For many it proves what they always suspected: that despite protestations to the contrary the country is still run by a smallish clan of well-connected Parisians, moving arrogantly between ministries, boardrooms, and the salons of the very rich and famous.
Or that we act arrogantly in Japan?
Never act arrogantly and pretend to be a Know-It-All when dealing with people.
And yet we hear that BP is arrogantly moving ahead.
"Although the Senate is not in recess, President Obama, in an unprecedented move, has arrogantly circumvented the American people," he said in a statement.
It was a case of an outside group of civilian neoconservatives moving into the Pentagon and arrogantly taking over the military.
When I failed it was disaster -- moving just as decisively, some would say arrogantly.
When Tommy, who wants a high profile match against a champion, arrogantly decides that Rocky is not moving him up quickly enough, an impatient Tommy turns his back on Rocky and hires Duke as his new manager.
Because Obama's supporters have responded with such passion to his claim that he can move politics to a new place (real passion, not 'cult' following, as some have arrogantly suggested), any viable evidence that Obama is a normal politician will inevitably erode some of his support.
But the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, denounced the move, saying that Mr. Obama had "arrogantly circumvented the American people" and endangered "the Congress's role in providing a check on the excesses of the executive branch".
