" For Gabriel, this incident shows "Grace at her most imperious.
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But inside her frame you are beautiful, imperious, unbroken, unfallen.
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In the beginning, he came in -- he was very imperious.
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He blamed Mr. Morsi's own "imperious leadership" for his downfall.
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The mayor, who does imperious well, tossed a brushback pitch.
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He was demanding and imperious with colleagues and collaborators alike.
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Company insiders have described him as increasingly haughty and imperious.
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This appeals to the many who disliked Ms Park's imperious ways.
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Both men are prickly, imperious and prone to spreading conspiracy theories.
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By 210's St. Vincent, Clark's public persona would be imperious.
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U.S. Ambassador in London, sought to appease Adolph Hitler, the imperious
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But in any language, her tone is imperious, her timbre metallic.
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He also shares an imperious style and penchant for outsized pay.
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Unlike most Lears, Ms. Jackson doesn't begin in full, imperious spleen.
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And his sometimes imperious personal style continues to grate on many.
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Some see a high-handed, imperious style emerging in Macron's manner.
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Nixon looked like a pope on a balcony — elevated, isolated, imperious.
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It wasn't the first time Macron had been accused of imperious behavior.
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Imperious on the outside, inside they may worry about obsolescence and regulation.
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Now her nemesis, Mr Moon, has promised a less imperious governing style.
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The message from both titans—you ain't seen nothing yet—was imperious.
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One is imperious in posture, the other turns away in stubborn resistance.
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The next moment she was up and back in charge, fabulously imperious.
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You will roll your eyes at the imperious certainty of new parents.
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Beyond Manila, the imperious capital, Mr Duterte was able to harness provincial resentment.
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Deep, imperious and thundering with an angry irony, the voice precedes the man.
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Like Lena Horne at her most imperious, she can be a little scary.
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Mr. Mattis no longer contends that "imperious leadership" is a problem in Egypt.
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He could be brusque and imperious one moment, charming and conspiratorial the next.
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Even the imperious Vogue has seen its budgets cut and its fortunes shift.
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In those roles, she has become known for stubbornness and an imperious style.
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Miss Jane (Angourie Rice), the princess of the group, is imperious and judgmental.
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And it must firmly resolve never to engage in such imperious activities again.
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There was also the small matter of their team talisman, the imperious Zinedine Zidane.
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"I don't even know them," protested the professor, his manner imperious despite the shackles.
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Both episodes stirred latent frustrations with Kelly's imperious style, which had grated on Trump.
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Nina Stemme's Brünnhilde was less imperious than usual, and her Kundry was hardly seductive.
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Mr. Shannon's imperious enforcer lacks the eccentric spark he brings to his best roles.
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In office, Trump's imperious instincts often translate into a zeal for maximizing presidential power.
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Rickman has found in the Sun King a character worthy of his imperious, reptilian charisma.
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Emilia Clarke has never been better, unleashing an imperious sneer at all who doubted her.
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She leaves ANTI's impressive vocal work in the dust, opting instead for sneering, imperious flow.
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Tall windows in the living room looked out over the imperious spires of the Kremlin.
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Some people who knew Mr. Paddock said he could take on an imperious, exacting demeanor.
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Nadal, however, has been in imperious form this season, losing only one match on clay.
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He was tall, erect and had a high, domed forehead that made him look naturally imperious.
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She liked to affect a steely, imperious persona, but she was deeply insecure and easily wounded.
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Petit's conspiratorial and imperious voice calls on readers to vanquish the blank slate and celebrate chaos.
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Moreover, they say, her imperious approach alienates potential allies and contributes to the country's growing crises.
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At the performance attended, the grievances laid at the imperious feet of King George and co.
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But, that's not to say it won't happen one day, no matter how imperious Johnson's present form.
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Or so they are instructed by an imperious colonel (Liev Schreiber) and sergeant (an uglified Maria Bello).
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But Rotich, who has beaten Rudisha twice this year, in Shanghai and Stockholm, looked in imperious form.
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Mr Woodford had confronted Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, the company's imperious chairman, over a $1.7bn hole in its finances.
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Cyborg is zen, Flash a bit imperious, Wonder Woman with a Mona Lisa gaze into the cosmos.
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The imperious smiles-flashing Kim Yo Jung is an unprecedented, bias-busting weapon for the Kim regime.
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France's imperious young leader has heard the anger of his marginalized citizens and has begun to respond.
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Impish and imperious, she later starred in "Chicago," playing the infamous Velma Kelly alongside Verdon's Roxie Hart.
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The supposedly civilised garden becomes brutal; the lawn is imperious in its consumption of space and resources.
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This lie will, of course, sow much confusion when it reaches Michael's imperious mother, Dr. Lee (Jade Wu).
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Meanwhile, Barboza's imperious skills are finally piecing together and will want to maintain his positive upswing in momentum.
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Broadcasters are not football authorities, of course, but their influence on the sport, directly or otherwise, is imperious.
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But he has helped to accelerate this decline with an imperious style and unfortunate ability to cause offence.
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This is how the telecoms-equipment industry works, with Huawei imperious around the world but stymied in America.
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Captain Disillusion even recreates the trick to prove his theory (or to be an imperious jerk, you decide).
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" Laurie Metcalf won her second Tony, playing a younger version of Jackson's imperious character in "Three Tall Women.
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The movie opens on her pleading with an imperious male official to allow her to resume her studies.
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Yet the fervor of her pessimism, like the extremity of her moderation, made her a forceful, imperious presence.
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"You hate to see it" is a barb, a hex protection and an imperious shake of the head.
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Irina is charming and silly, imperious and intelligent, tough to the point of cruelty and also exquisitely sensitive.
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They can also claim, quite plausibly, that his imperious style was on full display throughout the 2016 campaign.
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" Laurie Metcalf won her second Tony, playing a younger version of Jackson's imperious character in "Three Tall Women.
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Liverpool, imperious in domestic games, had lost to Atlético Madrid, failing to muster a single shot on target.
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"He's arrogant, he's been imperious and he's politically out of his depth," Mr. Whipple said of Mr. Kelly.
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"I did not kill Armstrong," the imperious Sarnoff supposedly stated upon hearing the news of his old friend's death.
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To drum up publicity, she investigates an eerie mansion owned by an imperious blue-blood despised by practically everyone.
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But beating an imperious Nadal at his favorite slam was too big an ask for the 24-year-old.
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Porto were drawn in a tough group that included Marseille, Partizan Belgrade and the imperious might of Real Madrid.
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Amy Schumer's imperious delivery of Gable's line will get laughs, but so too will Cate Blanchett's wry self-deprecation.
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It was an imperious goal, a volley struck at hip height with the flawless technique of a great player.
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That might seem like a satisfying comeuppance for the imperious Valley, but it's not something to be smug about.
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Britain has surrendered a non-trivial measure of its sovereignty to the increasingly imperious and overreaching bureaucracy in Brussels.
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He attacked the remote and imperious style his former economy minister has adopted since he became president last May.
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Alfred Walker brought a rugged Wagnerian sound to the Ruler, suggesting that agony lay behind the character's imperious poses.
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Bishop's imperious letters are an exercise in raw political power highlighting the urgent need to address the status issue.
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) appears imperious and unassailable as he passes the 28500-day mark of his presidency.
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Meanwhile, the immense assembled sculptures of Louise Nevelson, in wood painted black, projected an imperious spirit that defied condescension.
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He certainly did not present as an old-fashioned Hollywood mogul, in terms of flashy style or imperious behavior.
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Or he may double down on the imperious ways that have made him China's most powerful leader in generations.
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His characters included self-satisfied corporate executives, crusty academics, imperious dowagers and bewildered teenagers on the cusp of adulthood.
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Glowing in church candlelight, she must have been an imperious sight, though not all her images are so regal.
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" Here she is on a young white woman in Zambia: "She seemed both weak and imperious, helpless yet haughty.
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Guardian writer Russell Jackson's match re-cap of perfectly composed British snark is a brilliant imperial pint of imperious prose.
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It could also prompt questioning from within Mr Modi's party of his imperious—but hitherto effective and apparently unstoppable—leadership.
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It's Hood at his imperious absolute best, a disorientatingly intense experience that you sort of never want to escape from.
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Regan's imperious style and failure to grasp that the President was the only star in the show was a disaster.
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Danae is pursued by both Midas and the imperious Jupiter, who at first takes Midas' mortal form to hoodwink Danae.
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There's just one problem: Thanks to Amazon, the age of the imperious corporate publishing house is coming to an end.
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I look back on that as a halcyon time, even though I wasn't happy and had a very imperious husband.
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Of course, this imperious ruler cites a particular rune when it serves him and simply ignores those that prove inconvenient.
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In both, the center of attention is Petra von Kant, an imperious diva who bosses around her mute assistant, Marlene.
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For the first half-hour, Liverpool had belied its status as underdog and swarmed over the illustrious, imperious Real Madrid.
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The heart of the second cadenza is an imperious elaboration of the suave, sauntering theme with which the concerto begins.
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Mr. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren have in recent days cast Mr. Bloomberg as the imperious emblem of runaway plutocracy.
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She took photographs at Elaine's, the celebrity hangout on the Upper East Side with an imperious proprietor, starting in 1992.
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The echoes of de Gaulle in all this are startling, and not only in terms of grandiose language and imperious style.
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Often he spoke in the imperious tones of a British foreign-intelligence officer, which he was during the second world war.
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But after the imperious Szell died in 1970, the orchestra, now in its centennial season, came to lack a distinct identity.
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Behind his icy, imperious gaze, you can discern the pain of the past, along with a certain inviolable nobility of spirit.
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Over his career, he has made a generation's worth of memories for Red Sox fans by bullying their once-imperious rival.
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Endor is an appealingly weird mix of medievalism and science fiction, presided over by an imperious headmistress voiced by Kate Winslet.
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Ms. Rubaeva has a jolly "Uncle Joe" Stalin figurine on her desk and a more imperious Stalin bust against the wall.
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Mr. Bo, an imperious politician, was dismissed and arrested after investigators found his wife, Gu Kailai, had murdered a British businessman.
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Beijing's halting response to the protests in Hong Kong has raised questions about President Xi Jinping's imperious style and authoritarian policies.
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The organization sought to influence officials in California last year, but elected officials there criticized the strategy as imperious and ineffective.
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They are renting their house from a famous Haitian politician named Maxim Bayard, a "legendary Sénateur"—cultured, imperious, merciless, and corrupt.
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She's a complete narcissist, very judgmental, very imperious, and just very involved with herself and the way things ought to be.
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Most interpretations of Strindberg's original text are centered on the psychosexual unraveling of its title character, an imperious, death-courting figure.
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Those are toplined by Mirren at her imperious best, but also Clarke, Richard Roxburgh and Rory Kinnear as a particularly officious advisor.
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Giving money away would appear more straightforward than governing, a role in which Mr. Bloomberg's style was criticized by some as imperious.
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But while she stands atop a grand staircase, looking imperious and sporting a towering bit of headgear, she's really a bit player.
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The cackling witches, sneering dwarves, imperious queens and booming giants of folklore are already caricatured enough; vocal embellishments only flatten them further.
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The film opens with the death of the FBI's imperious leader, J. Edgar Hoover, and Felt being passed over for the promotion.
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But their imperious chairmen have in several instances been convicted of tax evasion and other crimes, though seldom kicked out of management.
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And yet, even then, this was not the imperious City that has won 22 of its last 23 games, including 14 straight.
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He was a rock star playing a rock star, leather-lunged and imperious but also grinning to let everyone share the joke.
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But despite her exemplary range, many American viewers maintain an image of her as an aloof, exquisite, possibly imperious, possibly enigmatic beauty.
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Little wonder, then, that Yeoh's portrayal of the imperious mother, Eleanor Young, in the summer smash "Crazy Rich Asians" was so ferocious.
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Mr. Dawes scarcely resembles Mr. Nureyev, but he embodies the dancer's imperious presence and gestures, and he speaks in a persuasive Russian accent.
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A few skeletons -- er, characters, from past seasons also reappear, although it's unclear whether they pose any real threat to the imperious Underwoods.
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The vocals—which come courtesy of one Alasdair Dunn—are delivered with righteous outrage in a sort of imperious singsong, clean and commanding.
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While Meek impressed in an abrupt fashion, his compatriot and good friend Jack "The Joker" Hermansson was equally imposing and in imperious form.
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Holbein's famous portrait of Henry VIII gives us the public face of the king: imperious, bejeweled, aggressively masculine, red beard bristling, codpiece prominent.
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Mr. Coppola had a reputation as an autocrat, more typical of the imperious maestros of his time than today's comparatively democratic podium-ites.
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The headdress he designed for the imperious princess in Puccini's "Turandot" appeared to be on the verge of collapsing under its own weight.
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And the myth-steeped, earthy bird conjured by Hughes becomes, in Mr. Porter's book, a father's imperious escort through the valley of mourning.
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Can you blame Ms. Rebeck for wanting to spend a bit of time in the imperious, world-beating presence of the Divine Sarah?
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Details: In the book, Haley "describes Tillerson as 'exhausting' and imperious and Kelly as suspicious of her access to Trump," per the Post.
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Fortunate in her teachers, among them Beverley Johnson and the imperious Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, she acquired a formidable mastery of the mechanics of singing.
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And at a key moment in the country's history, she delivered a hard truth to an imperious leader who rarely heard it. Mrs.
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The protests are partly a response to President Emmanuel Macron, a former investment banker whose sometimes imperious style has made him broadly unpopular.
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Some Shanghainese regard the arrival of the Museum as the return of an imperious influence, out of touch with local interests and values.
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Such pickpocketing may range from imperious acquisition sprees to managerial enrichment through interested transactions or even myopia amid internal scandal and related crises.
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King Henry was a Trumpian figure — imperious, vainglorious, explosive, a handsome charmer in his youth who became an embittered and slothful 400-pounder.
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At prep school, where he was known for his wild mood swings, he was nicknamed "Cal" — short for the imperious Roman emperor Caligula.
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And if you, like I, thought Comey came off as imperious in television interviews for that stupid book of his, check out this tweet.
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Thanks to Selden's golden pipes, she winds up as the stand-in for the imperious (but squeaky-voiced) Lina Lamont, played by Jean Hagen.
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Against the glare of opprobrium, the Big Tech companies, quite different from the imperious Gilded Age trusts, are attempting to at least appear responsive.
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"I really think this just reinforces the observation that the growth of EpiPens [prescriptions] has been seemingly imperious to their price increases," Gray said.
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The Gucci Mane-featuring track showcased everything that makes her a force: effortless flow, dismissively imperious lyrics, and, this time via Southside, massive production.
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When she went off to college, at the University of Nebraska, she was already an imperious cosmopolitan, entirely unafraid to make her views known.
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By now, not only her foes in the Labour Party and the liberal media but others had begun to tire of her imperious manner.
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Zidane, an imperious player in his era and the winner of every trophy in the sport, started managerial life at the top with Real.
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But trustees generally say that Ms. Blanco's description of an imperious director making unilateral decisions does not describe Ms. Block's approach to her job.
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Hearing these exchanges between an imperious, autocratic ruler and a righteous, slightly pompous adviser delivered in blunt English made Monteverdi's characters seem eerily contemporary.
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In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through "Downsizing," already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles.
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But there's dramatic and musical texture to this character, who rejects the advances of an imperious sheriff only to fall for a disguised bandit.
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When Gloucester's fortunes fall, sunk in part by his own imperious wife (the excellent Sophia Skiles), Ms. Katigbak imbues him with a desolate poignancy.
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Even before Trump's election, there was welling discussion about the ideological uniformity of many colleges, where the left holds bold and sometimes imperious sway.
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It's dismantling the pretension of having an album but also poking fun at the imperious cult-leader kind of imagery of the last record.
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In the long run, however, Seila Law would also make it much harder for Congress to insulate certain federal officials from an imperious president.
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We watch him move, with an imperious rhinocerine trudge, into the center of the frame, until he obscures our view of Thunberg almost altogether.
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The "we" of Chase's lyric and fierce 1983 debut is made up of four cousins, the granddaughters of the imperious woman they call Gram.
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But he didn't seem as shallow as the world that he presided over, and he wasn't the imperious sovereign, insulating himself from the commoners.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey cements his repressive and increasingly imperious rule in a dubious referendum and gets a congratulatory call from Trump.
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It's partly a response to Mr. Macron himself — a former investment banker with an imperious personal style — and spells big trouble for his government.
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Also out of the picture now is McLaren's equally imperious chief executive, Ron Dennis, 21967, who was replaced by Brown in the off-season.
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On the plus side, Bergen slides into her imperious character like she was never away, and there's genuine warmth in the mother-son interactions.
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And so it must be asked: Will Dolan, the unpredictable and imperious owner of the team, find a way to mess it all up?
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Scowling Gatlin booed by Rio crowd Imperious Bolt completes amazing 100m triple Slideshow: Agony of defeat Her mother, Natalie Hawkins, says Douglas is heart-broken.
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Notably, the role of FDR's imperious mother -- who forbids the couple to divorce, even after Eleanor learns of his infidelity -- is played by Jane Alexander.
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Before: You were unusually imperious, even for a corporate big shot — waited on hand and foot by lackeys who stroked and coddled you for decades.
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Fiennes has fun with his exasperation over an insurmountable directorial challenge, as does Swinton playing the two imperious gossip queens for the price of one.
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He always did look his most imperious with a rolling start and he still holds the fastest 100m relay leg time, an unreal 8.65 seconds.
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Her name is Giulia, "imperious, with straight hair and a sharp chin," from a rich Venetian family and considerably less dead than Cenzo initially suspects.
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Regardless of some risky antics from Chelsea's imperious new striker Diego Costa, Chelsea edged the tie with an aggregate victory of two goals to one.
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Critics said the imperious way in which Mr. Xi scored his constitutional coup was a foretaste of how his power could swell into dangerous hubris.
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When she's not busy watching over Noah's shoulder, the school's imperious African-American principal, Jenelle Wilson (Sanaa Lathan), dogs the student with false plagiarism accusations.
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With his snowy beard and imperious bearing, Peter Dunning, at his most eloquent, conveys the authority of a biblical prophet but without a religious platform.
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But the contrast between Ms. Messmer's imperious force and Ms. Delgado's warm-blooded pathos is perfect, and Mr. Cerdeiro, keenly impulsive, becomes the ballet's heartbeat.
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Despite the work's title, Dejanira is the one who dominates the action, evolving through seven arias from impatient wife to imperious virago to despairing murderer.
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It is an incredibly dangerous signal, the most powerful man in the world giving one of its most impetuous and imperious petty tyrants free reign.
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Commanded by Tom Brady, the Patriots' offense remained as imperious as ever, riddling the Pittsburgh Steelers for three touchdown passes in a 36-17 victory.
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Taber blamed other pilots for being unprofessional over the radio, spoke of one pilot's "imperious manner" and called out others for being sarcastic and impatient.
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The "New Girlfriend" sketch on this weekend's season finale saw Armisen, dressed like Edith Head's imperious older sister, playing Sudeikis' new girlfriend at a house party.
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In interviews with Gizmodo, these former curators described grueling work conditions, humiliating treatment, and a secretive, imperious culture in which they were treated as disposable outsiders.
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I tried to go to a two-hour workshop called "The Business of Friendship," intending to write very imperious content about it, but it was full.
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To be sure, the Democratic Party must quell some of the more imperious stances that assume the Democrats will take total control of Congress in November.
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But Ms. Fonda, as the glamorous and imperious Grace, and Ms. Tomlin, as the aging-hippie sentimentalist Frankie, are the sole and sufficient reason to watch.
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This is a family only in the Mafia sense of the word, ruled by a ruthless and imperious Don who offers protection in return for fealty.
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Mr. Godfrey — a folksy, sentimental ukulele strummer to his audiences but an imperious, tyrannical boss behind the sets — ordered all his entertainers to take dancing lessons.
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Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department spokesman Tom Francis declined to answer questions about the blaze, stating that it was under "the imperious authority" of the Navy.
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As she sits across from this imperious man, Shideh looks out the window framing her and her interlocutor and sees a bomb falling on the city.
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"We have had enough imperious paternalism from Albany and Washington," he told Democrats in western New York in May 1973, months before officially announcing his candidacy.
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Swinton's photography exhibition at Aperture, based on Woolf's iconic novel, Orlando, does not challenge our imperious need to classify bodies, but is definitely one worth seeing.
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Numerous people who have worked with Mr. Bannon over the past few months said that his attitude lately had grown more imperious and aloof than normal.
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Set in rural Italy, "Happy as Lazzaro" traces the story of a blissful innocent who with several dozen relatives works the land for an imperious owner.
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The portrait he creates of his former boss reveals a man of great curiosity, generosity and creativity, but also a frequently imperious and unreasonably demanding perfectionist.
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Beneath all the buffoonery, the novel moonlights as a chronicle of women fed up with the imperious but weak and self-absorbed men all around them.
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The story is about the hellish tenure of a young woman working as the personal assistant to Ms. Priestly, the imperious editor of a fashion magazine.
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He claimed that secular intellectuals were "very imperious dogmatists," contemptuous of the simple feelings of ordinary people, and as "cruel" in their "intolerance" as Catholic priests.
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Marina Rebeka, at the Met, lacked Meade's imperious agility in rapid-fire fioritura, although her rich, chiaroscuro tone and her fierce dramatic commitment provided ample compensation.
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"Joan." That would be Joan Crawford, whom Dunaway played in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest, based on Christina Crawford's tell-all book about her imperious Hollywood mother.
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Star Wars has tried to equal Thrawn's imperious genius in subsequent EU comics, novels, and games, but none of the revolving cast of baddies have come close.
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"It's our moment to become a star," says Blanca, whose determination to chart her own course puts her at odds with the imperious Elektra Abundance (Dominique Jackson).
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Kendricks, unbeaten in 2017 after 10 competitions outdoors and one indoors, was again in imperious form as he moved through the first five heights without a failure.
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The imperious restaurateur thrust out his bared chest (he was wearing a low-cut caftan) and repeated the word as though I'd just piddled on his rug.
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Prison is its own confounding gantlet, overseen by an imperious inmate, Freddy (Michael Kenneth Williams, characteristically smoldering), who may matter more to Naz's survival than any judge.
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Years ago it might have been jazz; this time he has filled Mnuchin's imperious quarters with classical Japanese court music, further shaking up fixed notions of Otherness.
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Mercury, as he struggles with his sexuality and his need for creative autonomy, is a collection of adjectives — imperious, vulnerable, witty, forlorn — in search of a personality.
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Most of the furnishings, however, reflect the French Empire tastes of a wealthy later occupant, the imperious Eliza Jumel (1775-1865), who married Aaron Burr in 1833.
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Kaling's view of the landscape and its inhabitants — the imperious star, the neurotic writers, the beleaguered producer (Denis O'Hare) — is critical without cynicism or even much anger.
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Mr. Macron's words and planned actions framed an attempt by a politician regarded as aloof and imperious to connect with ordinary citizens in Europe's third-largest economy.
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Seaver wanted more money and the Mets' board chairman, M. Donald Grant, who was imperious to the point of self-satire, bridled at the help acting up.
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But she was a favorite of aficionados — especially as Strauss's Salome and Elektra — with her white-hot voice and her gift at being simultaneously imperious and vulnerable.
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Mr. Macron's perceived imperious manner — in a country where toppling leaders is part of the national DNA — has only compounded the fears of social and economic slippage.
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This word describes the imperious sense of entitlement that authority figures feel over their employees, whom they expect to wait on them and cater to their whims.
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It took the Western world many generations of religious wars and persecutions before liberal thinkers, in the 17th and 18th centuries, began to challenge this imperious logic.
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Yes, she took down Bloomberg, a paper tiger whose billions cannot buy him a joke writer, a man shown to be both insufferably paternalistic and ungracefully imperious.
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On the "battleground" of family, imperious, imposing Isabella has long been a "formidable adversary, someone I had reason to fear," and here she launches a subtle strike.
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"He wasn't gentle or imperious," said Michael John Garcés, a Cuban-American writer, director and actor who worked at Intar after graduating from the University of Miami.
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They will pass through the stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) and come out willing to be lashed into line by an imperious president.
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He smokes in his office, orders a high-ranking official to fetch him coffee, makes imperious proclamations ("I put no stock in consensus") and ignores long-established protocols.
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He has become increasingly imperious and authoritarian, presenting himself in rallies and speeches as the only safeguard against right-wing radicals who want to re-establish an oligarchy.
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But Djokovic moved 40-0 up with an ace and sealed the match with an imperious backhand down the line, booking his 27th successive grand slam quarter-final.
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Nadal had looked imperious on his way to a 12th quarter-final at Roland Garros, but the diminutive Schwartzman played with aggressive intent to rock the claycourt king.
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But far more often, Trump has conducted himself like an imperious adolescent, someone who believes he has all the answers and all the right moves, reality be damned.
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A Susan Hayward type smolders in a royal-purple robe; and a Ruby Keeler clone, an imperious gamin of a certain age, poses before a digitally inserted cityscape.
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But within Western constraints, Trump has displayed plenty of examples of imperious behavior that raise concerns that his presidency represents a challenge to constitutional norms and civic institutions.
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Plum works in the perception industry, for a teen-oriented fashion magazine named Daisy Chain, where she ghostwrites an advice column for the imperious editor, Kitty (Julianna Margulies).
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The result was a toothless board, internal watchdogs with no authority to investigate top executives and, according to Nissan's new leaders and former employees, an imperious corporate leader.
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Audrey II, it turns out, has a voice, a rolling, soulful, irresistibly imperious bass provided by Kingsley Leggs, sounding like a hybrid of Chuck Berry and Barry White.
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He imagined Trump, on the first day of his term, repealing all of Obama's executive orders and agency regulations—an imperious way to make the Presidency less imperial.
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Susan Sarandon's Davis barely registers next to that maelstrom of vulnerability, insecurity and rage, although it's fun to watch Sarandon play a woman so fearlessly and honestly imperious.
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Lucey must have felt that gorgeous, imperious, sharp-tongued Sally, who shunned suitors for many years to care for her mother — and never regretted it — wasn't sufficiently engaging.
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When Cookie chews him out for missing the big family dinner with Angelo and his imperious mother, Dre gets emotional, explaining that he was meeting Nessa's family instead.
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Owen (Hill), a diagnosed schizophrenic pressured by his imperious, wealthy New York family, meets the equally damaged Annie (Stone), who is wrestling with grief from a personal tragedy.
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Sometimes known as the Baroness, she was flinty and imperious and did not gladly suffer fools, a category that included most of the people who worked at Knopf.
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The aloof and imperious style that characterised Ms Park's presidency also cut it short; Choi Jong-kun of Yonsei University says she "looked down on the entire legal process".
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Its imperious chief executive, Patrick Kron (pictured below), who had by then presided over the company for a decade, deemed some of its units below scale to compete globally.
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He broke Evans in the fourth game of the third set and served out the match to love, sealing the win with an imperious backhand winner down the line.
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Perhaps the imperious American did not need to amp it up against out-matched Czech Barbora Strycova in a 6-1 6-113 trouncing on a sunny Centre Court.
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"Nice Rack" (2006), with a found Hallmark-greeting-card rack, brings together costume jewelry, fake fruit, an ergonomic snow shovel and a photographed portrait of an imperious Ronald Reagan.
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Years of living as a grandee had encouraged in the countess an imperious short-temperedness that I recognized, chillingly, as evidence of a volcanic impatience, which we also shared.
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Called in to steady the ship, Marin orchestrated a deft restructuring, refinancing three times, whittling down the imperious debt load to a more manageable $1.2 billion, and avoiding bankruptcy.
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Yet she was far too down-to-earth and plain-spoken to be genuinely imperious, as is made clear in a short film by another Carnegie habitué, Josef Astor.
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We lined up at the slightly less popular, but still excellent, Hing Kee Claypot Rice, dodging an imperious dishwasher carrying a load of bowls as we joined the line.
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Anthony Hopkins has been playing Ford's true feelings close to the vest, delivering monologues with the imperious arrogance of a man whose genius is most keenly understood by himself.
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The one who took best actress was Marie Mullen, who portrayed Maureen, a 40-year-old virgin shackled to her imperious, housebound mother, Mag (the splendidly slatternly Anna Manahan).
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When people admit to envy of Eastern dudes like Kerry, it's not just the money and the imperious bones (he stands 6 feet 4 inches) and the serious educations.
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It's a departure from the imperious and operatic style he's called his own over the past couple of years, instead focused on succinct club tracks and even some lovelorn ballads.
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As you look out the window, the sounds of an imperious organ dreamily weave in and out of synth chords ripped straight from the heart of the Blade Runner OST.
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In biographies of Trump, including my own, "The Truth About Trump," one is introduced to a man raised by an imperious father and a mother besotted by the British royals.
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In a tone that several witnesses described as imperious and aggressive, Mr. Kushner suggested that the national committee might not be giving Mr. Trump all the support he was due.
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There you had an entrenched, longtime, imperious C.E.O. who did not seem to be paying much attention to the core business and seemed more focused on drawing a big salary.
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Having finished a remarkable sixth in their first two seasons in Serie A, the Crociati won the Coppa Italia in 1992 after beating an imperious Juventus team over two legs.
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In one revealing exchange, his inherited right-hand man, Cardinal Voiello (Silvio Orlando), tries to call one of these jokes "telling," inciting yet another imperious smirk from his new boss.
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During his imperious phase, Ghosn divorced his wife of 28 years and remarried four years later, celebrating his nuptials with a lavish party at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris.
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Pliskova, a semi-finalist at Melbourne Park last year, was at her imperious best with her groundstrokes in a 25-minute first set she totally dominated despite a wayward serve.
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Jessica Chastain rules the Washington-based political thriller "Miss Sloane" with such steely authority that you are hard pressed to imagine another actress playing the imperious, largely unsympathetic title character.
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Hang out with a bunch of Cubans, and the minute someone gets imperious, someone else will call her out for "the little Fidel" in her; in all of us, really.
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Ms. Gillies ("Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll") seizes the screen as the lusty, ambitious Fallon, and Alan Dale is imperious as the snooty Carrington butler (another holdover figure from the original).
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These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.
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Daenerys can be imperious when she's out to impress new allies or bully new enemies, but she drops her guard easily enough around people she trusts, and they're already building trust.
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Vardy's form plummeted, his once magical partnership with Riyad Mahrez ceased to twinkle, and his imperious rise to the pinnacle of English football juddered and screeched to a near-total halt.
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At the same time, "The Last Tycoon" does yield a few standout performances, most notably Jennifer Beals as an imperious movie star that Brady is banking on to save the studio.
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Like you just said, you can't help falling in love with him, because he's got this kind of outer arrogant, imperious shell, and then he's got this underside that's just unbelievable.
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And the Trump administration, which has embraced the imperious Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, as its star Arab ally, is reluctant to lose him and his sackfuls of arms money.
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The Mets chairman, M. Donald Grant, an imperious stockbroker, forced Jones to bring his wife to a news conference and apologize, a moment skin-crawling in its grotesquerie and racial overtones.
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Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) breaks away from the imperious ball legend Elektra (Dominique Jackson), mother of the House of Abundance, to form her own house, which she christens the House of Evangelista.
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To this end, he seems ready to pass some of his campaign proposals swiftly, without much legislative input, by relying on a powerful technocracy, even at the risk of seeming imperious.
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Writing in The New York Times, Stephen Holden said she stars "with such steely authority that you are hard pressed to imagine another actress playing the imperious, largely unsympathetic title character."
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He was, in some respects, a caricature of the German academic (which he had once expected to become): an imperious know-it-all with untamed hair in a misbuttoned frock coat.
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I cannot say I share the taste for these I.P.A.s, which, with their emphasis on the imperious flavors of American hops, are the equivalent of oaky California chardonnays of the 23s.
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Some even argue that Trump, in psychological terms, offers the same basic appeal as the God of the Bible to believers — he's imperious, driven by whim, and demanding of fierce, unquestioning loyalty.
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As is, the movie stands out most for Emma Thompson's performance as an imperious talk-show host, who receives an unexpected jolt after making what she freely admits is a "diversity" hire.
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Laying the place out means screaming that "This is not fire in the park, this is fire in Brooklyn" before launching into the effortlessly imperious "Shut Up", his words simmering and dismissive.
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Once again, we have a beautiful young ballet dancer, Victoria Page, torn between art, represented by her imperious Russian ballet director, Lermontov, and love, in the person of her composer boyfriend, Julian.
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Tomlin) and her ex, Sol (Sam Waterston), have had for old times' sake — which threatens to sabotage his union with Robert (Martin Sheen), the former husband of the imperious Grace (Ms. Fonda).
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In the third installment, "House of Special Purpose," Olivia (Christina Hendricks), a high-profile actress, is on location in Austria shooting a Romanovs mini-series directed by the imperious Jacqueline (Isabelle Huppert).
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Edgardo, the laird of that estate, has fallen in love with Lucia, the sister of a rival clan, the Lammermoors, now headed by her imperious brother, Enrico, who is Edgardo's sworn enemy.
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He had puffy cheeks, slightly sunken eyes, straight brown hair, and a kind of goofy, high-strung optimism at odds with the popular notion of chefs as chilly sophisticates or imperious pirates.
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But the count of his errors also started creeping up as Djokovic regained control to get the contest back on serve and then took the set with an imperious display in tiebreak.
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"Leaders whose schedules are always booked up or whose [executive assistants] ... say no to too many people risk being viewed as imperious, self-important, or out of touch," Porter and Nohria noted.
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He has such a light tone, so imperious a command of data and such a rich fund of anecdotes that we are swept swiftly along to the last third of the book.
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A few years ago, I saw its wildly inventive "A Midsummer Night's Dream," which reset the play backstage at a theater with Oberon as an imperious director and Puck as a beleaguered stagehand.
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In an industry long-dominated by imperious tycoons intent on amassing power—think of Rupert Murdoch, or Viacom's Sumner Redstone in his heyday—Mr Bewkes has shrunk a content empire, not expanded it.
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In contrast, Will Traynor (Sam Claflin), is imperious and sarcastic, both because he is an aristocrat (in an actual castle) and because an accident has left him mostly paralyzed from the neck down.
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Relatives have described Barack Obama Sr. as a complicated man, brilliant and imperious, charming and brash, who began to drink heavily as his dreams of becoming one of Kenya's leading government economists foundered.
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In short, human rights has never been off the agenda of Mr. Obama's Cuba policy, but experience has taught him that making imperious demands and issuing ultimatums did nothing to advance the cause.
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Each element of Iceland's imperious performance – their tactical cohesion, their clear blueprint for victory, their refusal to accept their place in the hierarchy – served to show up the exact opposite in their opponents.
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Fortunately, Coon proves a compellingly enigmatic and imperious figure, and not incidentally has the chance to share billing with her real-life husband, Tracy Letts, who appears as an old pal of Harry's.
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Before there was such a thing as free agency, back when the privilege of ownership essentially included the players along with the franchise, Dolan's imperious ways would not have cost him transcendent talent.
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The cast includes Kelly Bishop as Fanny Flowers, the imperious dance teacher who takes Michelle on; other familiar "Gilmore" faces include Liza Weil and Sean Gunn in a cameo as a haughty barista.
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On "Barry," Mr. Winkler's character is a wonky amalgam of nearly every drama teacher Mr. Winkler has ever had, the imperious Stella Adler included, along with a few others he just heard about.
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Djokovic was in imperious form before the pandemic brought the tennis season to a halt with both the men's ATP Tour and the WTA Tour, which runs women's competitions, suspended till June 7.
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But the people who play them — Daniel Levy (David), Annie Murphy (Alexis), Catherine O'Hara (Moira, the imperious matriarch) and Eugene Levy (the paterfamilias, Johnny) — were less so as the show neared its end.
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In an effort to undercut the argument, prosecutors sought to portray Mr. Hernandez's unusual behavior as overstated or a reflection of an imperious and manipulative father and husband, instead of a personality disorder.
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A relaxed Coleman, who also posted the fastest time in the opening round, looked imperious as he eased up 10 meters from the finish then coasted across the line for a comfortable win.
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Djokovic, who had complained of competing with flu-like symptoms in his previous matches this week, was proud and relieved to repel a wonderful challenge from Federer, who appeared close to his imperious best.
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His low point: While listening to a question, Castro had a somewhat imperious look about him, with his head angled slightly up; he appeared to be judgmentally looking down his nose at the moderator.
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But for better or for worse, the entire premise of the Sanders campaign is that the existing Democratic Party establishment needs to be overthrown, so imperious dismissals by establishment figures don't really hurt Sanders.
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UFC 201 will be righting that wrong on Saturday and in some style, featuring imperious welterweight champion Robbie Lawler defending his crown against Tyron Woodley and a smattering of good fights across the board.
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In her day job, Ms. Warren cuts an imperious swath through the Capitol, striding down hallways, her jewel-toned jacket swaying behind her, refusing to speak to or even make eye contact with reporters.
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Miles wheedles and begs the Commune's departing member to recommend him as a cast member for "Weekend Live," whose suave, imperious head writer, Timothy (Seth Barrish), is allergic to cast members promoting their friends.
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Showcasing some of the most talented photographers of our time, Swinton's exhibition is certainly one worth seeing, even if it does not offer a curatorial intervention or challenge our imperious need to classify bodies.
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Her characters may be unworldly even while proclaiming their worldliness, like the imperious, elderly Miss Doggett, in "Jane and Prudence," who knows that men only want one thing, but cannot remember what it is.
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Recently announced projects include director Baz Luhrmann's announced biography of Elvis Presley (already immortalized in multiple projects), this time starring Austin Butler as the young singer and Tom Hanks as his imperious manager, Col.
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Halep, who has won the tournament for the last two years, had looked imperious on her way to the last eight, dropping nine games in three matches including Wednesday's victory over Pliskova's twin sister Kristyna.
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The will to powerFidel Castro, Cuba's communist leader, who outlasted ten American presidents, died on November 25th, aged 90 He was tall, erect and had a high, domed forehead that made him look naturally imperious.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City maintained their imperious start to the season with a fifth straight victory on Saturday as Bournemouth were swept aside 210-23 to become the latest victims of Pep Guardiola's table-toppers.
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If one thing is clear, it is that his imperious rule, jet-setting life (albeit much of it on company business) and high pay helped bring about his downfall by alienating once-loyal Japanese subalterns.
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First of all, it was a stroke of genius to pit Gruber – such an imperious, arrogant (and well, European) character ("Benefits of a classical education," he muses at one point) – against Willis's blue-collar McClane.
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While Mr. Pryce invests even Shylock's fits of anger and vengeance with a measured complexity, the Portia of Rachel Pickup has fewer grace notes, coming across here mostly as a smart but imperious young woman.
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Newly independent, Cambodia was unburdened by war and foreign overlords for the first time in centuries, and the cosmopolitan but imperious King Norodom Sihanouk was free to shape the country according to his own wishes.
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Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz are rivals for the favor of the queen, who is played with almost indescribable magnificence — she's pitiful, imperious, grotesque and commanding, sometimes all at the same time — by Olivia Colman.
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Only when Ms. Hässle tries to supplicate the imperious Ms. Bürkle, honestly pouring out her maternal desires to Elektra's derision and scorn, does Mr. Rasche's industrially rigorous "machine theater" succeed on an emotional, human level.
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Even among the devoted former colleagues and board members who spoke on his behalf, there was an acknowledgment that Mr. Wilson could be imperious, demanding, difficult, and compulsively wedded to his way of doing things.
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An intermediate layer of flashbacks finds Offred, Moira and a class of future handmaids at a re-education center being indoctrinated, with homilies and a cattle prod, by Aunt Lydia (a coolly imperious Ann Dowd).
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The title "Broken Windows" evokes that deeply contentious theory of neighborhood maintenance (or imperious control) first hypothesized by James Q. Wilson, a professor of political science and public administration, and George L. Kelling, a criminologist.
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It picks up some steam with the late appearance of Will Ferrell returning as the nasty Mugatu, a power-mongering fashion titan whose mixture of imperious hauteur and prissiness suggests an extreme caricature of Karl Lagerfeld.
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Faber was in imperious form on Saturday night, scoring a number of knockdowns and coming close in securing a stoppage win through some close-call submission attempts against wily, tough-as-nails Brit Brad Pickett. OMG!!!!
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But Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell revealed a different side of his imperious wail for this stripped-down cover released last year that features his voice backed only by acoustic guitar and cello, and it's quite moving.
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Defending men's champion Roger Federer's will look to continue his imperious advance through the draw when he meets Frenchman Richard Gasquet, while six-times champion Novak Djokovic and young gun Alexander Zverev are also in action.
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The one character going against the come-together grain, meanwhile, remains Cersei (Lena Headey, at her imperious best), who doesn't seem to mind seeing much of the world burn as long as she winds up surviving.
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If a client comes in nervous, I might be more nurturing as I spank them over my knee; if they slide into a submissive role with confidence, I know I can be a bit more imperious.
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It is written that Real is the imperious one, the club that since 1955 has won the European Cup or the Champions League an unprecedented 11 times, while its neighbor, Atlético, has never worn that crown.
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The sound is lean, underweight in the lower strings, unreverberant; but individual sections and instruments are clear and beautiful, and the orchestra brings off Toscanini's approach—sharpened attacks and imperious speed—with breathtaking accuracy and exhilaration.
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The few extra characters he adds to the lineup pass muster, from MacAuslon to an imperious bank manager; a beguiling, bright-eyed Scottish photographer; and an old Eton chum, Monty, who is besotted with Florence Craye.
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A more enduring performance came two years later when she starred on Broadway in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," Jay Allen's play based on a Muriel Sparks novel about an imperious teacher in the 1930s.
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Opening with a glimpse of the future is an overworked framing device, but the Paris scenes have snap and a fitting dankness, and it's where van Gogh meets an imperious, seductive Gauguin (a perfect Oscar Isaac).
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"Because of the failure of its policies in the Middle East, America has turned to the outdated and disgraced weapon of threats and intimidation to impose its imperious policies on other countries," Qasemi said, state television reported.
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Alves was part of an imperious defense which conceded only one goal in six games — Paolo Guerrero's converted penalty in the final — and provided extra fuel to his side's midfield with incisive forward play throughout the tournament.
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Murphy, who is the world record holder in the 100 metres backstroke, proved imperious in Tokyo, winning both the 100 and 200m individual events before clinching his third gold of the meet in the 4x100m medley relay.
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The Polish-born Rubinstein may have the exotic and imperious countenance of an aging silent-movie vamp (crossed with Cloris Leachman's Frau Blücher in "Young Frankenstein"), while the perky, blond Arden could pass as Beaver Cleaver's mother.
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Relegated to Court Suzanne Lenglen while defending champion Novak Djokovic was swatting aside Spain's Marcel Granollers on the main Philippe Chatrier showcourt, Nadal was imperious as he steamed through the first set in under half an hour.
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Mr. Baldwin portrays the chief executive as a blustering bully, imperious with the women on his staff, indignant with female authority figures and unfazed by the accounts of numerous women who say Mr. Trump sexually assaulted them.
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In "Provocateur" the Gervais-Merchant role is taken by Mr. Ranganathan's imperious mother, Shanthi, who — in the show's storyboarded "reality" — sends him to Sri Lanka to connect with his roots and, if possible, lose a little weight.
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That is a hazard of playing in the same era as the nine-time champion Rafael Nadal, who was at his most imperious Friday afternoon, winning, 6-0, 6-1, 6-0, over 63rd-ranked Nikoloz Basilashvili.
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Romantic, flamboyant, imperious, priapic, courageous, foolhardy, ambitious, George Armstrong Custer is most famous for his death, but this sympathetic biography attempts to demythologize and reassess a complicated figure who both embodied and chafed against a modernizing society.
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NEW DELHI — A paroxysm of grief began rippling through the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Monday when its longtime leader, an imperious former starlet known by her followers as Amma, or Mother, was pronounced dead.
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Nadal, after all, had won his tenth French Open title in 2017 without dropping a single set and has been in imperious form, arriving in Paris with a 19-1 win-loss record on clay this year.
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There isn't a butler in the parlor, but there is a rather too virtuous caretaker, Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas), who worked for the manor's imperious patriarch Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), who suddenly and rather flamboyantly croaks.
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Imagine the global excitement she could have stirred had she flashed that imperious smile, clapped three or four times and then stopped in mid-air, as if she caught herself in the middle of a forbidden act.
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The first episode is perhaps the strongest, featuring veteran actress Marthe Keller as the imperious matriarch of a Romanov-connected family living in Paris, who chases away every caregiver that her nephew (Aaron Eckhardt) hires for her.
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Then it seems like Rachel Weisz's gloriously imperious Sarah Churchill is the one to root for, especially after a nasty accident, when it seems like she's going to return to fuck shit up in her lace facial wrap.
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Turning any real-life actor into an outsized comic book hero is hard, but Gal Gadot seems to have been born to play Wonder Woman: she has the athleticism and the presence, the imperious confidence and warm approachability.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's latest gambit to choke off the flow of information for past spy chiefs who have criticized him is a disturbing move that again exposes an imperious streak out of place in American democracy.
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The sights associated with it — of rioters hurling cobblestones at the police, of whimsical graffiti, of occupied factories and the imperious visage of President Charles de Gaulle — are as familiar as pictures of Woodstock or the moon landing.
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My son, like so many children growing up in New York and fed with its imperious cultural attitudes, would sooner eat a head of escarole than choose to see something dependent on the word "spectacular" as a noun.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russa — For so much of Friday afternoon, there was a battle going on in Russia between Brazil and Argentina, but it was nothing like the usual fight for supremacy these two imperious soccer nations usually wage.
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The policy dates to the days when George Steinbrenner, a product of a military boarding school and a second lieutenant in the Air Force, was putting his imperious stamp on the franchise after buying the team in 1973.
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In 1977, a contract dispute with the cartoonishly imperious Mets chairman, M. Donald Grant, was viciously spun by Dick Young into a Desperate Players Wives plot; Nancy Seaver, he claimed, wanted Tom to make more than Nolan Ryan.
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Despite fielding a strong side including Ozil, Sanchez, Olivier Giroud and their invaluable attacking lockpick, Santi Cazorla, Arsenal lost the first leg 216-22012 at the Emirates, muscled into submission by an imperious midfield display from Geoffrey Kondogbia.
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Engineered by a musician named Tony K, Views from the Throne places the words of Toronto's very own Euron Greyjoy (both of their arcs make no sense and are based on pettiness) atop Ramin Djawadi's imperious fantasy score.
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Fortunately, Heigl is only a small part of a high-powered ensemble that includes colleagues portrayed by "The West Wing's" Dule Hill, "Orange is the New Black's" Laverne Cox and Elliot Gould as the firm's imperious, slightly quirky patriarch.
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I held my tiny hand palm out to block the light, But the sun was imperious, hungry, its great beak sufficient as whales to Jonah, as black holes to dwarf stars, And I knew we are not a family.
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GOP defense of Trump Comey's sometimes imperious manner and disclosure that he had orchestrated a leak about his conversation with Trump to prompt the appointment of a special prosecutor, meanwhile, cleared the way for GOP attacks on his motives.
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Works from the Kaigetsudo studio use bold, thick lines on paper, and depict statuesque and imperious women, while the women in Matsuno Chikanobu's work, painted on silk with the most expensive pigments, are smaller, with rounder, more childlike features.
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The new season picks up in the wake of that scenario, with Logan back at full force, a model of sheer aggression, seeking to prove with every imperious gesture just how far the apples can fall from the tree.
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Along which lines, this is the sort of show that may invite charges of slumming by a world-famous architect who, it is said, often gives off the imperious, slightly impatient impression that he has something better to do.
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Not after a 20193-0 win, and not after the most imperious performance it has produced this season, which is no light compliment given that Liverpool has won 17 of its 18 games so far, and tied the other.
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Critics have homed in on its dramatization of ageless gender stereotypes and divisions of labor: The men can be imperious, the women submissive; the garage is often the domain of the husband, the kitchen the responsibility of the wife.
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As well as a background in economics, he has the virtue of hailing from a small country that is neither improvident nor imperious—the kind of country that would be a member of Asia's Hanseatic league if it had one.
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For the rest of her life, she leased her own theaters, hired all her fellow actors, and chose her own roles, often commissioning plays written expressly for her, in which she incarnated women as imperious as she was: Theodora, Cleopatra, Tosca.
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Ms Faludi's father, who had been Istvan Friedman as a persecuted Jew in Budapest, then Steven Faludi as an "imperious patriarch" in America, was now Stefánie, a coquettish septuagenarian with a taste for frilly aprons, glittery heels and male attention.
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The strength of the casting, notably, goes well beyond that, including Cynthia Erivo -- who joins the plot too late in the game to fully register -- Daniel Kaluuya ("Get Out") as Jamal's ruthless henchman, and Robert Duvall as Farrell's imperious father.
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Editorial The choice Angela Merkel had when Turkey's imperious president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, demanded that Germany prosecute a comedian was a variation on the dilemma posed by a kidnapper: Paying the ransom solves the immediate problem but sets a dangerous precedent.
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But she also gives us (as much as the truncated text allows) an awareness of Kate's developing attraction to Petruchio, and you can feel her trying hard to go along with his imperious demands without submerging her own strong personality.
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Before long, Alma is sharing a home with Reynolds and his imperious sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville), who is vital to creating an environment in which her brother can work, and in her own way, she's every bit as clenched and formidable.
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The series, a comedy-drama set in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, required a foil for its raucous, irreverent, martini-guzzling leads, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and B.J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell), and Mr. Stiers's imperious Maj.
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The series, a comedy-drama set in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, required a foil for its raucous, irreverent, martini-guzzling leads, Hawkeye Pierce (Alan Alda) and B. J. Hunnicutt (Mike Farrell), and Mr. Stiers's imperious Maj.
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There, piled up next to the cash register, could be found his latest productions, and there he was championed by the original owner, the imperious Frances Steloff, and her successor, Andreas Brown, who eventually took charge of Gorey's business affairs.
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Fortunately for the world in general, she has taken it into her head, that condescension is the most distinguishing virtue of high life; so that the same pride of family which renders others imperious, is with her the motive of affability.
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There have been reports of other complex transactions between Nissan and its former boss which, if true, suggest that an imperious leader may have lost his sense of the boundary between his own finances and those of the firm he ran.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic continued his imperious progress through the Australian Open draw on Sunday, negotiating a potentially tricky encounter with Diego Schwartzman 20153-3 6-4 6-4 to reach the last eight at Melbourne Park for the 11th time.
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The decision to rip away Brennan's clearance encapsulates Trump's imperious, insecure personalization of policy, his propensity to lie to justify his transgressions, and his flailing efforts to quiet his critics -- efforts that, as we have already seen, are doomed to fail.
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The two get lessons in second banana-hood from Shy's manager ("This is Us'" Sterling K. Brown, like Luke Kirby's Lenny Bruce, a welcome if sporadic presence) and imperious stardom from Jane Lynch's Sophie Lennon, a more one-note role.
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It is the President's extreme view of himself as the "king" his father told him he was that came to the fore as he became president and, isolated in the trappings of White House pomp and deference, became ever more imperious.
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Washington (CNN)The forced resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is not just the usual story of an administration racked by chaos and the short shelf life of almost everyone who works for an imperious and grudge-bearing President.
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The Chinese came into the tournament with top-seven finishes in the five of her last six starts and, wielding a hot putter, continued that imperious form to lead Japan's Ai Suzuki by two shots after a bogey-free second round.
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Then there's Electra herself, an imperious queen of the ballroom whose Shakespearean verbal takedowns are delivered with devastating regality, as well as Pray Tell, the costume-designing, shade-dealing king who acts as the ballroom emcee and surrogate father to the fatherless.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Seventh seed Marin Cilic swept into the fourth round at Wimbledon with a 6-4 7-6(3) 6-4 win over American Steve Johnson on Friday to end an imperious opening week with a third consecutive straight sets victory.
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His persona also seems to meet the same sadistic public need satisfied by original Idol judge Simon Cowell: The executive heir, the imperious arbiter of taste who owes his fortune at least as much to his superiority complex as to any financial acumen.
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Dimitrov, who has shown signs of rediscovering his 2014 best when he won Queen's, was in imperious form, reducing Harrison to such frustration that the American landed a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct after smashing his racket against his foot in the second set.
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Lowry, who comes from across the border in County Offaly, has become the darling of the fans who have flocked to the Northern Ireland coast and was imperious as he put together a stunning course-record 63 to open a four-shot lead.
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Looking like their imperious old selves, the host nation went ahead after 12 minutes when Casemiro nodded home after a goalmouth scramble and Roberto Firmino made it two seven minutes later after keeper Pedro Gallese made a hash of his kick out.
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While Plummer's portrayal of Getty as an imperious, penny-pinching plutocrat has a timely aspect in this age of income disparity, those very qualities border on caricature, as the movie's sympathies reside with Getty's daughter-in-law Gail, played by Michelle Williams.
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The public feud between King James and the imperious President is on one level a personal and even ideological clash between two of the richest, most famous entertainers in American life whose outsize images outshine the confines of the roles they currently play.
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Having been firm favourites to top Group D and progres as the first-placed team, they were thoroughly outplayed by an excellent Croatia side whose midfield of Ivan Perišić, Ivan Rakitić and Milan Badelj looks commanding, imperious and nothing short of all-conquering.
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The impact: With his abrupt and imperious call to bring Putin back into the diplomatic fold, Trump has made European leaders who might be formulating their own overtures to Moscow look as though they're taking orders from a deeply unpopular American president.
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Adopting a gentle Australian accent that flips from melodious to imperious on a dime, Mr. Carvel positions Murdoch as a media baron in embryo who knows what he wants from his new Fleet Street perch and who is determined to get it.
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The 23-year-old made a stuttering start to the tournament on Monday but was imperious against the highly rated Rybakina, whose power hitting and big serve led to her first WTA title and propelled her into the top-40 last year.
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One of the most common descriptors for Bloomberg during his tenure as mayor was "imperious" and one of the labels most often applied to Sanders is "ideologue," while both pejorative, they imply two flavors of "my way or the highway" approaches to politics.
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And while he is an imperious personality with a disdain for limits — he got the rules changed so he could serve a third term as mayor of New York — he also doesn't share the president's criminality, corruption and complete contempt for constitutional government.
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Djokovic clinched the Madrid Open without dropping a set and then won a pair of epic battles against Argentines Juan Martin Del Potro and Diego Schwartzman in Rome before succumbing to the imperious Nadal 212-0 4-6 6-1 in Sunday's final.
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The 23-year-old American was in imperious form as he led from start to finish to leave the field trailing in his wake before letting out a mighty scream and blowing a kiss to the sky as he crossed the line.
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He was back to his imperious best in Italy, avenging his defeat to Tsitsipas before whitewashing world number one Djokovic in the opening set for the first time on his way to a first title of the season which is unlikely to be the last.
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Throughout the series (which never won an Emmy, because The Amazing Race is a far superior series the system is rigged), Trump served as an imperious and sometimes impulsive reprimander-in-chief, pleading and interrupting his way through the show's end-of-episode boardroom scenes.
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The role of Titania beautifully showcases dissimilar dancers: young Miriam Miller, with face and limbs registering wonderfully throughout the theater, is all springtime bloom; Teresa Reichlen, marvelously incisive and exact, is warmly imperious; Sara Mearns, at her freshest and grandest, makes the dance joyously voluptuous.
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His sense of architecture is imperious, hiding moments that surprise, even disconcert: Take the little snaps of arrogance in the scherzo, or the way the harp-blessed beauty at the finale's core blushes as it arrives, as if trying to remember how to be grand.
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Phelps, who secured a trip to his fifth Olympics with a victory in the 200 butterfly on Wednesday, capped off his 31st birthday in imperious style by gliding to wall in one minute, 57.61 seconds, the third fastest time in the event this season.
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Grant (in his first significant TV role since the early '90s) and Whishaw are sensational, but they're surrounded by a splendid cast in even smallish roles, including Adrian Scarborough as an imperious barrister and Eve Myles as a woman who comes into Scott's troubled life.
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"Succession": What looked like a gimmick on paper -- an HBO series loosely modeled upon Rupert Murdoch's media dynasty -- turned into an engrossed window into the twisted dynamics of a wealthy family, jockeying for the approval of its imperious patriarch, wonderfully played by Brian Cox.
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Mr. Tillerson will likely be remembered as among the least successful secretaries of state in recent history, having alienated much of the White House staff and most of his own department with an imperious style, skeletal leadership team and missteps on the international stage.
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Think of Michael Caine in "Hannah" (1986), a sympathetic sinner animated by lust, envy and pride, and one of a gallery of semi-suitable suitors — along with Max von Sydow's imperious artist and Mr. Allen's spiritually anguished television writer — who surround the title characters.
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Ruled by the sparkly, pink-haired Princess (the daffily imperious Lesli Margherita), this is a place where the cool couple, Smiling Face With Smiling Eyes (just call her Smize) and Smiling Face With Sunglasses (he goes by Sunny), have been together since version 1.0.
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Clinton's successor, John Kerry, was viewed by some as an imperious boss who treated the department as a kind of playground, bringing his yellow Labrador retriever to work and letting the dog roam the building's seventh-floor suite of executive offices known as Mahogany Row.
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On a breezy day at the Kapalua Resort on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the imperious Spieth signed off with a six-under-par 67 to clinch his seventh career title on the PGA Tour, matching Tiger Woods in achieving that total before the age of 23.
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Sansa may be stuck up, Bran may have come back an imperious snob ("I see quite a lot now"), and Arya a stone-cold killer, but they are family, and nothing—certainly not Littlefinger, who must see that his welcome is wearing out—will part them again.
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When I was 22, I had to move out of the admittedly less imperious metropolis of Norwich and back this time to Cookley, still in Suffolk, because the person I was living with in Norwich didn't like me and kicked me out in favor of his friend.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Germany's Angelique Kerber began her reign as world number one in imperious style battling past a determined Karolina Pliskova 53-3 4-6 6-4 to win the U.S. Open final on Saturday and claim her second grand slam title of the year.
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The maids are sisters, Monique and Yvette, and when we first meet them, they are in the midst of the game they indulge in when La Doña is out: Yvette (Charlie Munn) is pretending to be the imperious mistress, while Monique (Casey Robinson) impersonates a humiliated Yvette.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City continued their imperious start to the season with a 21-1 win over Swansea City to reach the fourth round of the League Cup on Wednesday but it was a testing night for rivals United who eventually overcame Northampton Town 3-1.
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Also on the receiving end of Marvelous's imperious asides is her sister Margaret (a warm, slightly melancholy Melanie Nicholls-King), who has also become firmly assimilated into a new culture — Nyasha and her mother share a joke about her frequent "weaves" — albeit with less financial success.
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She is apologetic, since she understands that this makes for uninteresting conversation about the many fascinating characters she has played — most recently the imperious, needy, vulnerable, monstrous Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Favourite," for which she is hotly tipped as a best actress Academy Award nominee.
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An affable Italian who has spent most of his career in marketing, Mr. de Meo is likely to be less imperious and more diplomatic than Carlos Ghosn, who was chief executive of Renault before his arrest in Japan in November 2018 on charges of financial impropriety.
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At a time when many glorify strongman politicians or imperious CEOs, King offers a different kind of role model for a leader, says Jerald Podair, a history professor at Lawrence University in Wisconsin who has written a biography of one of King's closest advisors, Bayard Rustin.
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Nevertheless, it's worth a return to Downton if only for the greatness of these characters and their particular quirks, from hearing Carter's puffed-up Carson mention acts of "disloyal tomfoolery" to Smith's imperious Dowager saying, well, pretty much anything, especially when sparring with Isobel (Penelope Wilton).
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Roger Federer displayed imperious form to canter into the third round of the Australian Open on Wednesday with a 6-1 6-4 6-2018 thumping of Serb Filip Krajinovic, leaving the 20-time Grand Slam champion feeling a "little bit sorry" for his opponent.
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"In this book, I will not call these activities and their leaders by the honorable word reform, which they have brazenly appropriated," she writes, adopting an imperious tone that is new to her books (though not new to readers of her blog or frequent Twitter posts).
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But his observation that "whether ancient or contemporary, language is not kind to this color, often beautiful at first, but so quick to soil or fade" anthropomorphizes yellow in a way that makes you root for it to find place alongside the imperious red and ubiquitous blue.
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He plays chess and talks Marxism with Bertolt Brecht (the imperious tenor Andreas Conrad), quarrels over Zionism with the kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem (the insistent bass Tigran Martirossian) and dreams of proletarian children's theater with his Latvian mistress, Asja Lacis (the charged coloratura soprano Lini Gong).
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Although composers do not deserve blame for this state of affairs—conservative institutions are fundamentally at fault, having created a hostile atmosphere for new music as far back as the mid-nineteenth century—inscrutable program notes and imperious attitudes did not ease the standoff between artist and audience.
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In a Nuremberg-like speech to her victorious troops — which opened with the breathtaking image of Drogon's wings behind an imperious Emilia Clarke, as if unfolding from her own shoulder blades — Dany spoke of having "liberated" the people of King's Landing, who, to all appearances, were mostly dead.
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The new season — it's the third, but in a public-television in-joke, it's billed as the 52nd — includes sendups of Netflix's "Wild, Wild Country" with Owen Wilson in the guru role and of "Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present" with Cate Blanchett as a soulfully imperious performance artist.
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There is also the risk that Mr. Biden could appear presumptuous — even imperious — by choosing a running mate before the electorate has the chance to sift the field of candidates, presenting voters with a two-person package before anyone has voted for even the top spot on the ticket.
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More important for the purposes of the show, she falls under the spell of New York as embodied in her co-workers, including the imperious Simone (Caitlin FitzGerald of "Masters of Sex"), the scruffy-cute Jake (Tom Sturridge) and Sasha (Daniyar), a gay Russian with green-card problems.
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And although few in Beijing would dare blame Mr. Xi openly for the government's handling of the turmoil, there is quiet grumbling that his imperious style and authoritarian concentration of power contributed to the government's misreading of the scope of discontent in Hong Kong, which is only growing.
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Anja Blomgren — now Anja Bloom, a famously imperious Swedish actress who bears more than a passing resemblance to Liv Ullmann — is living in splendidly Bergmanesque isolation in an unnamed Northeastern city when she receives a visit from Sandrino Nencini, the son and namesake of John Horne Burns's lover.
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"The Philippines is immediately ordering the Bureau of Immigration to deny US Senators Dick Durbin and Patrick Leahy — the imperious, uninformed, and gullible American legislators who introduced the subject provisions into the 85033 budget — entry to the Philippines," presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo told reporters Friday, according to CNN.
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But unlike ISIS, which compels those under its rule to obey its draconian laws on penalty of extreme violence and gruesome execution, Nusra has generally taken a (relatively) less imperious approach, preferring to proselytize to rather than terrorize, and convince (rather than force) those under its control to embrace "true" Islam.
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Los Blancos claimed five league titles in the seventies and also won the Copa del Rey on three occasions, while Atletico – formerly favoured by the regime but rapidly positioning themselves as the antithesis of their cross-town rivals – also boasted an imperious side which won two titles and two cup finals.
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It's the sweetest distillation of Yachty's imperious summertime nonchalance: "Top of the building / athletes be my neighbors / These niggas soft like Life Savers / These niggas be bitches / Most of these niggas be hoes / Guess that that's just how it goes," he raps as an 8-bit beat bounds around behind him.
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To do so in opera would have required an antiheroine who was part Debussy's ambiguous, ambivalent Mélisande — whose first words, to the man who will become her husband, are "Don't touch me" — and part the imperious Emilia Marty in Janacek's "Makropulos Case," who keeps trading identities to elude shadowy pursuers.
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His acquisitions were second only to those of Moses, the legendary, imperious urban planner and master builder who, as the commissioner from 1934 to 1960, virtually created the department by unifying the parks of all five boroughs in one system and building hundreds of playgrounds and miles of parkways and beaches.
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Instead, the character is a work of fiction, an apparent amalgamation of numerous traits of various couturiers: Woodcock's imperious sister Cyril (played by Lesley Manville) helms the business — a nod to real-life couture counterparts in 1950s London, such as Victor Stiebel and Norman Hartnell, whose sisters managed their lines.
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Bizarrely, Martin, sat on his backside laughing in disbelief at what had just happened, slowly rose to his feet but either mistimed the ten count provided by Belgian referee Jean Pierre van Imschoot or deliberately stalled to avoid taking further punishment from the Watford-born Joshua who was clearly in imperious form.
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The central relationship in Mr. Weiner's life is with his wife, Huma Abedin, whose presence in the film — shaken, stoic, resigned, imperious, irritated — has been at the center of the anticipation surrounding it, given her close relationship to Hillary Clinton and all the analogies to which the two women's marriages lend themselves.
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And I would emphasize that those "in the know" do know — and after he leaves office it will be even more widely known — that both of his secretaries of State and several of his secretaries of Defense favored stronger policies but were repeatedly rebuffed by Obama and his imperious White House staff.
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Most of all, I admired the late Isabel de Madariaga, the author of "Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great," who taught me to write Russian history as I was starting my first one, "Catherine the Great & Potemkin," which she supervised with an imperious but indulgent severity that recalled the empress herself.
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To Republican (and some Democratic) critics, the Clean Power Plan exemplified everything they opposed about Mr. Obama: He seemed to them imperious, heavy-handed, pleasing to the elites on the East and West Coasts and in the capitals of Europe, but callous to the blue-collar workers of coal and oil country.
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While ensconced in a mental replica of the Clockworks Psychiatric Hospital, the institution where we first met him, he's being "treated" by one of the creature's many manifestations: David's old pal Lenny Busker (Aubrey Plaza, doing her best work in the series so far), now transformed from impetuous junkie into imperious psychiatrist.
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Undaunted by driving rain and looking in an imperious form, a beaming Merkel, a shoe-in for another term of office next September, was mingling last Tuesday with royalty and the great and the good at a black-tie opening night performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
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As dangerous as the last leg of the migrant journey to Britain often is, those petrifying hours in a trailer are sometimes only a sliver of months if not years of harsh treatment — first at the hands of organized trafficking gangs, and then under imperious bosses at nail salons and cannabis factories in Britain.
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Unlike in other high-flying parts — the imperious Queen of the Night in "The Magic Flute," the spunky Zerbinetta in "Ariadne auf Naxos," the long-suffering title role in "Lucia di Lammermoor" — there's little time for Ms. Luna to warm up: The A is her very first note, sung before she's even visible onstage.
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The business, however, has hit hard times despite some successes, forcing the level-headed Mel (Rose Byrne) to prod Haddish's creative guru Mia to accept an overture from a cosmetics giant run by imperious beauty maven Claire Luna, in what turns out to be a juicy part for Salma Hayek, sporting a flaming red mane.
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Everyone who knows anything about the law tells him to take the deal: his imperious, high-profile lawyer Alison Crowe ("We're way past 'I didn't do it,' Naz," she tells him); Freddy, the terrifying inmate who runs Rikers; even John Stone (played by John Turturro), who is still investigating the case even though Naz's parents fired him.
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At least for now, the imperious presidency of Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE has been held in check by a third branch of government, the judiciary.
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The people lifting up the metal gates on the stores looked at these two passersby—the dark woman with her imperious hawk's face, the tiny paperwhite of a girl—saw how scantily they were dressed against the cold morning, and many of them almost said something, but each looked again and swallowed the words, and turned away.
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The first row of panels includes, in nonchronological order, a blurry 1956 image of a newspaper lying on a sidewalk; a 1957 shot of an imperious matron, encased in fur, sitting on a city bus and staring icily at the camera; and a 1959 backstage portrait of a bare-chested drag queen prepping for a show.
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Some of its sharpest scenes are those skewering the rich: imperious Upper East Siders who utter racist, cringe-inducing microaggressions, or Mae's globe-trotting, surfer-bro boss, who in a single brainstorm evokes everything odious about a would-be pregnancy-commodification industry: "What if we began sourcing more of our Hosts from lower-middle-class Caucasians?" he suggests.
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An Appraisal Harold Bloom, the imperious and convivial scholar and literary critic, the last colossus in terms of his ardor and prodigious memory, a self-described "tired, sad, humane old creature," and a man who was increasingly isolated in his opinions about what the great books are and why they matter, was nothing if not prolific.
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At Fat Buddha, an East Village Asian-fusion ultra-dive, the eponymous Buddha (corpulent, imperious, swathed in mini disco balls, and encased in a glass box stuffed with cash) looks like a reincarnated bouncer who opted for an off-book route to enlightenment: namely, booze, hip-hop, and a jovial no-holds-barred policy on happy-hour pork buns.
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Working from a list supplied by her imperious subject, whose name is Harriet Lauler, she reaches out to all of the contacts, visits many of them in person, including Harriet's ex-husband, and fails to elicit a single compliment, blandishment or fond remembrance about a woman who was a prominent citizen for decades in her Southern California town.
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In the newer articles for The New Yorker included in this volume, whether trailing the imperious Russian opera singer Marina Poplavskaya on an exhaustive globe-trotting tour or simply hanging out in a Manhattan recording studio with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Talese remains a master of his craft, sensitively conveying the moods and quirks of his subjects.
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On a recent morning in December, Mr. Day-Lewis and the film's other stars — the British actress Lesley Manville, who appears as Reynolds's imperious sister and business manager, Cyril; and the Luxembourgian actress Vicky Krieps, who plays Alma, the designer's headstrong muse and love interest — were gathered to discuss the film as a trio for the first time without Mr. Anderson present.
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They include an impressively competent stockbroker reciting Futurist manifestoes with a slight Queens accent; an icy chief executive quoting manifestoes on abstract painting as if announcing the company's latest strategies; and an imperious Russian choreographer who rehearses a troupe of silver-garbed aliens more appropriate to Twyla Tharp, interspersing her impatient corrections with rebellious aphorisms from Fluxus and Performance artists.
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Mr. Hinterhäuser, 59, cuts a very different figure from some of his predecessors at the Salzburg Festival, including the imperious Herbert von Karajan (whom Mr. Hinterhäuser, as a young piano student here, once saw leaving a concert in his Porsche while the police stopped traffic for him) and the iconoclastic Gerard Mortier (for whom he programmed a contemporary music series).
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Le Pavillon was a seriously snooty place that began as a tourist restaurant in the French pavilion of the 1939 World's Fair, in Queens, but by the nineteen-fifties it had morphed into an East Side gastronomic temple, where the possibility of dinner was conferred on a chosen few by its imperious patron, and nobody else could get a table.
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Shortly before the midnight deadline, Mr. Cuomo had effectively given the legislators the weekend to come up with the elusive deal — he would "allow them a grace period," a phrase that struck some lawmakers as patronizing and borderline imperious — while simultaneously threatening to introduce emergency legislation for a so-called "extender" if a full budget could not be agreed upon.
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An opening number, "Hello From Winterfell," introduces the noble Stark family: Ned (the sturdy tenor Milo Shearer); his wife, Catelyn (an imperious Delilah Kujala); and their daughters, Arya (Meghan Modrovsky, as a sullen, rapping teenager) and Sansa (a one-note Allison Lobel), and sons Robb (Jeff Bratz) and Bran (Randy Wade Kelley, one of several actors fielding a few roles).
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Mary Frances goes by many names — Francie to her mother, Marlene to her father, Frankie or Imp to her brother — but as expertly rendered by Hamilton (whose many novels include "A Map of the World" and "The Book of Ruth") she's a storybook character, an inquisitive, imperious but lovable girl akin to Harper Lee's Jean Louise Finch, Rumer Godden's Cecil Grey or Ian McEwan's Briony Tallis.
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Not Vanya, the steward of his late sister's estate (played with defiant, abject rawness by a brilliant Mr. Sanders); or his niece and fellow manager, Sonya (Yvonne Woods, pinched with care); or her imperious father, Alexander Serebryakov (an elegant, fatuous Mr. DeVries), an aging professor in residence with his new, beautiful young wife, Elena (Celeste Arias, giving a traditionally glamorous part a homespun naïveté).
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Bringing Kevin Kwan's hit novel to the screen, "Crazy Rich Asians" gets the most important part of the movie very right, casting Constance Wu ("Fresh Off the Boat") as Rachel Chu -- the New York economics professor thrust into a world of staggering opulence, and almost-to-scale sniping and judgment -- and Michelle Yeoh as Eleanor, the imperious mother of Rachel's otherwise-perfect boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding, making a strong bid for romantic heartthrob status).
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There is no green-eyed, wasp-waisted, pillow-breasted, sneering-queen-of-the-damned villain who dumped me so swiftly and with such imperious, frigid beauty that I experienced chest pains and shortness of breath, leading to something called a Cardiolite stress test, which I just discovered my insurance company may not pay for and which has left me not only miserable and lonely and occasionally sobbing in public bathrooms but also about $6,000 in debt.
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Bounding around the stage of the Lyceum Theater, where the play opened on Monday, he jousts with not one or two but three different phones, nearly sweating through his gingham shirt as he gives voice to more than 40 characters, among them the harried but even-tempered central character, Sam; an imperious French maître d'; a patronizing bully of a chef; a chipper assistant to Gwyneth Paltrow; a socialite with a manner even more imposing than her name; and a lively menagerie of other New York types.
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In January, Ms. Salke attended the Sundance Film Festival for the first time as the Amazon Studios head — and the company went on a spree, shelling out significant sums for several films, including $14 million for "Brittany Runs a Marathon," a low-key, feel-good comedy now in theaters; another $14 million for "The Report," a government cover-up drama starring Annette Bening and Adam Driver that will have a limited release in November; and $13 million for the domestic rights to "Late Night," a comedy written by Mindy Kaling and starring Ms. Kaling as a neophyte TV writer and Emma Thompson in the role of an imperious talk show host.
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