WHAT is it about the story of two imperious warring women that so piques the imagination?

Istariel Wyant was a tall, imperious woman with a patrician nose and brows plucked down to thin lines.

A rather imperious woman, a difficult woman.

I wave at its driver, a tall, imperious woman.

The alleged insult prompted the imperious younger woman to tell her off, a clash the Globe dubbed a "shouting match" and "bitter palace showdown."

Jackie was leading the group, a tall graceful black-haired young woman, quite beautiful and imperious, the leader of her generation no doubt.

Halfway down the carpeted staircase, a tall imperious woman with a face that age and cosmetics had rendered into a cold mask of itself.

The fact that they did not prodded the interest of the imperious woman who kept glancing over in his direction.

Cold, imperious women, their beauty cut like crystal, the expression in their eyes as distant as far galaxies.

Our empathy is the last thing this fearless and imperious woman wants.