haughtiest

The tale of Orpheus, whose song softens the hearts of the haughtiest deities, morphed into the spectacle of the famously demanding La Scala patrons, sitting in judgment on operatic superstars.

The Yankees, after all, are the haughtiest of baseball franchises, with a dignified image to maintain.

He wasn’t part of any movement except that which carried him into Los Angeles’s haughtiest society.

Even the haughtiest firms must dance to the piper’s tune.

While it would be easy to mock some of Tesson's haughtiest moments as typical Parisian high-mindedness, the fact he's so unabashed about his soul-searching is what sets the book apart from the typical 21st-century memoir.