haughty

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Ruth would be an archetypal “cool” grandma were it not for her haughty bite and startling directness.

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Despite the extremes often associated with the fashion industry, in Finley’s narrative, there’s very little haughty self-regard or hyperbole on display.

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The back seat is tight, in the haughty style of luxury GTs: A passenger ought to feel grateful to get a ride.

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But it also had the haughtier, more conceptual imprimatur of Post-Minimalism, arguably the last avant-garde art movement of classic modernism.

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Parked on Yoshio Taniguchi’s marble porch, protected by cables, each of these five outdoor cars takes on the haughty authority of modern sculpture.

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