hauteur

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

The wives show up now and again in “The Woman King,” seated and standing in a cloud of regal hauteur.

From New York Times

With smug hauteur, she said: “You did when I was confirmed.”

From Washington Post