In public, he displays the arrogance to which bosses of big software firms are prone, but internally he is considered a team player.
He doesn't display the arrogance of the judges — the slurry distractedness ofPaula Abdul or the fanged exasperation ofSimon Cowell — but aligns himself with the aspiring performers who represent the hopes and dreams of the people watching at home.
Theresa May has been accused of displaying the "arrogance of a Tudor monarch" over her reported intention to deny a parliamentary vote on Brexit before beginning the process of pulling the UK out of the European Union.
He says the ANC "displays the arrogance of power" and that is why the party is proceeding with this bill against all the red light warnings.
Oh, there are bleats and protestations from parent-like people here and there in the comments, but nothing comes close to the absolute conviction displayed in the arrogance of that last comment.
He was satisfied that some of them were so motivated by the genuineness of their individual beliefs and concerns that they were displaying "the kind of arrogance" which they believed put them above the law.
After recovering Leon Washington's fumble on a kickoff at the Jets' 35, Dallas misfired while trying to display the big-play arrogance that only the Patriots seem to have mastered this season.
In the e-mails that went public last week when the scandal broke, the tone of Christie's aides and appointees displays the thuggery and overweening arrogance that were characteristic of Nixon's men when the President was at the height of his popularity — utter contempt for opponents, not the slightest anxiety about getting caught.
The displays document the arrogance of all colonizers, who think they can take land from others, and they show photos of the bones of Zulus in a field after the massacre at Ulundi in 1879.
Mr. Costolo took to Twitter, first with a joke — whether it was funny or disparaging was subsequently debated on Twitter — about Vivek Wadhwa, whom the article quoted as saying Twitter's failure to include women on the board displayed "elite arrogance" and "male chauvinistic thinking".
