(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.
(1) Pakistan's recently elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, centre, will be taking on the country's overweening military not just Pervez Musharraf.
(2) Most are decades old – the overweening army, the confused place of Islam, the covert support for jihad, deep-rooted corruption, the poisoned bond with America.
(3) "No fundamental rights are worth the paper they are written upon unless they can be enforced, especially against overweening and corruptive authorities.
(4) This period is often evoked in the films in which he played an overweening ham in fifth-rate shows.
(5) The overweening Edinburgh Comedy Festival brand is officially defunct now, and this proliferation of venues, far beyond the so-called Big Four, is a merry jig on its grave.
(6) No stranger to accusations of overweening political influence or questionable tax affairs, the media mogul waded into the scandal over Google’s UK tax affairs by accusing the US tech giant of both.
(7) The Treasury has also attacked subsidies for renewable energy, which energy experts and green campaigners maintain would provide a lower-cost alternative to the overweening dependence on fossil fuel.
(8) The relationship between the museum and Manifesta has been difficult, not least because of its overweening internal bureaucracy.
(9) When a group of anti-war activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, on 8 March 1971 they hoped that they would be hitting the bureau’s overweening director, J Edgar Hoover, where it hurt most.
(10) We tend to think that were he alive now he would be excoriating those things we think of as Orwellian – CCTV, the communications data bill (AKA snooping bill) that would force email providers to keep records of who messages whom and when, all the choke-holds an overweening state puts on our collective throat.
(11) He is a Jew with no religion who has questioned the legitimacy of the state of Israel; a naturalised American citizen who is a consistent critic of overweening US power; a person of the left who subscribes to no leftist ideology.
(12) We're looking at a situation far worse than the simple avoidance of basic rights such as pensions and paid holiday; it's a system in which poverty is actively enforced by overweening employers whose convenience comes at the price of their employees' dignity.
(13) A treason trial would mark the first time in Pakistan's history that a military ruler has been held accountable, and the decision was cheered by many who believe the country's overweening army needs to accept the primacy of elected politicians.
(14) They range from patriotic rhetoric, appeals to national sentiment and identity, claims of moral superiority, fear of the other, and the delegitimisation and dehumanisation of the “enemy” to real-time, mass-media communications, mass surveillance, and the overweening power, reach and legal force of a modern-day government.
(15) Click image for graphic Illustration: Paul Scruton and Finbarr Sheehy for the Guardian "Smoke and mirrors will not protect media plurality in the UK from the overweening influence of News Corporation," said a spokesman for an alliance of media groups including BT and the publishers of the Daily Mail and the Guardian.
(16) In the end, only business could furnish Johnson with the opportunity to build the overweening monuments his ego craved.
(17) All the essential elements are there: overweening ambition, a poisoning, a sink of corruption, treachery and blackmail.
(18) "Smoke and mirrors will not protect media plurality in the UK from the overweening influence of News Corporation," he said.
(19) We're all afraid of the gushing, overweening child inside us.
(20) The cathedral echoed with laughter, music, dance – and some sharp rebukes to overweening power: a fitting way to celebrate the 80th birthday of South Africa's spiritual conscience, archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu .