The new governor was a man of great dignity, haughty rather than affable, who disliked the ideas of liberty and equality then afloat in the world.
This, says Gibbons, is "the cartoon Godard we are familiar with: the Godard of the grand gesture" and this side of the great director - enigmatic, contrary, haughty - hasn't dulled with age.
The Athenians initially received these ambassadors well, but Alcibiades met with them in secret before they were to speak to the ecclesia (the Athenian Assembly) and told them that the Assembly was haughty and had great ambitions.
She appeared, under his direction, in David Mercer's Belcher's Luck (1966), earning great praise for her portrayal of the haughty, English upper-class Helen Rawston.
The one real failure is a miscast Eddie Marsan, a specialist in sad losers, as Welles's closest associate and equal, the haughty, confident John Houseman, one of the great figures of the 20th-century arts.
Yet it seems surprising that the audience pictured before the spectators should have been so stirred by her simple songs.This great Valeska, whose partner is Ted Howard Jack Egann), is a haughty person, and it takes none other than Mary, the slender, young creature, who is in love with Ted, to humble the prima donna.
She is the product of a semi-aristocratic family – her father, Beverley, is a failed novelist and writer of supernatural short stories on the brink of nervous collapse after serving in the Great War; her mother, Wilfreda, is a distant, rather haughty presence much given to telling people not to make a fuss and get on with things.
"Big deal," Garfield retorted, in a haughty drag-queen lilt.
Haughty dismissal of stupid poor people is a great look, so let's say IN VOGUE?
Paris Voice is a great all-round focus on the city, with a slightly haughtier target audience — here's a great post on where to enjoy November's Beaujolais Nouveau.
