hauteur

Example Sentences

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“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,” Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024

As a character, Miss Liza Jane combines the hauteur of opera diva Jessye Norman and the sermonizing wisdom of Maya Angelou.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2023

His critics often observed that he might have come much closer to his stated goals had he not expressed and pursued them with such ferocity and impatience, or treated his critics with such hauteur.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

The hauteur of his wife, Guenevere, and the egotism of her lover, Lancelot, were exposed and then exploded in torrents of rapturous balladry that swept away their faults.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023

Some critics have even drawn parallels between McCandless and the Arctic’s most infamous tragic figure, Sir John Franklin, a nineteenth-century British naval officer whose smugness and hauteur contributed to some 140 deaths, including his own.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer