hauteur

Example Sentences

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His matinee-villain hauteur risks ridiculousness — say, when having an underling exploded like Mr. Creosote in “Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” — but he energizes an often stilted production.

From New York Times

Nearly all his paintings are the height of Mannerist distortion and unbalanced elegance, androgynous sensuality, with an astonishingly consistent perfection of hauteur and surface.

From New York Times

Seidel grew up wealthy in St. Louis, the son of a coal industrialist, and he seems to have been born with a Harvard accent and a chilly sense of hauteur.

From New York Times

She emanated and exuded: hurt, warmth, joy, suspicion, fear, hauteur, love — an ocean of love.

From New York Times

With fitting hauteur, he built an imposing mansion overlooking a formal, Classical Revival garden of unbridled opulence.

From Washington Post