Maybe, he half-wondered or felt in some murky and illusive way that failed to come together as a cohesive thought, it was from not taking on that masculine pose of one ready to preempt his own selfish and sadistic impulses onto others for his own self-gratification.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills
The itch to lead and preempt the conversation became uncontrollable.
"Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness"
Robert S. Carroll
Laugh all you can and the small imps in blue who love to preempt their quarters in a human heart will scatter away like owls before the music of flutes.
"The Girl Wanted"
Nixon Waterman