high-and-mighty

Worse, Rep. Ben Toma, the speaker of the state's lower chamber, feigned a high-and-mighty attitude about it.

As the fictional laird of Ardross Castle, Cummings is a heightened version of himself, making daily entrances in an assortment of traffic-stopping bespoke getups, speaking in a high-and-mighty tone meant to remind everyone how powerless they are as he promises banishments and "murr-durr."

“Old Minch will never spend a nickel on an electronic mouser. How am I supposed to get rid of mice? Say, ‘Please, mousies, go away so old Mr. High-and-mighty won’t throw me out in the cold’?”

In taking the high-and-mighty down a peg, Reitman was reintroducing the sort of anti-establishment comedy that had long since vanished from Hollywood films.

And Fauci, whose perpetual television appearances have made him the face of the COVID-19 response — and who is viewed by his critics as a high-and-mighty know-it-all who enjoys his celebrity — seems an obvious person to blame.