He was by turns haughty, authoritative, harsh, and dismissive.
Ahmed Chalabi, a Shiite Muslim from a prominent Baghdad family, is by turns haughty and brooding, princely and strangely preoccupied.
Wei in turn became haughty, and Hong had him slain as well.
Falx's text, illuminated by Toner's commentary, is by turns charming, haughty, and brutal.
But over time the art took a more haughty turn and, in Mr. Kanzaburo's words, lost the meaning of its name, which can mean extraordinary or shocking.
So, for example, the car coat is an offering that I accept with enthusiasm and the varsity jacket is one I reject with a sniff of my nose and a haughty turn of my head.
Most people are quite friendly in their day-to-day lives, Élisa says, but after a couple of whiskey and cokes they can turn into nasty, haughty monsters.
Mr. Fiennes's aggrieved scowl and haughty profile turn out to be serviceable for either side of the equation.
That same year she was also nominated for a Golden Globe, in the Best Supporting Actress for Feature Films category for her turn as Meryl Streep's haughty and snide first assistant in The Devil Wears Prada, which also played up the British-superiority stereotype.
There is a legend that the tree looked so haughty, God turned it the wrong way up.
Michael Stern, who runs the Web site www.roadfood.com, also notes that "nobody is treated specially," turned away by a haughty maître d' or seated "in Siberia".
