There are many twists in the plot, including her decision to take her revenge on Saint-Exupéry's haughty family by leaving her half-share of all the writer's royalties (as well as her house) to her gardener-chauffeur, Jose Fructuoso Martinez, who owns a mass of documents that can only be published when the quarrelling heirs come to some agreement.
No consequences for treating the fight with a haughty disrespect and ignoring the merits of an opponent who had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
For decades, Mountbatten's hard, haughty face was immediately recognisable, the symbol of a Britain that had largely disappeared.
Some say, given a literal-mindedness in honours distribution that evidently benefits individuals who have come top in running races or who regularly act being haughty, that it was Dame Joan's interpretation of Queen Rat in the Birmingham Hippodrome's Dick Whittington that secured her place on the latest list.
In fact, that haughty disparagement proved to be a stimulus to its circulation growth.
But in 2002, after an encounter with some Jersey residents desperate to fight the takeover of their island by "haughty, unpleasant strangers", the Tax Justice Network was formed with Christensen as one of its directors, and in the years since then tax avoidance and tax havens have moved into public awareness.
Besides his jokey attempts to shrug off criticism, punctuated by haughty snubs of parliament's censure, he has also until recently done too little to deter those of his supporters who seem prepared to resort to street violence.
But Mrs Tanaka is still hugely popular with the voters, who admire her sharp tongue, quick wits and penchant for abusing the foreign ministry's haughty mandarins.
And by not following the rules that most other government employees heed, she looks haughty.
"There is a limit to the number of roads, schools, clinics and water points that can be built and serviced effectively in any one year," it pointed out.In this section Haughty indifference, or masterly inactivity?
He incited the chieftain to jail some of Moctezuma's haughty and perfumed tax-collectors, only to secretly free them later so that they would return to their lord and give a favourable account of the stranger's magnanimity.This is also where the first seeds of mestizaje may have been sown.
