Make them feel good about themselves but not so much that they turn arrogant and have a big ego.
The arrogant kids turn into arrogant adults; the snobby kids will still snub you; and the ones that would invite you over to their lunch table will invite you over to their new home in central Florida just because they are nice like that.
Denny Dillon is the crazed but resigned stage manager; she is also an actress "only during periods of extreme necessity". To bring in mandated funk and to embody Zorah's "multicultural initiative," Ramon Moses, the token black actor of the Soapbox Playhouse ensemble, is by turns arrogant, bewildered, exasperated and myopic -- and hilarious at every turn.
When Mr. Fuentes stops trying to italicize his hero's villainy and instead focuses on the narrative of his story, we're able to stop trying to figure out just how historically accurate his Comandante might be, and enjoy his creation as a compelling fictional personage — by turns arrogant, funny, pompous, lewd, self-absorbed and self-deluding.
Some stars are nice enough folks until fame comes along and turns them arrogant and boorish, but Gleason, in this portrait, was arrogant and boorish all along.
It is also the section that turns "The Arrogant Years" into a paragon of memoir writing, a story about the complex swirl of people and events and forces out of which individual lives are made — some, like Ms. Lagnado's, more painfully, but also more fully, than others.
We've turned them into arrogant, attention seeking, preening morons who think the world owes them a drink.
He added: "Often, his arrogant attitude turned people off.
But the regime was too arrogant and turned violent against peaceful people.
