"There is an arrogance of the buyer, often my client, and the seller, a well-known auction house, that exposes them to risks that they would not take with any other asset class".
He was also a man of free-thinking, empathetic rage, and the rage of "Don Giovanni" is more than just a denunciation of a single unhinged predator; it's a jagged-edged slash at the arrogance of the class of nobles — and a vision of women living in a state of subjection and vulnerability, in desperate hope of sincere love as well as of stalwart protection.
The arrogance of their class, the fear that they are going to let the side down.
He certainly didn't mention the old Mirror, preferring to extol the virtues of the post-Cudlipp area, seeing the modern red-tops as "a useful counterweight to the self-importance and arrogance of the ruling class".
The corrosive inheritance of slavery, which began nearly a century earlier than in the United States and lasted until 1888, and Portuguese colonialism aren't the only themes common to the two books; so too are the decadent arrogance of the landowning class and a national obsession with titles of nobility and other social formalities.
He represents the arrogance of the expert class writ large.
The accusation of snobbery can never be shrugged off: writers generally do think they're better than the people they write about -- not out of class arrogance or cultural elitism, but because in order to observe the world it is necessary, at least momentarily, to stand above it.
As in Figaro, the sexual arrogance of the upper-class male is challenged from below, by Masetto and his friends, albeit unsuccessfully.
She has spent nearly three decades teaching, raising two children and apparently becoming a rather more flamboyant version of the domestic paragon her mother had in mind, publishing horticultural texts that — in one scholar's words — use the garden "to ponder the history of slavery, the privilege of wealth and the arrogance of the ruling classes".
