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Sentence Examples She looked haughty and stuck-up, her face disdainful as she looked down at me. They became haughty and arrogant, and began to love the art of subterfuge and deception, as well as politics and law. He walks with a quick sure gait and the self-confidence of a haughty personage. Guys showing off their bulging biceps, big sideburns and carrying a haughty look are out. He was haughty, erratic, self-obsessed and his violin-playing was atrocious. Scientists will have to step out of their laboratories and humanists will have to give up their haughty disdain for modernity. Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious. They grew haughty in their scorn, vain of their beauty, proud of their long life. Her haughty expression turned into stone at the mentioning of her father's advisor's name. The report makes it clear that despite the haughty posturing of national security heavyweights, we do not have adults watching the store. A haughty looking man thrust a plate full of beef stroganoff and rice at her before she trotted off after Alex and sat down. There's a certain subset of opera fans who dismiss Rossini comic operas with a haughty wave. Ministers should bring to heel their overmighty subjects in Historic Scotland and end this haughty reign of feudalism. Her svelte figure and air of haughty independence, which so obviously masked some tragic loneliness, suggested she'd never been a mother. To brand it as arbitrary is a haughty act of intellectual hubris, thin in substance and contemptuous of our ancestors. I guess the characters of the governess, the seemingly haughty and icy employer and the mad woman added to that impression. Even many who sympathize with his concerns find his combative style haughty and unforgiving. Dunmore was certainly a haughty, irascible man, who made enemies easily and often. Now's the time when sports observers everywhere adopt a standard pose of indignation, a haughty pooh-poohing of the opinions of the masses. Christine's acceptance by a haughty lady gallerist on the basis of a goofy videotape monologue seems a bit far-fetched. Show More Sentences The men talk about him resentfully, sick of his haughty attitude and pretension. Barcelona is delightfully brash where Paris is delectably haughty, but Madrid? It's easy, even a mild pleasure, to look dimly upon the essay's patrician airs and haughty notions. Certainly the cast are up to the haughty elocution and aristocratic manner demanded by their roles. His face was cold and disdainful, and his back was straight with haughty pride. As a further point to be noted by some haughty officials, in Greece it is very much frowned upon for the local girls to so disrobe on the beach. Her haughty tone affected the third voice, giving him the impression that she was annoyed. Gone was the haughty princess, and in her place stood a fragile girl wilting at his harsh words. I have not slept in a solid bed for three weeks, you haughty wench, and I'll not have your condescending airs and your reproachful glances! No, this proud and haughty woman had returned to her father's palace, and was complaining there. Her demeanor was proud and haughty, and her stance bespoke power and determination. Whether the black poor live or die seems to merit only haughty disinterest and indifference. In reality, Fawzia was more shy than cold, and she certainly wasn't arrogant or haughty. Malvolio is a haughty major-domo, but where is his festering self-love and manic insecurity? Unlike it's haughty cousin, the hybrid tea rose, which takes endless tending, spraying and deadheading, an antique rose is almost carefree. The sheriff was a big beer-bellied type displaced Texan, and was all haughty for having brought us in. Difficult mountains can seem hostile, haughty and mocking, wanting very much to lure in climbers, to tempt them to painful deaths on jagged rock. People don't see them as lacking in smarts, wit or attractiveness but as haughty and detached. And, if you imagined Hollywood stars to be haughty, snobbish creatures, you are way off the mark. I'm probably the haughty snoot that deters peasants from going to the Opera. Show More Sentences Her voice was thick with a Scottish brogue, which normally I would find fascinating, if she hadn't seemed like such a haughty snot. The camera often lingers on Penn's face, vulpine in its haughty, unspoken anger and canine in its chronic defeat. He stoops to sign in, then turns to the friend with an expression of haughty disdain. He would be stuck up, haughty and stubborn most likely, but she knew that he was in her immediate future. Portia sat at the row behind them, filing her nails and looking imperiously haughty. Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt. After he finishes something he imagines particularly clever, he ends up looking smug and haughty. She looked down at him, a haughty and imperious expression on her little face. There is something residually haughty in its demeanour, something defiantly unvulgar in the pride with which it stands on its regal, multi-spoked wheels. Greta Garbo played tragic lovers, exotic temptresses and steely heroines, anchoring many mediocre melodramas and haughty period pieces like a pro. And not the least haughty or intimidating or acerbic, but helpful, constructive, and conscientious. But haughty talk may not dissuade Italians from following their former leader. But these are not times when we need to be uplifted and showered with haughty rhetoric. They have to rebut his lies, and they have to do it without sounding bitter or afraid or superior or haughty. Her carriage was royal, and her bearing haughty and most formal. There seems to be both a haughty reserve that keeps us at a distance during the soliloquies, and an absence of inner mystery to tempt our curiosity in the first place. Usually this happens when they say something in a very haughty tone that doesn't make any sense, as though I should have anticipated their screwball question. While he never diffused an aura of vanity, he held his fine features at a haughty tilt as though regarding himself dispassionately in an invisible looking-glass. The passage's haughty assurance raised a prickle of annoyance in Jeremiah. At the risk of sounding haughty, I would say that the art is mediocre. Show More Sentences We never like a person who is haughty, too proud, or condescending. Athena's haughty gaze affixed him as if he were a naughty schoolboy. What might happen if he allowed himself to leave the safety of haughty solitude and moral superiority, to love other human beings who are beyond his control? The second, Madame Louise, is a haughty, witchlike peddler in a horse-drawn carriage, hawking an alcoholic cure-all. It reviewed a conciliatory letter from William and a haughty one from James. The morning shadow on his chin was almost as navy as his heavy-lidded eyes, his cheekbones exquisitely sculptured in his haughty face. Ties with Richard were further strained after the latter acted in a haughty manner after Acre fell to the crusaders. They were always a haughty family, standoffish in a way, as they've a right to be. Alleyn was unusually tall for the time, and the haughty roles of Tamburlaine, Faustus, and Barabas were probably written especially for him. There are paintings of haughty aristocrats in all their finery and of boisterous booze-ups. The classic modern android was the high-fashion model of the Fifties to Seventies, with her haughty masklike face. The unicorn was chosen because it was seen as a proud and haughty beast which would rather die than be captured, just as Scots would fight to remain sovereign and unconquered. In April 1940, he was temporarily promoted to captain and given command of a company of marines, but he proved an unpopular officer, being haughty and curt with his men. Examples from Classical Literature The haughty smile was yet on his lip when the door opened and the prince entered. For, of all the haughty Lawrence women, she had the name of being the haughtiest. Lucille's haughty and fiery temper could hardly brook this hoity-toity assumption of authority. Besides, Barbara herself also knew how to protect herself against any intrusiveness with haughty sharpness. He had passed her with his haughty, supercilious air, pretending not to recognize her. Joe Mauser avoided the haughty stare of young Balt Haer and addressed himself to the older man. I was born with the most imperious, haughty, tameless spirit, with which ever mortal was gifted. Unlike poor Chatterton, Crabbe had a firm trust in Providence, and was neither so passionate nor so reservedly haughty. These haughty barons who overstride the world, what are they in the day of adversity? He was a man of unblemished character, and was not too haughty to have fun sometimes. We may gather from some expressions of the poet that he was of a rash and haughty and unconciliatory temper. Sir Robert Peel stated his case in a speech which was thought to be haughty and unconciliatory. There is a kind of legend about the haughty, unbending chief, who treated all his followers with the scantest courtesy. Instead of the haughty and insulting tyrant, he assumes the shape of a fond and doating lover. He lived in haughty seclusion, and at the end of life wrote a doating Autobiography. The haughty minister, unintimidated even by the menace of the tongs, ventured to countermand an order which the king had issued. While waiting for autumn to restore to his forehead its superb palmated adornments, he was haughty and seclusive. Mills has chosen the opinion of Robertus Monachus, who states that the message of the calif was haughty and insolent. This, pitched on a flat and haughty level of vocality, was her method of opening the conversation. A charming Marquise dc Largillere with a wasp waist in blue velvet, elegant and haughty. Show More Sentences But when, a few nights later, a second lamb was taken, its haughty owner lost his temper and sent hurriedly for the wolfman. The reply given to these messengers was not less haughty than that which had been sent to the Calif. A haughty spirit seemed to rise in her by the mere process of the elongation. I wanted to talk to you about Beecher and that haughty sister-in-law of his. How was she to comport herself in the society of all these high and haughty dames? The haughty droop of the eyes was focussed now upon the Assistant Commissioner. All the glories and grandeurs of the fourth estate were concentrated in that haughty monosyllable. The haughty manners of the Marquis and of Magdalena had conciliated no one. Though her mien was in general haughty, she flattered Zenobia, and consummately. Bossuet could not veil his haughty countenance, and his language is that of asperity and contemptuousness instead of moderation. To bring it from its haughty, rebellious pedestal, down to cordiality and love. Meanwhile, the proud Verbeena just roweled that lofty, haughty boy to rags. In addition Flinders needlessly aggravated Decaen with his haughty manner and refusal to accept a dinner invitation shortly after his arrest. She was a haughty old dame, but she was browbeaten by her maid. It is true that Siegfried had no love for the haughty Brunhild. The haughty Juno was seated on his left hand and Ceres on his right. He was not above giving the haughty upstart a thuggee's twist. Many complained that he was reserved, silent, satirical, and haughty. By turns they were dolent, forsaken, languorous, and haughty. He was a bronzed and bearded man with blue eyes, and hair shot with gold, haughty but handsome withal. Show More Sentences He turned his big head slowly, and over his shoulder gave a haughty oblique stare to the ponderous marble timepiece with the sly, feeble tick. Kitty, with a haughty air, without making peace with her friend, took the necklace in a little box from the table and went to her mother. He was a man of about sixty, handsomely dressed, haughty in manner, and with a face like a fine mask. The Iliad opens with the former weeping in humiliation over Agamemnon's haughty seizing of Briseis, the woman whom Achilles desired to wed. Thus the chief justice had a foretaste of the mortifications which the exiled New-Englanders afterwards suffered from the haughty Britons. Planchet had with his equals the short speech and the haughty familiarity of the rich shopkeeper who serves everybody and waits for nobody. Notwithstanding her haughty air, she was said to be very good and kind. Even in outward demeanour they showed a stamp of majesty that made the warrior's haughty stride look vulgar, if not absurd. Anne's disapproval of the whole project showed itself in the haughty uplift of her head and the studied politeness of her remarks. The haughty drooping glance struck crushingly the carpet at the Assistant Commissioner's feet. Puritans they were, stern and haughty in their ungodly righteousness. Wilkes' Spirit of the Times is unrelenting in its haughty independence. The General eyed me coldly, greeted me in rather haughty fashion, and dismissed me to pay my respects to his sister. And the helmet hard, all haughty with gold, shall part from its plating. You are both melancholy, both morose and hot-tempered, both haughty and both generous. He had a haughty bearing, a look either steady and impenetrable or insolently piercing and inquisitorial. By the side of the ambassadress was a tall, fashionable, haughty beauty. Though haughty Hate should strike me down, Right, bar approach to me, And grinding Might, with furious frown, Swear endless enmity. Thus flattered and caressed, Zeuxis became proud and haughty. And thus being bravely drest up, and the Sparks of Pride kindled in them, they go with stretched-out Necks and haughty Hearts. Show More Sentences What would Pippa gain, were she in truth great haughty Ottima? Because he's a proud, haughty, consequential, turned-up-nosed peacock. She did not like being reproached, and, retiring huffily into a haughty silence, she sat by listlessly while Philip made the preparations for their departure. These reflections had tamed and brought down to a pitch of sounder judgment a temper, which, under other circumstances, might have waxed haughty, supercilious, and obstinate. And they sped to the tribe of the haughty Cephallenians, the people of patient-souled Odysseus whom in aftertime Calypso the queenly nymph detained for Poseidon. Find more words! 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