Sentence examples for haughtiness of from inspiring English sources

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

Some, like the American model Maggie Rizer, displayed the hoof-stamping haughtiness of a trick pony.

They might be further put off by the haughtiness of Obama's claim to the mantle of hope.

She also talks to her floral bedspread and her TV remote ("Oh the haughtiness of a handheld device!").

The ad, possibly the most positive negative commercial in the race, effectively addresses the carpetbagger issue and the perceived haughtiness of Mrs. Clinton.

As the reality sinks in that her husband, B. F. Pinkerton, has abandoned her, it is painful to watch the strained haughtiness of Ms. Villarroel's Butterfly slowly disintegrate.

As the ancient historian Cassius Dio writes: Sejanus was so great a person by reason both of his excessive haughtiness and of his vast power, that, to put it briefly, he himself seemed to be the emperor and Tiberius a kind of island potentate, inasmuch as the latter spent his time on the island of Capreae.

But he didn't have the haughtiness or intolerance of a lot of people, and of course he's a wonderful writer".

Her critics often attributed her flushes of haughtiness and her expensive tastes to a sense of entitlement, as Zulfikar Bhutto's daughter and as the pre-eminent member of a wealthy land-owning family from the cotton-growing southern province of Sindh.

And David Sabin gives the eldest brother, Ben, the haughtiness and élan of a large man who is confident of what he wants and can get.

Thanks to the global inequalities of wealth, the fruits of a working-class life in England are converted into the retirement of the privileged; the natural process of acculturation is understood as a sign of haughtiness; the desire to see improvement in the place they have returned to is taken as an implicit slight on the attitudes that have prevailed while they were away.