Sentence examples for supercilious manner from inspiring English sources

But it hasn't stopped him cultivating female company in the traditional, fantastically supercilious manner.

You behaved in a perfectly magnanimous way, and your neighbor reacted in what might at best be called a punctilious, or even supercilious, manner.

David also, like Wall-E, enjoys old movies, and he models his supercilious manner on Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.

Al Gore may have been a better debater than George W. Bush, but the audience was put off by his supercilious manner.

So is Mr. Kerry's sometimes supercilious manner, and his habit of exacerbating a small thing with an answer that is not quite straight.

Cronenberg is usually associated with body horror, but the nearest this film comes to anything of the kind is Keira Knightley's facial contortions playing Sabina Spielrein at the height of her mental turmoil; she is the young Russian neurotic carried kicking and screaming to the Swiss treatment room of CG Jung, played by Michael Fassbender with a clerkly and supercilious manner.

None of these men affected the supercilious high Mandarin manner of, say, George Jean Nathan -- as annoying in its way as hairy-chested populism is in its.

The Limits of Control demonstrates the very worst side of Jim Jarmusch: a supercilious exhibition of mannerism.

"Supercilious" and — really?

Boot supercilious club officials, perhaps?

A rich, supercilious mystery man.