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Imperatively

Imperatively \Im*per"a*tive*ly\, adv. In an imperative manner.

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imperatively

adv. In an imperative manner.

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imperatively

adv. in an imperative and commanding manner [syn: peremptorily]

Usage examples of "imperatively".

The noise battered imperatively on the eardrums of the self hypnotised Graham.

When we met a priest bearing the viaticum to some sick man, Senor Andrea would tell me imperatively to get out of my carriage, and then there was no choice but to kneel in the mud or dust as the case might be.

The information that Lanzecki awaited her was reinforced by that message on the green display, blinking imperatively.

It was blooping its motors steadily, imperatively, in one anxious roar after another.

And so in a language that would soon become quite typical (and is by now almost comical), Bataille goes on to point out that "putting everything into question" counters the human need to violently arrange things in terms of a pat wholeness and smug universality: "With extreme dread imperatively becoming the demand for universality, carried away to vertigo by the movement that composes it, the ipse being that presents itself as a universal is only a challenge to the diffuse immensity that escapes its precarious violence, the tragic negation of all that is not its own bewildered phantom's chance.

By means of rapid mechanical traction, it had brought men nearer together, so much nearer socially, economically, physically, that the old separations into nations and kingdoms were no longer possible, a newer, wider synthesis was not only needed, but imperatively demanded.