hauteur

Example Sentences

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Endowed with a formidable hauteur, her Jocasta acts graciously, but with an unmistakable note of condescension.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2025

“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

Credit the haute modness to the costume designer Daniel Cruden but her hauteur to the screenwriter Akela Cooper, who has a way with melodrama.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

Sliding, she charged by, talking to some other Charm Bracelet, both of them moving with that lazy, confident hauteur they all had.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides