As the diminutive Fox, who's towered over by both Redgrave and Thurman, plays him, Major Wilshaw is a major loser, a self-absorbed, supercilious twit whose stiff upper lip quivers at the first sign of rejection.
Conversely, Arnold felt that the acting of the main cast (Shatner in particular) was poor; "Shatner portrays Kirk as such a supercilious old twit that one rather wishes he'd been left behind that desk", he wrote.
Early on, a supercilious critic from Esquire twitted her as "the little housewife who is writing about restaurants now".
The first novel in the series, "A Clubbable Woman," published in 1970, established the prickly relationship between the blunt and earthy Superintendent Dalziel and his urbane and erudite young colleague, Sergeant Pascoe, who has had to live down his reputation as "a jumped-up, supercilious, intellectual twit".
Mrs. Sherbet shot me a supercilious look.
"He wore a supercilious look, scrutinizing us, and then looking down and taking notes," she recalled.
The Limits of Control demonstrates the very worst side of Jim Jarmusch: a supercilious exhibition of mannerism.
Julie Dingman is a voluptuous and vivacious Maria, and Jason Cicci a supercilious Malvolio.
Woolf is given short shrift in the book, with Mountstuart dismissing her as a supercilious shrew.
She said that she would like to live with Mr. Mountford, a supercilious bachelor who barely tolerated the child.
They smiled (though Victoria Beckham, Posh Spice, often stayed in character with a supercilious glare).
