a match and then look like a man who doesn't know how to tie his own shoes in the other.

Theresa May has demonstrated many qualities to become prime minister designate, but her position is far from imperious.

He still needs to become more imperious in European competition (only one goal and two assists in this season's Champions League), but this will come with time.

And without solidarity, we face the danger of a distant, haughty, and imperious ruling class, and a demoralized, disengaged, and alienated common man.

It's an ironic statement coming from Cancienne, whose imperious attitude and penchant for dirty tricks has landed him in hot water on several occasions.

That could have been a Barcelona - style massacre if Cavani hadn't been so wasteful and Ospina hadn't been so imperious in goal.

He's the most imperious smug face manager alive.

Having won the title in imperious fashion last season, Jose Mourinho's side have been brought crashing down to earth already this term.

Jenkinson vs Bale: the young Arsenal fullback will have his work cut out if he is to stop the Welshman whose imperious form has propelled Spurs on this season.

C.A.R.E.'s first Precious Project beneficiary is a tabby cat nicknamed Queen Agatha for her sometimes imperious ways.

Whenever a fresh or familiar face pops into view — like Christian's sweet, vivacious sister, Mia (pop singer Rita Ora), or their wise, imperious mother (Marcia Gay Harden)-- you long for the movie to follow that person somewhere, to grant us a change of scenery that doesn't involve Christian and Anastasia's stunning new dream house, or a conversation that doesn't devolve into deathly dull innuendo.

Much depends on how complaisant students are, and how imperious professors are.

Swinton is on imperious form here, her natural hauteur only amplified by the alpha - female status of her character.

Zenit were pretty imperious in their Europa League Group stage, picking up sixteen points and netting seventeen goals along the way, which was better than anyone else managed in the stage.

Even Tanya's imperious old auntie does an about turn after Tanya chose her own husband and asked for help taking charge of her life.

Winterkorn might have been a notch less imperious than the chairman, but he still displayed an almost theatrical officiousness: He publicly dressed down his juniors at an auto salon for failing to build a steering column that could be adjusted as smoothly as a Hyundai's.

Again, we may notice that the model used to picture God in much popular religious talk, and in some theological talk too, was borrowed, as Whitehead noted in his Modes of Thought (Free Press, 1968, p. 49), from «the characteristics of the touchy, vain, imperious tyrants who ruled the empires of the world.»

Mamadou Sakho — 7 Imperious first start in the league, as the centre - back won almost everything there was to win, including a game of «statue».

The pair raided famed Mardi Gras floatmaker Blaine Kern's studio for unused floats and carnival props, transported them to the museum, and filled the stately Great Hall with the enormous figures, making a bathetic bacchanal of the otherwise imperious setting.

Isabelle Huppert might well pinch it for her entirely outrageous and imperious performance — does she give any other sort?

What began as a masquerade has evolved into a form of imperious self - expression as activism.

This amounted to effectively obeying Cameron's imperious command.

Olivier Assayas» Clouds of Sils Maria pairs Juliette Binoche, one of the greatest actresses of her time, with Kristen Stewart, one of the most ridiculed actresses of her time; to the shock of all, Stewart, playing the long - suffering twentysomething assistant to Binoche's celebrated but imperious screen acting legend, turns out to be the film's greatest treasure, even next to Binoche's superb work and Assayas» thoughtful, contemplative filmmaking.

While Arne Duncan continues to champion ideas that enjoy bipartisan support, his methods have become increasingly imperious.

She needs to be; the sometimes imperious Wharton switches between treating her like a beloved family member and a house elf.

Dewy fields, imperious mountains, and scenic beauty are to be found in autumn in Scotland.

«Grace Hartigan was adamant, even imperious about the arrangements for how she would be memorialized.

That Facebook pursued such a strategy is even less of a surprise than Google's imperious adoption of Wikipedia as conspiracy theory debunker: Facebook's motto was «Making the world more open and connected», and the company has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to do just that, whether users like it or not.

Two thousand years later, the Church often takes the same imperious position that the Pharisees and Sadducees shared.

Successive 4 - 0 victories away to Plymouth (League Two) and at home to Huddersfield (chasing promotion in League One) set up a third round clash with Premier League Wigan, who were also no match for Di Canio's imperious charges as The Robins overcame a 1 - 0 deficit to win 2 - 1 at The Country Ground.

As Catherine and Sitting Bull grow closer, and as their friendship — and his life — are threatened by imperious government forces, Catherine must contend with the violence that underlies her position.

David Scarpa's nail - biter of a screenplay — based on John Pearson's 1995 account Painfully Rich, adapted with a free dramatic license — amps up the tension with phoned - in demands and impulsive raids by knuckleheaded local police, yet it never loses the bitter, fascinating taste of imperious wealth.

Blanchett, who also starred in «Elizabeth» (1998), is rather imperious and pale, so even Elizabeth's lust for Raleigh doesn't quite ignite on the screen.

In this telling, the Land of the Dead is not a fearsome place, but rather a never - ending skeleton party conducted in a glorious multi-tiered city that rises from sea - level houseboats to vast, imperious towers inhabited by celebrities such as de la Cruz — all of them connected by arched bridges and aerial trams.

He's played by Kevin Bacon using one of Ernst Stavro Blofeld's old World Domination kits of menacing sneers, imperious stares and counter-intuitive tailoring, but even though he travels round the globe in his own sinister nuclear submarine, he's never quite spine - chilling enough (Kevin Bacon and January Jones, pictured below).

Reminiscent of Jacki Weaver's imperious turn in «Animal Kingdom,» Adjani is the best thing about the movie, bossing her son around one moment and gambling away his savings the next.

The match I remember him being most imperious was against Everton.

But toward the end of the company's British ownership, Rolls - Royce and sisters - under - the - skin Bentley models were rather like Gloria Swanson's aged character in «Sunset Boulevard» — still imperious but well past it, faded at the edges and threadbare.

The raised seating position enhances the driver's view out over the road and, together with the ergonomically optimal arrangement of the controls, sends out a statement of imperious driving experience.