"You need to change for tea, miss," the maid said, with her usual authoritarian manner, quite as if nothing whatsoever had changed.

A week ago, his authoritarian manner would have struck terror into Molly's heart.

Even the doorways have been redesigned in a handsome, if slightly authoritarian, manner.

A distinction is commonly made between suggestions delivered "permissively" or in a more "authoritarian" manner.

"Reform", he wrote, "can be undertaken here only in an authoritarian manner (vlast'iu)".

The party has been criticized for acting in a very authoritarian manner and teaming up with the government to inform on political dissidents.

Rather quickly, Athens began to behave in an authoritarian manner toward its allies, before bringing them under its total domination.

It had something to do with Berman's charming authoritarian manner.

There he is confronted by an Army doctor whose authoritarian manner provokes the resentment that was put in place years ago by his abusive father.

But he does not take any decision in authoritarian manner.