Sentence examples for special arrogance from inspiring English sources

It takes a special arrogance for people who have never sat in a foodbank or been near a job centre to proclaim that these cases are unrealistic.

Wahlberg desperately wants us to believe that he's outgrown the egregious behavior of his youth, but it takes a special kind of arrogance for him to think he deserves a clean slate.

This mind-boggling comparison, so openly made on so public an occasion, exposed the basic architecture of this special form of arrogance, in the literal sense of the word.

I once said to him that every religious order had its own special defect - Jesuit arrogance, for example.

A wealth of studies show that depending on people this way helps you feel special while keeping your arrogance in check.

The problem with McChrystal is that the arrogance of his special forces team that formed his headquarters couldn't hide that they just weren't delivering enough on their new counterinsurgency strategy which was to bring the fighting to an end within a couple of years.

That last comment, said with a smile, tells you less about sporting jingoism - or perceived English arrogance - than the special nature of this particular fixture, in this particular year.

"This case boils down to greed, ego and arrogance," said Joseph R. Lewis, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I. investigation.

Goldner said the ACL's call to suspend discrimination law for the plebiscite showed its arrogance because it wanted "special privileges".

More than a few Broadway bloggers compared Ms. Taymor to Arachne and noted that in the Playbill, the character is described as born from hubris — "a special word for the sort of arrogance that makes you forget your own humanity".

Within two months, however, he had grafted a layer of earnestness over any arrogance for his ninth debate, a special edition of CNN's "Larry King Live".