Sentence examples for a haughtiness from inspiring English sources

"There is no modesty, it is almost like a haughtiness".

Nevis, who hosts a Bible study class on Monday nights in his apartment, does not have a haughtiness about him.

And, anyway, Dovecote Christian's motto alone ("We Ask the Questions") should have tipped you off to a haughtiness that bars parents even from Parents' Night.

In the long months of negotiations over the government, some of Mr. Sadr's rivals complained of his delegates' rollicking arrogance about their power, a haughtiness echoed in the streets on Thursday.

It wouldn't be fair to characterise Spark as a writer for whom the world is secondary to the need to write about it, like the narrator of 'The Portobello Road'it'it was my ambition to write about life, which first I had to see'), but there is a sovereign impatience about her artistic temperament that can manifest in her later work as a haughtiness bordering on the tetchy.

Instead of a youthful, quasi-animal sexual curiosity, Gruzdyev evinces a saturnine haughtiness, giving the piece an unwarrantedly sinister edge.

Trends change each season, but the body language of catwalk models – an aloof haughtiness – has been a constant.

That's an awfully puffed-up position, and there's a corresponding haughtiness in the fact that bishops can assign priests to parishes without any real obligation to get input or feedback from the parishioners those priests serve.

Like Roberts' and Kennedy's smiles last night, the majority opinion in Citizens United presents a scrim of sweet reasonableness, but does little to disguise what lies beneath: a judicial haughtiness, bordering on contempt, toward the so-called political branches of government, a willful naïveté about the actual workings of democracy, and a rigid adherence to an ideological agenda.

So far, the show's legacy has been to make him a stern defender of populist entertainment in the face of what he sees as an upsurge in "haughtiness" – a very Florence calling, that.

He had horn-rimmed glasses, Mick Jagger lips, and a priggish haughtiness of manner.