patrician

Example Sentences

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She holds a patrician bearing that comes naturally to Pfeiffer and a kind of full-bodied humanity that makes the actor an ageless romantic lead.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

For many Americans, the nationally televised hearing was the first close look at the patrician, grey-haired former FBI director.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

For decades she was dismissed as a paintbrush-wielding patrician unconnected to the make-it-new spirit of modern art.

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

Randall was patrician, a small, genteel, cricket-loving dandy who nonetheless ran his unit with Napoleonic authority.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee