The phrase "a certain arrogant" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used to describe someone with a specific type of arrogance, but it needs to be followed by a noun to be grammatically correct.
Example: "He was a certain arrogant individual who believed he was always right."
Alternatives: "a particular arrogant" or "an especially arrogant".
There is a certain arrogance in this, but then, as Petit says in more ebullient and playful moments, he has earned the right to be arrogant.
But, he says, he has outgrown certain arrogant assumptions he made in the early years.
As a pop star and an artist, he had a certain license to be arrogant, eccentric and overconfident in his beliefs and abilities.
As he – wealthy, attractive and arrogant ("a certain nonchalant self-confidence, the right to be at the centre of things, on the winning team") – becomes a car-crash, live-TV presenter (TFI Friday, anyone?), and she, a northern, chippy and self-deprecating lefty, pursues her dream to "not change the world exactly, just the bit around you", the narrative continues to throw their lives together.
Ryan Zinke, 49, a former member of Seal Team 6 who is now a Republican state legislator in Montana, said members of Team 6 had a certain personality: "I would say cocky, arrogant".
So I have come to suspect that something way more than merit is going on--something about Clinton as a woman--and a certain kind of woman: tough, sometimes arrogant, maybe even a bit phony at times.
As an individual, acknowledge that you can't be pretentious and arrogant, which is a certain characteristic that snobs possess.
A certain style dignified its grime; heavy, clumsy, arrogant, purse-proud, but not cheap; insular but large; barely tolerant of an outside world, and absolutely self-confident.
I love the city – it has a certain beauty and charm – but not the people so much; they can be a bit arrogant.
