Not necessarily because his haughty, out-of-touch, classist meanderings would be hilariously at odds with Louis Walsh's dim-bulb squawking.
His comments have a grain of truth in them, certainly, but they played to the Times's weak spot – the impression that it can radiate a patrician aloofness, of haughty disregard of the lessons it could learn from competitors.
"The Music Cure" by Shaw, a three-character play, with an entirely different cast, concerns the power of a haughty woman of prodigious talent, (Vivienne Benesch) over a simpering, inept under-secretary of Parliament (Reginald, acted accordingly by David Constabile).
(There's some of this spirit in Rowling's acidic portrait of the haughty youth of Slytherin House, at Hogwarts, Harry Potter's school).
Their prehistoric faces cocked slightly, examining us for a moment before they turned and glided away, the haughtiest of high school girls.
Their profiling of Chicago's Boring Store shows that even the haughtiest of fashonistas have a sense of humour — the store deliberately sells nothing of any utility, specialising in comedic spy gadgets.
Armed with large circular lights and sensors in front, a double grip handle on top and an electronic screen that would intimidate even the haughtiest of plasma monitors, Jeff stoically serves day after day, year after year, saving lives and lifting a burden from fellow hospital workers who, without him, would have to walk those same miles in their own shoes.
Only the haughtiest of elites for these troubled times!
I was not so surprised, because that magazine has a long history of publishing haughty dismissals of dictionaries and other works on language that are informed by modern linguistics.
But could the American people, by November, decide that for all his impressive qualities, Obama tends too much toward the preening self-regard of Bill Clinton, the patronizing elitism of Al Gore and the haughty liberalism of John Kerry?
From Anne Boleyn to Anne of Cleves, Henry proves himself to be a haughty conqueror of women, and quite enamored of his power-at least until he meets his match.
