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(adjective) putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay / (adjective) not providing an opportunity to show cause why one should not comply / (adjective) admitting of no contradiction / (adjective) expressive of urgency or command / (adjective) characterized by often imperious or arrogant self-assurance / (adjective) indicative of a peremptory attitude or nature; haughty / (noun) a challenge (as of a juror) made as of right without assigning any cause

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The image is peremptory,

—p.132 by Roland Barthes
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8 months, 1 week ago


His best novel, Histoire de l’œil (Story of the Eye), today a classic of obscure symbolism and underage sex, was published in 1928 and peremptorily banned

—p.299 Hung Like an Obelisk, Hard as an Olympian: An Abecedarium of English-Language Publishing in Paris (298) by Joshua Cohen
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1 year, 2 months ago


because the arrow's peremptory inexorability, without modulations, excludes all the intentions, implications, hesitations possible in the voice of someone I do not see

—p.132 In a network of lines that enlace (132) by Italo Calvino
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1 year, 8 months ago


participating in conversations with GOLEM requires people to have patience and above all self-control, for from our point of view it can be arrogant and peremptory.

—p.113 Golem XIV: Foreword (99) by Stanisław Lem
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11 months, 1 week ago


But if she had, was this the way to give him the news? With a cold and peremptory phone call?

i keep thinking this means like preemptive but it's more like, matter-of-fact, not expecting any debate, etc

—p.184 by Suat Derviş
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1 year, 10 months ago


To insituate into Order the accommodating spectable of its servitudes has of late become a paradoxical but peremptory means of its inflation.

boy, what a sentence

—p.41 Operation Astra (41) by Roland Barthes
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7 years, 3 months ago


The most excruciating thing was probably their stern, dogmatic, peremptory tone, quivering with repressed indignation

—p.36 by Michel Houellebecq
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1 year, 3 months ago


I was being savagely pressed against his chest and peremptorily ordered to get into bed.

—p.54 Part One (5) by Elaine Dundy
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6 months, 1 week ago


The reader should not be misled by the somewhat peremptory air which the effort at axiomization may give to my argument.

—p.3 by Pierre Bourdieu
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6 years, 11 months ago


He had already filled his lungs to let out the peremptory yell they both expected

—p.15 FREE WOMEN: 1 (1) by Doris Lessing
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10 months ago

She thrust the glass at Anna, and said peremptorily: 'Fill it.'

—p.268 FREE WOMEN: 2 (243) by Doris Lessing
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10 months ago


She spoke decisively, sometimes even in a peremptory tone

—p.276 by Elena Ferrante
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2 months, 3 weeks ago


“Excuse me,” Alton said in a peremptory tone.

—p.55 by Jeffrey Eugenides
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8 months, 2 weeks ago


With one peremptory hand he seats her at a conference table made of outlawed mahogany

—p.366 CROWN (353) by Richard Powers
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4 years, 7 months ago


They were silent and attentive while he put the glasses back on, and said, peremptorily, —Come with me, I’ve got something to show you

—p.664 PART II (279) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 10 months ago

it relapsed into the expression of intent vacancy which it had not lost, even in the interruption of surprise, a peremptory confusion which had seemed, for that instant, to empty it even further

—p.134 PART I (1) by William Gaddis
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1 year, 10 months ago


I hissed and in such a peremptory tone, so clearly close to shouting, so determined to attack and to fight with all my energy, that he got up, slowly, and said with disgust

—p.82 by Elena Ferrante
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1 year, 2 months ago


Individual influence was, of course, discernible, but not peremptory; artists came and went, Byzantine iconography stayed.

—p.98 Bresson (57) by Paul Schrader
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3 years, 1 month ago


"Elbows off the table!” A cheerful and peremptory call to manners that has vast stretches of childhood in it.

damn great word

—p.382 Families and Prisons (363) by Robert Hass
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4 years, 10 months ago