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

Her hauteur immediately catches the eye, and as she rides the crawling Ricardo Xavier while eating a banana, she looks like she belongs in that regal position.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022

Nathan had told her, some months earlier, in a voice filled with hauteur, that he did not read any fiction published after 1930.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie