'peremptory' in Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

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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

triumphantly dispatches it into the past more adequately than the doomed, gallant, vain, peremptory Faulknerian evocation of what has long since vanished

—p.145 SENTENCES: Reading and the Division of Labor (131) by Fredric Jameson

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peremptory (en)

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

peremptory (en)

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson

Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
by Fredric Jameson