(n.) Haughty manner or spirit; haughtiness; pride; arrogance.
Example Sentences:
(1) This hauteur helped her navigate the gay story: she was simply too good for that, and she was powerful enough in her younger years to be able to threaten retribution.
(2) At his worst, he could combine imperial hauteur with extraordinarily petty spite, relishing the destruction of irritating but unthreatening critics.
(3) It has a lot to do with George Sanders ’s magnificent purring hauteur in portraying him – he bagged a best supporting Oscar in 1951 – but his appeal also lies in the relative rarity of the character’s profession on screen: theatre critic.
(4) Rather they have a chilly neo-classical hauteur that speaks of sublime ambition.
(5) And you know which group is having more fun.” Dancing enthusiastically amid hauteur has become a Swift trademark; specifically, letting loose at awards ceremonies while everyone else remains seated and stiff.
(6) Plater's agent for many years was the terrifying Peggy Ramsay, whom he memorialised in his Hampstead theatre play, Peggy for You (1999), with Maureen Lipman giving one of her greatest performances, ruling the roost in her St Martin's Lane eyrie with the eccentric hauteur of a mad Russian empress.
(7) From "the ritual of the hunt; the pomp of assizes (and all the theatrical power of the law courts); the segregated pews, the late entries and early departures at church" to the splendour of their wealth and hauteur of bearing and expression – all was a performance calculated to overawe the vulgar and extract deference.
(8) She matched the social hauteur of the Tory grandees with her sense of moral superiority.
(9) Though she looked rather grand, she did not use hauteur; there was a disarming candour and even humility in the way she talked about herself.
(10) We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur.
(11) The role brought out the regal hauteur in O'Toole, his highly strung quality, his ability to show the fear and rage of an alpha-male in retreat.
(12) At the time, France's President François Mitterrand led the rebellion and, sphinx-like, treated the like of Valenti with hauteur.
(13) There is also a cost in contamination by the ethos of swaggering hauteur; the attitude that sees humility as an evolutionary cul-de-sac.
(14) The Tories have long enjoyed the suppression of a Bullingdon Club photograph in which its senior politicians were captured in attitudes of telling, yet perfectly legal hauteur.