He pointed past the imperious figure of 0 to the open portal itself.

Behind it all was a growing suspicion of the very idea of the "master builder" - especially as embodied by Moses, an increasingly remote and imperious figure.

It is tempting to draw parallels between the charismatic director and the imperious figure of Jean-Baptiste, the deceased artist.

She dropped on her face, before the imperious figure in the chair, with an imploring effort to clasp the skirt of her dress.

He's thought of as a somewhat imperious figure given to issuing decrees while not fully acknowledging other people's points of view.

The tall, bald and usually bespectacled character actor often portrayed pompous, dull, or imperious figures.

Mrs Thatcher herself remained an imperious figure, respected, perhaps feared, but rarely viewed with affection.

Judge Johnson is not the imperious figure that story might suggest, his former law clerks and associates say.

Onstage, she cuts a charming but also imperious figure.

All the same, he appeared a pretty imperious figure on casual encounter.