Sentence examples for underlying arrogance from inspiring English sources
"underlying arrogance" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to describe a person or situation where someone's arrogant attitude is not immediately obvious but still present. For example, "Although he was polite on the surface, I could sense an underlying arrogance in his manner."
In "Bellicose and Thuggish," Mr. Liu offers a disturbing analysis of the imperial and Maoist roots of today's ultranationalism, sprung from China's "underlying arrogance and self-centeredness," which, faced with Western technological superiority, is trapped "in a vicious cycle between self-abasement and self-aggrandizement".
Instead, many Athenians detected an underlying arrogance in Socratic irony.
Their mantra is now built around the Iron Dome show with its underlying arrogance: See how clever we are!
Her relaxed attitude continued at the Olympics, where she said that although there may be "some underlying arrogance", she was not consciously trying to send a message to her rivals.
As Miranda K. Hassett recounted in a doctoral dissertation on the controversy: "Spong's remarks and the resultant publicity provided an unparalleled opportunity for Northern conservatives to denounce American liberalism by asserting its underlying arrogance and racism, and to distance themselves from such sentiments and affirm their own commitment to solidarity with African Christians".
If the Bush administration insists on hiding its own faulty decision making behind the intelligence community's shortcomings, we can expect that the arrogance underlying our current foreign policy will continue.
The arrogance underlying the entire concept of a "bioeconomy" is phenomenal.
Given the conviction and borderline arrogance underlying his his comments on dance music (he also told me he thinks he "took over what Pete Tong was doing" in terms of breaking artists at BBC Radio with his weekly show "Diplo & Friends") and major labels, I asked Diplo when he became confident in his own taste.
(Zell and the New Wave had a term for clinging to the principles underlying everything we did: "journalistic arrogance").
Underlying this apparently self-effacing comment is cultural arrogance, for she implies not only that she has cornered the market on this subject matter but that being able to make films is a question of personal choice.
