| 单词 | hauteur |
| 例句 | Nor did Oppenheimer share the hauteur that other theoretical physicists displayed toward Lawrence and his crew of preoccupied tinkers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There is to their pose an aristocratic formality, an elegant Latin hauteur. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “It is true,” Milo exclaimed with a strong trace of the old hauteur. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Sliding, she charged by, talking to some other Charm Bracelet, both of them moving with that lazy, confident hauteur they all had. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Nathan had told her, some months earlier, in a voice filled with hauteur, that he did not read any fiction published after 1930. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If Mills hits the obvious notes of hauteur with Louis, he’s also physically commanding as he thrusts across the stage in sword exercises. Synetic’s ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ has action and unexpected melodrama 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z 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. Review: A Parade of People, Pulled by Many Forces 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Who is this fascinating character with a cunning glint in her eyes who affects a certain hauteur? Review: ‘Diary of a Chambermaid’ Stars Léa Seydoux as an Abused Maid 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Played with amusingly grotesque hauteur by Ms. Steen, Benedikte, who fantasizes that she and Philip have always been in love, provides the movie’s heartiest laughs. Movie Review: ‘Love Is All You Need,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan 2013-05-02T23:44:26Z Clark’s occasional chilliness and a sometimes Olympian hauteur were offset by his generous and warmhearted wife, Jane. The man who brought humanist values — and ‘Civilisation’ — to a mass market 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z She continues to model, strolling one catwalk with hauteur that edges into contempt, but it’s complicated. Sundance Documentaries Expose Truths, Both Glorious and Bitter 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z Whoever started the rumors about Parisian hauteur got it grossly wrong. 2010-01-12T14:50:00Z While his princely approach to crossover can suggest a certain hauteur — he will indeed, dear skeptic, suffer your ignorance — there’s no doubting his industry or passion. Music Review: Sting?s Songbook at the Met, With Strings Attached 2010-07-14T20:35:00Z His wife, an Amazon played by Michelle Dockery with the blank hauteur of a dominatrix, has a garage mostly staffed by women. ‘The Gentlemen’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys, Sometimes With Guns 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z And leave it to her to do so with a hauteur that belies her giddiness — a holdover, maybe, from her early career as a model, starting in high school. Martha Stewart Welcomes You to Generation Ageless 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z I like her best when she does icy hauteur – and Cookie Lyon, the character she currently plays in E4’s Empire, gives her plenty of material to work with in that department. Crush of the week: Taraji P Henson 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z Mirren demurs, nicely, as she tends to do these days, coasting on Oscar-winning hauteur, her films now one big victory lap. The Hundred-Foot Journey first look review – romance on the menu 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Beyond the red carpet, fancy gowns are also back in favor, but worn subversively without hauteur or grandeur. A Celebration of Dressing Up 2012-05-21T12:30:29Z Ms. Tomei is a talented actress who is especially good at icy hauteur — she deserves better writing. | ?Necessary Roughness?: She Goes From Kitchen to the Locker Room 2011-06-28T22:17:01Z “We are not amused,” Ms. Dench says with faux hauteur, offering the line associated with Victoria. Queen! Bow Down to Tattoo-Flashing Octogenarian Dame Dench 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z She has a great confrontation scene with Alda, simmering with contempt, hauteur and a strange unresolved attraction for her ex. Jane Fonda's 10 best films – ranked! 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Gérard Depardieu is very grand as the Narrator, and Evgeny Nikitin bristles with hauteur as Creon, then tears into the Messenger's music with his trademark electricity. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex; Les Noces 2010-06-10T21:40:00Z She earns it by radiating a hauteur that chills as it amuses; the performance is grand without skirting parody. Cinderella Review: Disney Rekindles Old Magic 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z With her preternatural stillness and sculptured hauteur, Ms. Swinton has always looked ready for her close-up with D. W. Griffith; few contemporary movie actresses can hold you with their gaze as effortlessly as she does. Review: ‘A Bigger Splash,’ With a Speechless Tilda Swinton, Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Only with time does the building shed its chilly concrete hauteur; its soulfulness does a slow reveal. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Shergill, with a curled mustache and crumbling empire, displays sufficient hauteur. | 'Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster': ?Sahib Biwi Aur Gangster,? Directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia ? Review 2011-10-02T21:28:22Z She affected the hauteur of Bette Davis and refused child support. Reflections: Jean Harris’s Cautionary Tale 2013-01-04T21:45:19Z The actor, who brought his plummy hauteur to the revived Khan character in Star Trek Into Darkness, and who co-stars in this week’s 12 Years a Slave, manages to occupy, glamorize and parody Assange. The Fifth Estate: A Hollywood Cartoon of Julian Assange 2013-10-16T17:42:52Z Violet and Mary share an attitude of intractable hauteur. Review: In ‘The Lady in the Van,’ Maggie Smith Homesteads in the Driveway 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z She still strikes those perfect nightclub goddess poses, both sultry and imperial, with the same forbidding, invitational hauteur. John Epperson Returns, in ‘Lypsinka! The Trilogy’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z 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. When ‘A Little Touch of Star Quality’ Is a Little Too Much 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Hudson’s performance, with its brassy and brittle notes, and its counterfeit hauteur, comes perilously close to cartoonish. Review: In ‘Marshall,’ a Legal Pioneer Gives History a Shove 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Throughout her opening variation her dancing looked strained, her manner muted to self-conscious hauteur. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z Maybe that’s what Pixie Geldof, the British socialite and model, had in mind when she went gray for a fashion party in London last month, affecting the icy hauteur of a society swan. Young Trendsetters Streak Their Hair With Gray 2010-04-01T18:37:00Z We can still be provoked by its Victorian modernist hauteur: "All art is quite useless." Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z The classical players have lost that hauteur, because it didn’t work. A Word With: Van Dyke Parks: ‘Smile’ and Other Difficulties 2013-07-22T21:48:53Z Her defensive hauteur leads her fellow students to think she is crazy. Review: Immigrants ‘From Nowhere,’ Anxiously Living Under the Radar 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But this is delivered without a trace of the confrontational hauteur Samantha would bring to it. She and Her New City: Kim Cattrall Does London 2010-04-02T15:08:00Z Mr. Brody, by contrast, takes to his villainous role with old-fashioned Basil Rathbone hauteur, swaggering and twirling while leading with his profile. Review: ‘Dragon Blade’ Features Jackie Chan, Romans and a Lot of Mayhem 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Regal and a little chilly on the outside, Phyllis is an emotional volcano under her poised hauteur. Music Review: Karen Akers at the Oak Room - Review 2011-10-03T21:42:51Z Here’s Sherman strutting down lower Broadway with the hauteur of a society grande dame, in a frothy summer dress made of sheer lace. Bill Cunningham’s Favorite Muse 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z In the trailer for the new film, Blunt evokes a good deal of the hauteur of Mary Poppins that is more evident in the books than in the 1964 Disney classic. Mary Poppins can’t return fast enough: An adult in the room is the best fantasy of 2018 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z But her eventual realization that her daughter is a person—even if it was, sort of, only inspired by seeing herself in Sally’s pouty hauteur—counts as a major breakthrough for our Birdie. Mad Men Recap: You Can’t Stop Cold Like That 2013-06-24T14:13:10Z The painting is a silken assertion of ruling-class hauteur; these young men in their lace and long hair seem born to rule. I depict a riot 2011-08-09T13:28:10Z Her screen persona, in movies like The Fountainhead and Breakfast at Tiffany's, was one of elegance and hauteur. Patricia Neal (1926-2010): A Life of Tragedy and Triumph 2010-08-11T08:40:00Z 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. This Dark Prince of American Poetry Writes With Glittering Malice 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z She emanated and exuded: hurt, warmth, joy, suspicion, fear, hauteur, love — an ocean of love. Cicely Tyson Kept It Together So We Didn’t Fall Apart 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Always a commanding actor, Arestrup takes naturally to being a powerful general, a third-generation professional soldier and an individual of formidable hauteur. Paris' fate is at stake in the flawless, WWII-set 'Diplomacy' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The actor, who brought his upper-class hauteur to TV’s Sherlock Holmes and as the revived Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness, manages to occupy, glamorize and parody Assange. Julian Assange and The Fifth Estate: Wiki Wacky Who? 2013-09-08T20:27:10Z Her works make us question not just her motives for looking at what the critic Susan Sontag – with typical hauteur – called "people who are pathetic, pitiable, as well as repulsive", but also our own. Diane Arbus: humanist or voyeur? 2011-07-26T10:56:29Z Having attracted a following, Biehn moved on, living and dealing on the main drag in L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in a town house whose hulk and hauteur seemed not accidental echoes of his own. T Magazine: Pasha Fierce 2011-10-10T15:40:42Z In Phyllida Lloyd's 2011 film The Iron Lady, she had become a lonely and confused old dear, whose flashes of grandeur and hauteur at political soirées were the more poignant for being so fleeting. Margaret Thatcher: the Iron Lady of British film 2013-04-09T07:00:06Z Ms. Gong’s hauteur and great blank beauty — perfect for scheming queens and tragic concubines — don’t generate much sympathy, and Yi-Long ends up seeming cold and more than a little pathetic. | 'What Women Want': A Faithful but Strained Adaptation 2011-02-05T00:35:12Z Mysterious and detached, she comports herself with a certain hauteur and lets it be known that she is only biding her time at a place she doesn’t want to be. | 'Cracks': At Desolate Girls? School, Diving Teacher Rules Roost 2011-03-17T22:29:06Z Elektra is queenly in her regal carriage, her leonine majesty, her cruel hauteur, and her every autocratic utterance. “Pose,” Reviewed: In Ryan Murphy’s Latest Musical Melodrama, Elektra Abundance Steals the Show 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z She played the man-hating princess with steely hauteur, and she looked great, especially in her Klimt-ish gown for the closing scene. 'Turandot': an impressive and moving triumph 2012-08-06T17:38:04Z 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. Review: The Math of ‘Foundation’ Doesn’t Add Up 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z She is the Sophia Loren of our age, a Hollywood star of hyperreal beauty, statuesque presence and queenly hauteur. Angelina Jolie: Hollywood won't be the same without her 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z In carefully selected excerpts from interviews and conversations conducted during all phases of his career, he exudes a patrician hauteur fed by a reservoir of chilly rage. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z With cinematic hauteur, Waldman then pans “400 miles north,” to a boy growing up at roughly the same time who was also fascinated by robots. A Team of Engineers Invented a Brick-Laying Robot. This Is Their Story. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Fernandez is a true opera singer, from Philadelphia, who effervesces with wonder and benign hauteur. It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Prince George, to avoid projecting hauteur, would be best served by dressing in American style, Mr. Doonan said. Books Of Style: Simon Doonan: In the Mind of a Ringmaster 2013-09-06T22:49:41Z Nearly all his paintings are the height of Mannerist distortion and unbalanced elegance, androgynous sensuality, with an astonishingly consistent perfection of hauteur and surface. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z But his interaction with the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth Claire Walker as the Siren overcame a minefield of technical hazards with no loss to his character’s helpless confusion or her over-the-top hauteur. L.A. Ballet's ambitious all-Balanchine program leads to missteps, but also one big triumph 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The mother, played by Kristin Scott Thomas with long bleached blond hair and her usual hauteur, has come to Bangkok because the eldest rancid fruit of said womb, Billy, has been murdered. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: Miike’s Honest Cop, Winding Refn’s Wallpaper 2013-05-22T15:14:03Z Shorn of the puffed-up hauteur he displayed the day before, Ibsen has had a change of heart. Review: Doug Wright’s ‘Posterity,’ a Portrait of Ibsen 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a performance that expresses the familiar vampire world-weariness, the hauteur and exhaustion, but also offers the kind of self-knowing humor you expect when a Viennese vampire and a shrink walk into a movie. Review: In ‘Therapy for a Vampire,’ the Count Really Wants to Change 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z He is gently unassuming and comfortably portly, and quite lacking in the hauteur one may expect from the head of such a distinctive brand. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Yet they trail her, part of a mythology she wears with hauteur, draping it about her like an ermine cape. Marianne Faithfull, as Years Go By 2011-12-23T21:47:23Z It's not diva hauteur or cool insouciance – she's as self-deprecating a wildly acclaimed author of a hit album as you could wish to meet. Laura Mvula: meet the world's least likely pop star 2013-05-04T08:00:00Z The intense Russian and democratic American sides of her nature were nicely accented by her inherited French hauteur, which included a certain amount of French contempt for all Europeans not born French. Becoming Francine du Plessix Gray 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z With fitting hauteur, he built an imposing mansion overlooking a formal, Classical Revival garden of unbridled opulence. Biden put Wilmington on the map — but for garden lovers, it was already a destination 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Freelon doesn’t sound much like Horne except in passing phrases that convey the attitude of regal hauteur that was a Horne trademark. Music Review: A Singer?s Tribute to Lena Horne, Her Regal and Daunting Role Model 2011-05-12T21:12:39Z Critics of the plan did frown and tut-tut, firm in the conviction that moral condemnation and self-righteous hauteur were more effective responses to the ravages of addiction than providing clean needles. Brian Weil's work focuses on a 'World' few ever see 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z But even in that role, Ms. Williams toned down the nastiness to portray the character with a detached hauteur. Review: Vanessa Williams, Strong and Steady, Without Taking Chances 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Exuding the bored hauteur of wicked Uncle Scar in “The Lion King,” Everett responded in flat monosyllables, until, traumatized, I had to give up. T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z Ms. Holmes speaks in a debutante whisper and wears a pillbox hat with panache, but she doesn’t capture the steely hauteur beneath Jackie’s good looks. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z Even when portraying the needy, nearly shambolic Béatrice in “The Midwife,” Ms. Deneuve is capable of vibrating with an elegance that implies both hauteur and froideur. Review: ‘The Midwife’ Is Unflappable, Until the Past Blows In 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z An album of the year – and the year is … "An alluringly precise recapturing of the winning chill of early-80s electro-pop, with some light hauteur keeping the mood severe, never optimistic" – New York Times. New band of the day ? No 1,086: Class Actress 2011-08-17T16:54:00Z On “Set Yourself on Fire,” a song by Jarvis Cocker included on some editions of “5:55,” she projects steely hauteur against brooding bass and fuzztone guitar. New Music: New Music From Webbie and Charlotte Gainsbourg 2011-12-26T21:46:38Z Early Greek art portrays noble faces fixed in calm hauteur. Face value: expressions bring 4D ultrasound scans to life 2013-06-06T14:37:56Z A return to her asymmetrical black hair mode, which she still carries off with great hauteur and charisma, although it is a pity this action movie doesn’t do her justice. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Maa’yan Goldman’s costumes adorn monochromatic unitards — already a company signature — with touches like pink collars and platform heels that highlight a fashion-model hauteur in the choreography. Dance Review: L-E-V Performs at Jacob’s Pillow 2013-07-26T19:49:48Z Or the Betty inside her, who wields a hauteur to mask deep suspicions of helplessness, who considers being called frigid an insult but ice queen a nobility title? Mad Men Watch: Don Draper’s Baby 2013-06-17T14:54:15Z When, post-Ailey, I returned to the relative oasis of the Chinatown Y, it was with some of the hauteur of the Broadway veteran who has been asked to perform Chekhov monologues at a Cracker Barrel. Zoom In, Zumba Away 2012-01-11T23:45:24Z The wives show up now and again in “The Woman King,” seated and standing in a cloud of regal hauteur. ‘The Woman King’ Review: She Slays 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Oedipus was played by Ian Bostridge, who aspirated his coloratura at times; but Stravinskyan stylisation suits him rather well, and he charted the progression from hauteur to debasement with passion and commitment. BBCPhil/Gruber – review 2013-03-14T17:49:19Z “Feel this fabric — it’s so heavy,” she said, gazing back over her shoulder with the glassy hauteur of a society swan. The Star of ‘A Fantastic Woman’ Picks a Few Come-Hither Dresses 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z She’s playing the loneliness and the heartbreak and the rage, and the emotional lunacy, mental breakdown and hauteur. ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ Review: A Tangled Web of Human Impulse 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z We expect Poussins to inhabit a zone of studious murmuring and fusty hauteur. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z “Don’t sweetheart me,” snaps back Maggie Smith with the chilly eyed hauteur she has brought to a thousand scenes in Downton Abbey. Got any change? Why cinema struggles with homelessness 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z His warm, earthy authenticity has a salutary effect on Don, whose hauteur masks a deep loneliness. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z If as a young man he possessed what Lamster calls an “extravagant hauteur,” he was too full of enthusiasm to be merely a cynic. A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z “Oh, we didn’t lose it,” they said, laughing with Northern European hauteur. Personal Journeys: All Aboard the Orient Local 2014-04-23T21:47:59Z Tuesday’s shoppers brushed off the criticisms with the hauteur of fashion critics underwhelmed by a collection. Scene City: Anna Wintour?s Party for an Obama Re-election Campaign 2012-02-08T21:46:18Z Bit by bit, however, she peels away the layers of her character’s self-protective hauteur to reveal a frightened little girl. ‘Miss Julie’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z His drawings, Time wrote, “powerfully portrayed the hunched reticence of schizophrenia, the hauteur of megalomania, the stares of poverty and disease.” José Luis Cuevas, a Dark Master of Mexican Art, Dies at 83 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z That journalist’s eye coincides with a cautious hauteur that reflects her admiration for female adventurers. Suzanne Vega Brings Her Carson McCullers Songs to Café Carlyle 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z With Bette Davis hauteur, he quotes from the film: “Nice speech, Eve. But I wouldn’t worry too much about your heart. You can always put that award where your heart ought to be.” Tony Kushner’s civil war The teenage circus girls receive the customary shower of oranges from an appreciative audience; the similarly young ballerina demonstrates fifth position with something of the hauteur of Degas’s little dancer. Art Review: Renoir?s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection 2012-02-09T13:00:00Z And although “Washington” never takes an overly psychoanalytical tack, it does find one big reason for its subject’s lifelong aloofness and hauteur: his mother, Mary Ball Washington. Books of The Times: Dusting Off an Elusive President?s Dull Image 2010-09-27T23:42:00Z Ms. Weisz, though an intriguing chameleon, lacks a femme fatale’s merciless hauteur. Review: Rachel Weisz Toys With Identity in ‘Complete Unknown’ 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Where his predecessor, Judith Jamison, played sass off a queenly hauteur, Mr. Battle is all down-home. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center - Review 2011-12-01T22:40:24Z But she lacks a femme fatale’s merciless hauteur and cannot salvage a slight story. Movie Listings for Sept. 2-8 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z When I ask about the current state of their relationship and whether the two ever talk, Ridley adopts an airy hauteur, reminiscent of that Mariah Carey meme in which she claims no knowledge of J-Lo. Guerrilla's John Ridley: 'As Three Kings went through the system, George Clooney was unblackified' 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z With the intimidating hauteur of a snobbish wine steward, he steered viewers to the proper assessment of contestants. Simon Cowell celebrated on `American Idol' finale 2010-05-27T08:56:00Z 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. Column: A farewell to James G. Watt, environmental vandal and proto-Trumpian 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z With smug hauteur, she said: “You did when I was confirmed.” Opinion | When the pronoun police come for eighth-graders 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Against this hauteur, the left clamors for the right to vote and the right for votes to be counted. From our archives: Todd Gitlin on "Back to the civil rights barricades" after the Bush-Gore election 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z For her part, Grace, whom Ross endows with a layered mix of hauteur and decency, surveys Maggie with fascination as well as impatience. Review: 'The High Note,' a soothing music-biz fairy tale, falls short of perfect pitch 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z He’s intriguing as he exposes a vulnerability that lies submerged beneath Anthony’s supercilious hauteur. ‘The Souvenir’ review: Young actor shines as love story slowly unfolds 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Professor Bosko breaks the news to her with her characteristic gentle hauteur. Review: ‘Niceties’ at the Geffen turns a college history paper into revolutionary war 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z “Although I remain so French, I’m at least slightly tainted by your country,” he said, poking fun at the attitude of hauteur often adopted by his countrymen. Washington says adieu to French Ambassador Gérard Araud 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z That grumpiness and impatience translate on the screen to some spectacular lines for Thompson, a woman of deep intelligence and devastating hauteur, lines that were a special treat for Kaling to write. Sundance 2019: Mindy Kaling mines her TV past for big-screen breakout ‘Late Night’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z There has always been an echo of the Jane Austen hero about this, about smouldering Mr Murray’s need to balance a tension around his own desire for victory, and Wimbledon’s own needy emotional hauteur. Andy Murray: from gangly kid to genuine sporting grown-up 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z With a chilly hauteur that still frosts Lori, Davis said, “I do not stand in line, and I do not deal with flunkies.” Perspective | Remembering Evelyn Y. Davis, the ‘Queen of the Corporate Jungle’ 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Divas ranging from Leontyne Price to Aretha Franklin to FKA Twigs have a similar hauteur, and why shouldn’t entitlement be part of their act? Anika Noni Rose’s Star-Making Self-Possession in “Carmen Jones” 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z He’s finally released his debut album Wet Will Always Dry: masterful minimal techno in the Nina Kraviz or Radio Slave mould, where unceasing 4/4 hauteur is brightened with mischievous licks. 50 great tracks for July from Drake, Ebony Bones, Low and more 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z With snowy hair and a black velvet jacket, Hamilton wears an impassive look that might be described as hauteur. The historical roots of the US rural-urban divide run deep | Eliza Griswold 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Mr Trump’s followers, conditioned to see Mr Comey as representative of a “deep state” plot against their insurgent leader, will hear his personal contempt for the president as establishment hauteur. James Comey against the president 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Beneath the chilly hauteur of Levy's Elsa lies a world of fear, sadness and confusion. 'Frozen' on Broadway: It's no 'Tempest' (or 'Lion King'), but the musical sings with sisterly appeal 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z These characters are all delicious to watch, but they are united by cartoonish hauteur. Naomi Campbell: ‘People try to use your past to blackmail you. I won’t allow it’ 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Ma’am Camp enjoys inverting expectations: to those expecting grace, it presents hauteur; to those wanting empathy, it delivers distance. ‘Not amused’: Princess Margaret’s misadventures in bohemia 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Although the Beast is an entirely digital creation, based in part on Jean Cocteau’s groundbreaking 1946 silent film, Stevens imbues his hauteur and fanged hostility with pathos and arch humor. Review | Remake of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ convincingly springs to life 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Desperate and greedy for information, Norma over-enunciates, her words taut with sarcasm and hauteur. Dressing Like a Woman in “Sunset Boulevard” 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Possessing a mellifluous baritone and a congenital sneer that could signal aristocratic hauteur, Rickman invested dark, forbidding characters — from “Die Hard” to the “Harry Potter” movies — with alluring complexity and a winking self-awareness. Best of 2016: The year in review 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z “Oh,” she responded to me with unconcealed hauteur. How my loathing of Mother Teresa turned to admiration | Mari Marcel Thekaeka 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z If she happened to round off an evening with a display of her famous hauteur, then it gave them something to write about. ‘Not amused’: Princess Margaret’s misadventures in bohemia 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z The rebellion of the voiceless screams: “Listen, liberal,” check your moral hauteur and accord us worth. The Backlash That Became Brexit 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Bach wears his imperial hauteur like a winter overcoat. A Thud of Retribution Reverberates in Russia 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z Here is a spy who has already laid the ground that a Jane Bond could walk on, as she moves with unimpressed hauteur through secrets and lovers. We’ve been expecting you, Ms Bond: why fiction needs more female spies 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z As Mary Shepherd, the irascible, imperious, often amusingly confounding title character, Smith summons an impressive amount of the Dowager Countess of Grantham’s native hauteur. ‘The Lady in the Van,’ with Maggie Smith as its eccentric title character 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z It is disappointment hiding behind the shield of hauteur, keeping pity at bay. ‘Not amused’: Princess Margaret’s misadventures in bohemia 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z In the course of more than half a century, his quips, aphorisms, insults, and punch lines amounted to a self-portrait, airbrushed so as to highlight his favorite warts: Olympian detachment, patrician hauteur. Gore Vidal’s Delusions of Candor 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z And for all Arthur’s hauteur, his expertise appears to be for sale to the highest bidder. Review: In ‘Priceless’ at Penguin Rep Theater, 3 Men in Search of a Payday 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Wilson’s nemesis, the Republican senator Henry Cabot Lodge, is given a nasty, sneering hauteur by Nick Wyman. Theater Review: First Lady Runs the Country When President Wilson Can’t 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z Scott Thomas gives a highly accomplished performance that veers between mischievous irony and icy hauteur, but without quite convincing us of the Queen's ability to act as a therapeutic counsellor to her disturbed premiers. The Audience play set for post-election rewrite - BBC News 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Dancing enthusiastically amid hauteur has become a Swift trademark; specifically, letting loose at awards ceremonies while everyone else remains seated and stiff. Taylor Swift: ‘Sexy? Not on my radar' 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z We saw none of the snobbish hauteur that you sometimes experience in expensive restaurants, where the management attitude is one of determining whether you are important enough to be allowed into their overpriced underperforming fortress. Seven Management Lessons From The Legendary French Restaurants 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z I prepared to be, if not exactly bored, then at any rate justified in my mild hauteur. Falling in love with medieval armed combat 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Explicitly rescinding the editorial, which Mr. Zhao tried to achieve in the following days, would have amounted to a humiliating reversal for Mr. Deng, a leader whose plain-speaking manner hid a prickly hauteur. Sinosphere Blog: People’s Daily Editorial Fanned Flames of 1989 Protest 2014-04-25T05:54:51Z As for the rules themselves, I read through the App Store review guidelines, bracing myself for Apple's usual hauteur. The app store: good deeds, poor communication 2013-04-22T09:34:07Z And at 25-25 it ensured all to play for and rooted in England's hauteur the possibility, however faint, of defeat. Wales v England – Six Nations live 2013-03-16T16:13:16Z This hauteur helped her navigate the gay story: she was simply too good for that, and she was powerful enough in her younger years to be able to threaten retribution. And the winners at media manipulation are: Jodie Foster and Lance Armstrong 2013-01-14T18:30:12Z In a government top-heavy with posh boys, this "whiff of hauteur" was noxious. Press ponders Plegate and Pollard 2012-12-20T05:39:16Z Jet-lagged and possibly jaded, Chelsea may well adopt the princely hauteur of one accosted by a pauper claiming to have known them before they had made it big. Leeds v Chelsea is an animosity that still simmers after 50 years 2012-12-18T22:02:01Z They were motionless, but not with the rigid panic of wrongdoers caught in the act, it was more with the irritated hauteur of important officials interrupted in the middle of important work. The cats stalking Jersualem's bins 2012-10-17T23:27:20Z Insist!' she repeated with increasing hauteur: 'henceforth, Sir, this apartment is the boundary of your steps, till you have learned to show more respect to the will of a mother!' The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes 2012-04-13T02:00:20.243Z How could she live in the blaze of glory which irradiated her illustrious offspring, and still preserve her simple dignity of manner, so barren of self pride and hauteur! Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town 2012-04-11T02:00:30.517Z The request was granted with freezing hauteur by the sisters, Miss Charlotte adding that she thought it would be more pleasant for all parties if Mr. and Mrs. Orton had their meals served separately. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z "The gentleman who called this morning," he replied, drawing himself up with much hauteur, "is my uncle." Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-04T02:00:58.490Z If it be hauteur against hauteur, pride for pride, I'll bear me like the lion and the unicorn fighting for the crown, both together, in one person. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z "No, I have not," he answered, a slight tinge of hauteur in his manner. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z There was a slight touch of hauteur in her tone, do what she would to hide it. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z "To ask me?" she repeated, with a slight ring of hauteur in her voice. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Carlile’s early career gave evidence of that iron hauteur which characterised him. Life and Character of Richard Carlile 2012-03-14T02:00:25.327Z "Not at the price," Slyne returned, with an indifferent hauteur which he judged likely to be effective with one in the stranger's presumable plight. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z "He has made those circumstances the subject of a grave charge against me," the rector continued, a touch of hauteur in his tone. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Glancing at her face, I saw there, in addition to a heightened color, an expression of mingled constraint and hauteur, quite inconsistent with her usual graceful self-possession and animation. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z She half-rose from her chair, and exclaimed, in the true tone of aristocratic hauteur, “Really, sir, I do not know what right you have to ask me that question.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z "It was not warm, after all," said he to Mirandos; but this was in a lower tone, and he put on an air of hauteur withal that became him wonderfully. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z The widowed governor was gouty, passionate, and had imbibed with his long residence in Spain the hauteur of the Spaniard. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z "I am afraid if you wish to see the rector you will be disappointed," the curate said, with something of hauteur in his voice, assumed to hide his mistrust. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z Here came in her fortitude; and she received their blows with well-feigned, icy, hauteur. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z "I've heard enough," she struck in, interrupting him with something of Sir Robert's hauteur. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Lord Clare grew impatient, and retorted with hauteur: 'You can have naught to do with fixing the date of trial. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z He raised his quizzing glass and looked round the room with an air of surprised hauteur. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z He spoke once more with the hauteur and grand mannerism of the old school, besides bowing very low at each of us separately as he wished us good-night. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z In courtesy the Cid invited the defeated Count Raymond to feast with him, but he refused the invitation with hauteur, saying that his capture by outlaws had taken away his appetite. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z The younger man showed something in his countenance, a sudden hauteur, a little elevation of the chin, a certain sternness, more melodramatic, though less effective, than the simple blank of Mr. Longcluse's glance. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The brother of the Regent of Bandong, a truly chivalrous soul, but imperious and full of aristocratic hauteur in his deportment towards the peasantry, was our companion and guard of honour. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z Upon them he packed other garments in stern, sorrowful hauteur. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z James was deck-steward on that voyage, and Uncle Joseph's attention was first attracted to him by the extreme coldness, not to say hauteur, with which he attended to the wants of seasick lady passengers. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Few men of genius are so constituted as to be able to control altogether a natural hauteur and superiority. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z That gentleman arriving, in obedience to a hasty summons, did indeed at first assert with his usual hauteur that neither he nor any of the household would depart without the commands of their own sovereign. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Mrs. Davis retorted, stepping back with great hauteur. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z Annchen had no suspicion that she had even seen him before; but her brother’s memory was better, though with the scornful hauteur of his character he paid no further heed to Bostock’s presence. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z People had thought her disagreeable and overbearing, and she had held herself aloof, displaying a degree of hauteur that admitted of no friendship. The Automobile Girls at Palm Beach Proving Their Mettle Under Southern Skies 2011-11-26T03:00:16.047Z Her manners were stamped by a refined self-respecting reserve not chilled to the point of hauteur. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z She turned abruptly as she ceased, and swept down the marble walk with the hauteur of an offended queen, and a moment later disappeared within the mansion. The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo 2011-11-15T03:00:18.930Z Suddenly the lady drew herself up with a gesture which was possibly meant to be expressive of a judicious mingling of scorn with hauteur. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z He harkened to the Arab in him and made a bacchanal of color; he remembered his one-time poverty and debased the hauteur of gold to the humility of wood and clay and stone. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z For my part, I always hold it my bounden duty to oblige the ladies, and never on any account to treat them with hauteur, as the French call it. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Towards all the foreign ambassadors the Duke of Wessex was always ensconced behind a barrier of unbendable hauteur and of frigid reserve. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Mollie flushed a vivid crimson at the reluctant suggestion, and drew herself up with involuntary hauteur. The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo 2011-11-15T03:00:18.930Z The latter is very quiet, with an air of scornful hauteur. Pride and Predjudice, a play 2011-09-17T02:00:30.190Z But there was neither hauteur nor suspicion in his manner. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z "You gotta crust," observed the brunette, outdoing her companion in crushing hauteur. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z The hauteur only came to the surface in response to unwelcome familiarity. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z The same hauteur was displayed in the manner of receiving the princes and princesses of the blood, and this "exterior of Queen" followed her into the retreat! Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z The evident pride and hauteur, too, of these 131 Latins, was a surprise to one of a stronger race. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The lines of the face were cameo-like, and its southern beauty held that particular blend of ingeniousness and hauteur that is the result of the selection and inbreeding of generations. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z If one expostulates, You remark With hauteur That you thought you were dealing with a gentleman. Outlook Odes 2011-08-16T02:00:47.257Z At Everingham's tone of rebuke a slight frown had contracted his forehead, and that certain look of hauteur, never wholly absent from his face, at once became more apparent. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z To their surprise Augusta Forbes put on an expression of extreme hauteur; Florence Hart stared icily out of two pale blue eyes. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z He carried himself with the dignity and hauteur of a great leader, and the Ogalala looked upon him with respect. The War Trail 2011-07-30T02:00:15.833Z Temperamentally both were scrappers but Ganguly brought a hauteur to his needling that riled opponents even more because they suspected his air was patronising and contemptuous. How Sourav Ganguly and Nasser Hussain revitalised India and England 2011-07-19T22:01:00Z “And is it thus we meet again, Drayton?” said the general, all the reserve and hauteur of his manner vanishing before the distress of his former soldier. Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls 2011-07-17T02:00:32.837Z "I am ready to follow you, friend captain," he said, with all the hauteur, all the light, easy graciousness so peculiar to himself. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z The two freshmen who had shown such utter hauteur had seats at the same table as their black-eyed friend. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z "It is a matter I do not care to discuss," he said with a freezing hauteur. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z "I suppose it does—with some people," Judith returned with instant hauteur. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z The stern, cold hauteur, the rude, coarse insolence, and the grasping, insatiable cupidity of the latter inevitably aroused every demon in the Indian breast. The History of Peru 2011-06-27T02:01:04.487Z From a seat against the wall, in a corner, she reviewed the other patrons of the smoke-wreathed room with a hauteur of spirit that would have seemed laughable had it been suspected. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z She was gazing at the intruder with belligerence, not hauteur. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z There was, however, one exception to this rule of hauteur towards his serfs; for the manor-lord invariably showed himself kindly disposed towards Volkitch, the great hunter. Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys 2011-06-08T02:00:16.797Z "I wanted the beast out of pain—if that is what you mean," he said with hauteur. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z "Thanks," she said, with an assumption of hauteur. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z I kicked the Smith and the Bo's'n out of the way with all the hauteur that I could express in my manner. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z Lord Houghton, being temperamentally incapable of inspiring affection in inferiors, adopted an attitude of extreme hauteur, offending every class in turn. The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z His decision to maintain a friendship with disgraced U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein was all his own, displaying an unreconstructed hauteur toward the idea that royals, like other public figures, are accountable to the public. TIME Cover Story: The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton 2011-04-29T17:50:00Z "I thought every Westmore was a gentleman," Ann said, quite as Judith might have spoken; there was hauteur in the reproof. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z Some remark Maynard had made, intended to be civil, had been received with a hauteur that stung the young soldier; and from that moment a silent reserve was established. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The explanation is not quite satisfactory to us," rejoined Her Majesty with all the rigid hauteur of which she possessed the stinging secret, "and it will have to be properly and officially amplified to-morrow. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z Edward Maria Wingfield was unpopular as President, and all resented his hauteur and the luxuries which he allowed himself while others had short rations. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z It was with an indescribably cold hauteur, that she pronounced these words. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z Bale stood on the centre-circle an hour before kick-off, soaking in the energy of this prim, erect stadium, which lacks the crazy passion of Camp Nou but intimidates with its hauteur. Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale sum up gap between Real and Spurs 2011-04-05T23:05:10Z A few moments later the timid Maria entered to take the babe to the kitchen, and with an assumed hauteur the lady yielded up her charge and it was carried from the room. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z "Do not worry yourself, my good Eglinton," here interposed M. Bénédict with becoming hauteur. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z "You must excuse my reliance even on such discretion," said Lady Eleanor, with more hauteur than before. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z When large, it produces egotism, pride, hauteur, and self conceit. Christian Phrenology A Guide to Self-Knowledge 2011-04-03T02:00:15.543Z There was a curious hauteur, that was foreign to her accustomed manner, clinging about her, somehow. Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman 2011-04-01T02:00:36.933Z Look at that brow and the hauteur of the compressed lips. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z They got back safely to their ship, but the youth was taken with an illness, during which he repaid their anxious inquiries and attentions more with a courteous hauteur than with gratitude. Claimants to Royalty 2011-03-31T02:00:20.557Z This was Vettel's 11th victory in 63 races and none has been more decisive, delivered with a hauteur which would have impressed the driver he idolised, Michael Schumacher. Vettel eases to crushing victory in season opener in Australia 2011-03-27T20:12:13Z She must have been aware of the touch of hauteur in the tone of her correction, for instantly she changed it. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z A certain aloofness, almost hauteur, about the lines of her mouth, creeping out even in her most careless tones, and plainly manifest in the carriage of her head, was absent. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z Mr. Robinson contended for the supremacy of the Church of England, and her exclusive right to the Clergy Reserves, with the hauteur of a cavalier. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z They have not the hauteur and aloofness of the German Social Democrat, nor the fiery passion for idealistic propaganda of the French; they are more sensible than either. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z He offers to play with Mink, who growls, and receives his advances with such hauteur that he has to be reminded of the humility of his own beginnings, and of the Dogs' Home. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Yes," returned another voice, which had all the laziness and none of the hauteur, "it is a pretty face. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Her face expressed a mixture of querulousness and hauteur, and she spoke in a languid drawl, with strange peevish inflections. A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:28.240Z If so, Ancram," he answered, with some hauteur, "the fault must be yours. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z With the hauteur of absolutism he not only retained political power in the feudal class, but suppressed literature, censored learning, and rigorously superintended religion. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z This lady had never relaxed the coldness and hauteur towards Miranda and myself. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z "I have no wish to hear the servants' gossip about my cousin's movements," Lady Gwendoline said, with supreme hauteur. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z "You?" says Mona, with extreme hauteur and an unpleasant amount of well-feigned astonishment. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z But she did not do so with any of her old hauteur and intimation of the vast distance which separated her from her humbler fellow-creatures. A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Ormsby’s patrimony was large; his family at first were disposed to receive his wife with hauteur—they were among that class of English owls who fancy themselves eagles, especially in their own county. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z There was something extremely prepossessing in his manner when he spoke, and in his smile also, in spite of the hauteur visible in his features when they were at rest. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z "Then I refuse; absolutely and unconditionally I refuse," said Mrs. Arbuthnot, with what can only be described as hauteur. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z The dignified calm with which that personage was wont to receive his officials had stiffened into freezing hauteur. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Whoever had seen her in her cold hauteur--her icy, unapproachable manner, would hardly have recognized her in this bright, slender woman, in her light summer costume, with fresh forest flowers in her hand. The Sign of Flame 2011-01-27T03:00:43.087Z "I would rather be excused," said Georgia, with some of her old hauteur. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z He, the gentleman, was young and remarkably handsome, aristocratic to the last degree, and there was an air of reserve and hauteur about him, conspicuous at the first glance. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z There's something about the effervescent exuberance of a boarding-school crowd that thaws even the icy hauteur of the average saleswoman, and stirs any salesman to spectacular affability. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z I very unwillingly consented to be presented to her, and was justly punished for my consent by the negligent hauteur with which I was received. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z The other members of the hunt passed me with equal hauteur; I thought they took their ill luck very badly. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z But Mr. Richmond Wildair was not easily intimidated, and took all her chilling hauteur coolly enough, quite confident of triumphing in the end. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z Agatha was eminently beautiful, and Laura is a handsome woman, with a great deal of dignity in her air; yet without hauteur of affectation. Mystery and Confidence (Vol. 1 of 3) A Tale 2011-01-15T03:00:39.810Z And there again was the coldness, the hauteur and the superiority, which Jean had resented before their misfortune had awakened the young woman's sympathy. The Ranch Girls in Europe 2011-01-13T03:01:01.483Z I should long ago have relinquished all pretension to it if she had not treated every one else--yourself, Count, perhaps excepted--with the same coldness and hauteur which I have experienced from her. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z "As you will," answered the Prussian colonel with hauteur. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z Really, young lady," said Mrs. Wildair, recovering her calm hauteur, "this is most extraordinary language addressed to me. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z They hesitated, impressed by his hauteur, his fine clothes, the waiting limousine. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z He had borne himself manfully during the fight, and as one worthy of his crusading ancestors, but his hauteur and reserve immediately succeeded to the violence of action. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Altogether he struck me as a particularly gentleman-like and ill-tempered looking old man, and his features wore a character of hauteur that was perfectly insolent. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z Among friends, there was little of the selfishness of which he was accused by those who disliked him, much less the flashes of anger and hauteur that were a studied part of his professional arsenal. Richard Holbrooke, Thirsting for a Role in History 2010-12-19T00:30:24Z He stood straight before her, a smile curling his mustached lip at her regal hauteur. The Actress' Daughter A Novel 2011-01-23T03:00:14.117Z He made his announcement with a certain hauteur. Pakistan betting scandal: An analysis of what Giles Clarke said 2010-09-02T12:48:00Z The Canadian media rapidly dubbed her "Attila the Honey" and her enemies dismissed her as a ruthless social climber, whose every action was shot through with a silken thread of hauteur. Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z Mr. Obama, who led the session with a mixture of companionability, irritation and presidential hauteur, scored political points by chiding Republicans for trying to score political points. The TV Watch: Parties Jousting With Dire Warnings 2010-02-26T02:30:00Z "So pleased," said the Duchess with a smile and an attempt at hauteur, which was hardly successful. Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile She received him with an air of hauteur, though not unkindly. Zula Each menial salaamed, and officials who had surveyed them with hauteur during their first visit now rendered obsequious attention. The Great Mogul The aggressive bearing of the American princess had been replaced by the colder, more serene hauteur of the English Duchess. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode The face of the Munition Magnate grew cold with hauteur. Whispering Wires "She cannot fail to do so," remarked Sir Oswald, with some little hauteur. Love Works Wonders A Novel His presence angered Mr. Linton, who at best was not in a happy mood, but who said in a voice of extreme hauteur: “Well, sir, please tell us why you are standing here.” Zula He checked his speed, however, when he saw strangers, and not even the well-bred hauteur affected by the Persian nobles of Akbar’s court enabled him wholly to conceal the surprise with which he beheld Sainton. The Great Mogul They fell back, impressed in spite of themselves by the coolness and hauteur of his words. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 Instead, the thought of her palely-cold, passionless beauty called up another mobile thoroughbred face instinct with quick flashings of mirth and hauteur. The Valiants of Virginia "I hope England values us for something more useful than merely handsome faces," he rejoined, with a touch of hauteur that made the general smile. Love Works Wonders A Novel Do not imagine that you will increase your importance by hauteur to your own or to other people’s servants. A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies "If you choose to think so of me you may," she said, with immeasurable hauteur, sweeping away from him, her mauve ribbons fluttering disdainfully. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories He colored under the intense hauteur of her words. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 It came to him suddenly that that placidity and hauteur which he had so admired in the old days were no mask for fires within. The Valiants of Virginia The fastidious hauteur of English etiquette was far from being congenial to his mind and did not accord with his ideas of social life. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Watchful Jessica saw her mother’s face pale, while into her native cordiality of manner crept that slight hauteur with which she regarded the most objectionable of “tourists.” Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch She looked up, her face flushing slightly, but her lips and eyes shadowed already with that determined pride and hauteur that they had worn the last time I had seen her. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories Knowing, as we do, the hauteur of the archduchess, such condescension is almost inconceivable. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 "Really, this is too impudent!" exclaimed the duchess, recoiling with such disgust and hauteur that Florestan was again overcome with surprise. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 Jacques Ferrand delighted, with cruel joy, in the manifest impatience of the duchess, who, under the appearance of coolness and hauteur, repressed really painful agony. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 It is impossible to describe the extreme hauteur which marked the countenance of Rodolph as he uttered these words. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 She set her little teeth obstinately together, and looked up at him with her old hauteur. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories She laughed and drew back her shoulders with a mock hauteur. The Tempering “I did not,” I answered, with some little hauteur, for I held this was beside the matter, and a subject on which even he had no right to question me. The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec "I beg your pardon!" she said, her voice carrying clear and full, a touch of hauteur in her tone answering the harshness of Angus' command. The Land of Strong Men Up, sir, up?" enquired a stoutish, pompous person, inhaling a pinch of snuff with all the graceful hauteur of Sir Benjamin himself, "Up, William—up what, up where? Our Admirable Betty A Romance She darted a quick look at Vaughan's companion, which Nina gave back with a dash of hauteur. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories There was a respectful trace of negation and hauteur in the disclaimer. The Tempering Merry was not far behind, and her appearance prevented Edith's hauteur from becoming too apparent. The Bachelors A Novel "Is that all?" asked the girl with a show of hauteur. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School She laid aside all hauteur, all perversity, and gave herself unreservedly to her good friends. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Telfer evidently thought the transformation complete, for he forgot all his reserve resolutions and hauteur, and poured out the tenderest love for a girl who, three months before, he had wished at the devil! Beatrice Boville and Other Stories This mixture of hauteur and familiarity appeared to enchant the landlord, and he laid down on the bed the dishes he was carrying. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion She rose, with a trace of inquietude beneath her calm hauteur. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois "And those two girls are going to Glenwood—the boarding school I attend!" and Viola's lip curled in hauteur. Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School And look at the hauteur of her bearing to old Blucher! Jack Hinton The Guardsman "You are satisfied, I presume, sir, that the man you want is not on board my yacht?" asked Browne, with considerable hauteur. The Red Rat's Daughter With freezing hauteur the woman raised her parasol and interposed its shelter between her and the offending flag. A Daughter of the Union She met me with a full open gaze, as devoid of allurement as it was of repellence and hauteur. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois He bowed his head a little from its proud hauteur, and said— "You are right; you are right." Fairfax and His Pride I scarcely know her, for somehow she rather affects hauteur with my cloth, and rarely deigns any notice of the red-coats so plentifully sprinkled along your father's dinner-table. Jack Hinton The Guardsman He had met the Prince now on several occasions at different houses in the city, and that arrogant nobleman had always treated him with marked hauteur, hardly taking the trouble to acknowledge his polite salutation. The Intriguers "Perhaps, madame, he may have regarded our pretensions as of little moment; indeed, I believe he treated my father's demands with much hauteur." The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly In the presence of the men who had condemned me to death and to a disgrace worse than death, she raised her head and passed by them with the hauteur of a queen. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois He admired her hauteur, the proud cold loveliness. Fairfax and His Pride The latter received the suggestion with some hauteur, and said he did not know whether he could take the office. Black Forest Village Stories You have told me half a dozen times that this man treats you with the greatest hauteur, hardly deigns to return your salutation. The Intriguers Perhaps as difficult a quality to attain as any which the poetry of the future will be called upon to study is stateliness, what the French call ‘la vraie hauteur’. The Future of English Poetry They did not bend, and I could see nothing but hauteur in her pale face and the drooping lashes of her eyes. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois At length one of the duke's counsellors came out of the audience-room, and with insolent hauteur beckoned the Leignitz ambassador, who reverentially approached the proud knight. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist He leaned back in the chair and allowed a note of official hauteur and annoyance to creep into his voice. No Shield from the Dead With what hauteur the latter expresses herself concerning "the self-seeking crowds who throng about those who hold great places"! Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty We can see them walking amidst the frivolity of their times with the hauteur of too conscious superiority. Roman Women "Mongrel!" she thrust at me, with a flash of hauteur. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Of course the blond children of Albion muster strongly, and, indeed, rather eclipse the native gentlemen with their severe hauteur and stately presence. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) I offered her my arm, the which she graciously accepted; I thought she looked softened in her behaviour, and had less of the hauteur. Women of England His face is a true British face,—round and full, with firmly set mouth, positive chin, and that peculiar sort of hauteur which is a national characteristic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 The direct appeal to her makes her look up once more, with great hauteur in the coldness of her face. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June "I have already expressed to the se�or the full measure of our gratitude for his service," replied Don Pedro, in a tone which recalled the girl to her first manner of polite hauteur. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois With all the hauteur she could summon to her aid, she swept him with her scorn. The Song of the Wolf "I am afraid I am rather literal," she said, with more hauteur than the occasion demanded. Ancestors A Novel Instinctively she throws an additional touch of hauteur into her shapely head, and without deigning to notice the old man, sweeps by him, her glimmering white skirts making a gentle frou-frou as she goes. Portia or By Passions Rocked She would stay on guard, and, mastered by her chill hauteur, he turned and hastened toward the Forum. Sónnica "And you had the courage to guess aright, to persevere against all my scorn and hauteur, to cross the barrier of rock and the barrier of pride and birth, into my heart, Juan!" A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois "How perfectly absurd!" she returned, with a rebuking hauteur, and deftly changing the subject proceeded to regale Mrs. Vaughan with the details of New York's latest operatic sensation. The Song of the Wolf At that Rosie turned slowly about and gazed down upon him with all the hauteur of an offended queen. The Rosie World Miss Blount is a true woman, her hauteur of a moment since vanishes like snow, and compassion takes its place. Portia or By Passions Rocked There was a dryness, a coldness, and an appearance of reserve and hauteur about his manner which repelled strangers, and kept acquaintanceship from ripening into friendship. Studies in Contemporary Biography But as I reached out to clasp his hand, he suddenly recalled our agreement not to recognize one another, and drew back with feigned hauteur. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Darl�s raised his head, and proudly looked the old man in the eyes, with the hauteur of one still innocent. Their Son; The Necklace I assumed an air of grave hauteur, was very exacting in all my requisitions and stipulations, and would give no promise of doing more than to give the situation a temporary trial. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Time, the leveler, seemed to have no more effect upon the princely pile than to increase its hauteur with each passing year. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch She met Morrison's indignant look with the hauteur of an offended goddess. The Blue Goose At times when alone on watch at night, I thought with misgiving of the approaching days when my lady would resume her fine Castilian hauteur and Don Pedro his punctilious politeness. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois She had grown self-reliant and there was a tinge of hauteur in her manner which seemed to add to her stature and give a regal carriage to her beautiful head. Banked Fires The confusion and humiliation on the one side, and the hauteur and coldness on the other, may be readily imagined. Railway Adventures and Anecdotes extending over more than fifty years She was much derided for her self-esteem by people who knew her slightly, and was also accused of hauteur and arrogance. Home Life of Great Authors Perk's clipped tone was partly English, partly the hauteur of the professional. Where I Wasn't Going There was a little touch of quiet hauteur in his look and tone, as if he wished to repel unsolicited criticism. Brooke's Daughter A Novel There was about this man a sullen reserve and hauteur which made conversation difficult and friendship impossible. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia Her blazing anger had given way to a chilly hauteur that showed that, although beaten, she had not hauled down the flag. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories His military bearing, his dress, and the hauteur of his countenance attracted the attention of the three leaders. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga Harriet was very beautiful as she made her plea, her unusual humility lending softness to the customary hauteur of her manner. Peggy Owen and Liberty She demanded rather than asked to see my mistress, with a hauteur born of the arctic snow. Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman “I—I don’t think I need satisfy you on that point, m’sieur,” she replied at last, with a slight hauteur, as though her dignity were offended. The Count's Chauffeur "My wife is very well," said Sir Tom, with a certain hauteur and abruptness, such as in all their lengthened conversations he had never shown before. Sir Tom And Jacqueline’s chin, tilting back with elaborate hauteur, was meant to indicate that she was in her first mind about it. The Missourian “I am of the opinion, sir,” Colonel Price replied, with a good bit of hauteur and heat, “that my daughter always has given, and always will give, the preference to brains!” The Bondboy Tara eyed the man with hauteur, as one whose acquaintance she had not made. Finn The Wolfhound First she shrank from remark; and, if persisted in, she, with her own peculiar hauteur, repelled it. Shirley She didn’t think of getting large cans till Michael in the process of opening the half-pint tins made the belated suggestion, which she greeted with some hauteur. Outside Inn There was a certain hauteur in the set of the demoiselle’s head, which outbalanced the mischief in her eyes. The Missourian Many tales are told of his arrogant self-assertion and hauteur. The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 "What did you say?" he demanded with hauteur. Mark Mason's Victory She walked with her head held high, hauteur in every step. Status Quo The braves strode by her in sullen silence, eloquently impressing their contumelious hauteur. Trail Tales Mrs. Gannette slowly drew herself up with the hauteur of a grandee. Carmen Ariza There was cold hauteur in her stare as she met the smile of Whitney Barnes and replied to his query: “Yes, Mr. Barnes, your father is in and alone.” Officer 666 But he couldn't resist: "I wasn't à la hauteur." Tante Oh, I can imagine the freezing hauteur that you'll receive him with, and the icy indifference you'll let him understand that he isn't a persona grata with! The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse Then suddenly the door opened, and there stood Ellen Robinson, disapproval and hauteur written in 69 every line of her unpleasant face! Cloudy Jewel Even while he laughed at the sudden hauteur of her tone, he allowed his glance to wander over her with manifest approval. The Dominant Strain "Much honored, I'm sure," said Miss Crane, with a mixture of hauteur and complacency that was as perplexing as it was amusing. Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend "I think you must be out of your head," the woman responded with crushing hauteur. Nobody An aura of coldness and power emanated from him—a sense of untouchable hauteur. Old Rambling House I think she is very unusual,” said Leslie with just the least bit of hauteur. Cloudy Jewel The announcement was made with a tremulous, but triumphant, hauteur, as though it must cover the physician with mortification. Dr. Sevier The air of hauteur given it by the purity of the profile and the almost insolent stare of the large black eyes was contradicted by the sweet, irresolute curves of the mouth. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 She was really a very pretty young woman, and evidently a thorough lady, though a spirit of hauteur made it apparent she was a Southerner through and through. War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 She was tall and supple in figure, and her face was girlish and very innocent-looking; and yet, both in her attitude and countenance there was a little pride, some hauteur. The First Violin A Novel She was tall and majestic, but there was an expression of pride and extreme hauteur on her countenance. Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 Ashton confronted him, vainly attempting to mask 255 his telltale look and color with a show of hauteur. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation She was proud to think that the family was so well placed socially, and carried herself with an air and a hauteur which was sometimes amusing, sometimes irritating to Lester! Jennie Gerhardt A Novel "We have certainly met in the course of business," the Captain conceded with a touch of hauteur, as he shifted the truss a little further under his right shoulder. Captain Dieppe The Congress is composed of better elements than is the administration, and it is ludicrous to see how the administration takes airs of hauteur with the Congress. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 "I can readily believe it," answered Blanch with a contemptuous laugh and hauteur of manner that were almost insulting. When Dreams Come True But Susie smiled rather wearily at my forlorn little parade of hauteur. The Prairie Child It acted as a carrier for a mixture of hatred, envy, and contemptuous hauteur. The Weakling Where was the hard, proud droop of the lip, the glance of mingled coldness and hauteur, the polished sarcasm of voice and manner? Not Like Other Girls However, the Queen showed more self-assertion in her treatment of the Court Godmother, which was characterised by some hauteur. In Brief Authority That is my affair,” she added with a touch of her former hauteur—a manner she had discarded with the wig and hoop skirt. The Comings of Cousin Ann The young woman with the hauteur and detachment of her calling did not speak, but just glanced at a glass dish under a glass cover. Home Life in Germany Although she possessed a proud and imperious nature, combined with great personal beauty and much natural hauteur, she soon became as gentle as a lamb. As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century She was dreadfully frightened at his earnestness, but her voice was dignified, and she drew herself away with a movement full of pride and hauteur. Not Like Other Girls Then, assuming her most self-possessed manner, with a slight touch of hauteur, she advanced to greet the newcomer. The Scarlet Feather There was unconscious hauteur in his manner of meeting this awful charge, in his tone, and in the perfect calm of his demeanor, which was more powerful than any vehement protestations could have been. The New Tenant Notwithstanding the gracious smile with which she acknowledged his presence, there was a certain hauteur about the proffered welcome—as if it was a mere expression of gratitude for the service he had formerly rendered. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora In the manner of the African there was a certain hauteur which had not escaped the observation of his hearers. The Giraffe Hunters Myra drew herself up to her full height, regarding him disdainfully and endeavouring to put all the hauteur she could summon up into her manner and expression. Bandit Love You kept me at a distance with your chilling, yet graceful, fascinating hauteur. Macaria Bernard Maddison drew himself up with a sudden hauteur, and raised his hand. The New Tenant “The king is kind,” returned Glaucon, putting by a part of his hauteur. A Victor of Salamis McArthur, with hauteur, walked to the nails where his wardrobe hung and fumbled among the clothing. 'Me--Smith' Besides which, as I have been told, the ancient Yorkshire house of Rohan has always been singularly free from aristocratic hauteur; perhaps their religion may have accounted for this, and also their poverty. The Martian There is a harder outline now about her mouth, less of dreaminess in the eyes, more of cold hauteur in the whole face. Macaria "Throw down that weapon, monsieur," said he, with hauteur. The Regent's Daughter I find but two charges which respect me personally; the first is, the exercising such a degree of hauteur and presumption as to give offence to every gentleman with whom I transacted business. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I "I don't understand you, sir," said Milton Graham, with hauteur. The Young Adventurer or Tom's Trip Across the Plains Now this lofty forgetting of your poor existence—or mine—is not aristocratic hauteur or patrician insolence; it is bêtise pure et simple, as they call it in France. The Martian A touch of hauteur involuntarily entered into his manner. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands Poussette's unnaturally long face matched with Pauline's hauteur and Crabbe's careless air of mastery; he, the sullen cad, the drunken loafer, having become the arbiter of manners, the final court of appeal. Ringfield A Novel There was a touch of hauteur as well as of indignant surprise in the fine old seaman's voice. Studies in love and in terror The Dauphine, with her usual hauteur, was mounting with her head held high. Terribly Intimate Portraits The hauteur of being one of the élite of Joralemon again flashed out. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life “Don’t you dare to say an ill word of him!” cried Nora, her Irish blood throwing hauteur to the winds. The Place of Honeymoons An unusual hauteur in the Frenchman's demeanour did not escape the minister, who was not, however, disposed to ask any questions. Ringfield A Novel But this man writes out his opinion coolly, simply, with that fine hauteur that will not condescend to know of opposition. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance "I shall write reviews for a New York paper," he answered, trying in vain to impress her by a touch of literary hauteur. Virginia Our interest centered in the camels, the great, disdainful camels, who looked down upon ministers plenipotentiary and potentates and powers with such superb hauteur. Peking Dust We had been cautioned that if treated with hauteur the guides often became sullen, whilst kindness ensured their devotion and courtesy, and as we never tried the former tone, we were capital friends with them. A Girl's Ride in Iceland A little of the hauteur Ringfield associated with her showed in her bearing, and as the guide drew his food again towards him, she eyed him almost with disfavour. Ringfield A Novel There is hauteur in my omission of it, and it is a fact that we can express ourselves with far more vigour without g’s or r’s than you of the North can with them. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance She came of a noble family, too, and gave herself all the airs common in those days to ladies of title—hauteur, dignity, and condescension by turns. As We Sweep Through The Deep Everybody stood up and sat down in the wrong places as usual, and the friends of the bride looked with extreme hauteur at the friends of the bridegroom, and vice vers�. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 Involuntarily she gazed at the reflection of the white-gowned lady, and unconsciously an air of serenity, almost hauteur, replaced her usual merry smile, and with a gracious mien she passed on down the stairs. Patty's Friends But I did not altogether like her expression, which was a blank, save for a hint of hauteur mingled with dissatisfaction at things in general. The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise "What?" and the woman emerged from the hauteur of the royal personality. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Bill's hauteur vanished, and he became his old self again. More Cargoes 1897 With the confidence of long familiarity and the faint hauteur of shyness he explained some of the diagrams in which, at that moment, he was interested. Old Junk "I shall act as I have decided," Omar answered with true princely hauteur. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason Ned looked at him with great hauteur, and then was about to pass by without further notice. The Day of Judgment The girl drew herself up with a hauteur which could never have been imitated upon the stage. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play The Archbishop looked at him with extreme hauteur. Drolls From Shadowland He and the "King" had never been able to get on together, the mountaineer treating him with rough indifference, and Churchill returning it with a hauteur which he considered very effective. The Candidate A Political Romance "The son of the Naya is no traitor," he answered with hauteur. The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason "I do not know why I should answer you," she said, and there was hauteur in her voice. The Day of Judgment But her odd face, her unusual clothes, and her great hauteur marked her at once in the eyes of the idlers who sat on deck and gossiped. The Cricket Victor heard him, and put up his eyeglass in amazement; but he, in his turn, had only a shirt on, and the hauteur was a failure. Comedies of Courtship With his usual hauteur he prepared to teach the ex-Marquis his place from the outset. William Pitt and the Great War Young ladies carried themselves with greater hauteur than ever, heroically determined that they at least would do their duty to Society. The Tribune of Nova Scotia A Chronicle of Joseph Howe The hauteur of the grandee on his own ground was clearly marked in it, and Robert could not help fancying that towards himself there had even been something more. Robert Elsmere His countenance at times assumed an air of hauteur which doubtless had become a habit, either from personating characters of this stamp or from a consciousness of his merited popularity. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science There was a bit of hauteur in her voice. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 I repelled some advances she made me with a hauteur and coldness that it mortified me afterward to remember. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Bertha, as she said these words, bowed with a degree of hauteur which no one had ever seen her assume, and, taking M. de Bois's arm, approached her aunt with a troubled countenance. Fairy Fingers A Novel She asked him little abrupt questions about the neighbourhood, his parish, his work, in a soft tone which had, however, a distinct aloofness, even hauteur. Robert Elsmere At sunset the chief returned from the forest, all traces of the recent farce were gone from his face, on which rested the old expression of pride and hauteur. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West The French hate them sufficiently for the hauteur of their manner and pretensions, but the grounds of dislike against us are drowned in the actual detestation afforded by the other powers. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) A headman was suspected of murdering his chief wife, and the only evidence against him was that of the under wives to whom she displayed much hauteur and arrogance. Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Bertha received her quondam partner of the dance with much warmth and vivacity; but the countess looked with freezing hauteur upon these American friends of her grandson. Fairy Fingers A Novel Her attitude was hauteur itself, but she made no further active opposition. Robert Elsmere There was just a touch of hauteur as he said: "We'll see 'Hot Seat'." Out Like a Light There are times when I should prefer more affection and less hauteur. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson “You do not wear—” “The uniform?” he interrupted, with a touch of hauteur. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada It was obviously not without reason that Sophia had complained of his hauteur. Deerbrook Then aloud he demanded, with hauteur: “Who do you wish to see, lady?” A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall “My name, Mr Stanhope, as you are pleased to observe,” said the Colonel, with hauteur, “is Jervis, and my business with you is relative to your daughter.” Valerie In contrast to Virginia's hauteur and selfishness are the kindly deeds of Joan, "Little Glad Heart." Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's The first movement has the martial pomp and hauteur and the Sardanapalian opulence and color that mark 294 a barbaric triumph. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions And thereupon he shifted his position with as much assumption of hauteur as his inherent amiability permitted. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance "Which way do you go, M'sieu?" she asked, with unconscious hauteur. A Little Girl in Old Quebec He had sent up his card, and Mr Stanhope received him with great hauteur. Valerie Though very quiet and unobtrusive as a rule, Max could suddenly assume an air of hauteur and overbearing which was really very annoying. The Lost Girl But he thrust me aside: "I ban gude Swede!" he said, resentfully this time, with hauteur. Nights in London She carried herself with the dignity of a duchess; that is, a conventional duchess, and talked habitually with the hauteur and elegance of a stage queen. The Music Master Novelized from the Play That woman who had the effrontery to take the name of Law, though she was only his mistress, treated them with hauteur. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 “I will not inflict myself upon Mr Conyers—who is doubtless dying for his after-breakfast smoke,” she answered, with a complete return of all her former hauteur of manner. The Castaways "I need not tell you how I regret this unfortunate decision of yours," he said politely, with a slight touch of the hauteur that sat so well on his graceful person. A Philanthropist She drew herself up in a pose of hauteur which a stout person can only achieve with practice. The Lady Doc No one would have dreamed, seeing Mrs. Sudds at the moment with her air of royal hauteur, that in bygone days she had had her own troubles making twelve dollars a week as a stenographer. The Fighting Shepherdess The Queen catches the look of hauteur and hatred that is exchanged between them. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes Was it merely my imagination—I asked myself—or was there really a recurrent shade of her former hauteur of manner, mingled with just the faintest suggestion of irony and impatience? The Castaways "It is true I wrote you," she continued with a hauteur which would have reduced a less buoyant nature to instant dumbness. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Mrs. Jackson drew herself up with regal hauteur and pointed. The Lady Doc The lips that Patricia had designated as "nice and crinkly" widened in a bright smile that held no hint of hauteur. Miss Pat at School His pomposity was on the surface, and his stiffness and hauteur were but the mannerisms with which some men are cursed. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden This dispensation lasted a full half-hour, but beyond that the kindly old heart was quite unequal to supporting a proper hauteur. The Nebuly Coat Yet in spite of his touch of hauteur there was a real kindliness in the manner in which he held out his hands to the strangers and bade them welcome. The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country Though Poix had not the remotest idea in the world who he was, yet he received him with obliging courtesy, combined with a certain customary hauteur. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette In the circumstances I excuse his apparent hauteur. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 1, 1916 "Thank you, Dr. Weirmarsh, but I cannot see that my private affairs are any concern of yours," she replied with some hauteur. The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime Her eyes met his in a quick surprise that was on the verge of hauteur. The Highgrader The men, for the most part, looked embarrassed; the women's expressions varied from frozen hauteur to scornful rage. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa There was just a touch of hauteur as he said, "We'll see Hot Seat." The Impossibles The girl waited awhile and then— "Did you bring a message from my father?" she asked, a slight tinge of impatience and hauteur in her manner. In Kings' Byways They took her rustic hauteur and her professed indifference to the distinction of Ludlow's invitation, as her pose. The Coast of Bohemia Their hauteur and reserve insured desired social entrée, while hedging against impertinent curiosity. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 In those days everything from furniture to festivity was designed to be enjoyed by the many, so that whatever of pomp or magnificence there might have been did not savour of hauteur. My Reminiscences Explain——" "Better leave explanation to another time," interrupts Philip, with insolent hauteur, his repentant mood having vanished with Luttrell's arrival, "and take Miss Massereene home. Molly Bawn There was a touch of hauteur in his tone when he replied, "Do you suggest that I am hiding him?" The Grell Mystery There was a subtle hauteur in the voice; it subdued Kitty's inquisitiveness. The Lure of the Mask Lady Mary was imbued with patrician ideas, and bore herself towards her husband's family with considerable hauteur. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion But her companion was not influenced and indeed paid no attention to the younger girl’s hauteur. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army "You strangely forget yourself," says Molly, with chilling hauteur, drawing herself up to her full height. Molly Bawn Frederick's eyes were filled with hauteur unusual to the boy, and Teola was clinging to his neck, weeping wildly. Tess of the Storm Country And it had come to a point at last where even the hauteur of her class would no longer suffice to cover the humiliations of her daily life. The Genius And she, when she found out, as she did instinctively, that she had to deal with a gentleman, dropped something of the hauteur of her silence. Kept in the Dark Bill's hauteur vanished and he became his old self again. Sea Urchins Then the amiable air which he had worn in the shop gave way to one of unseemly hauteur as he saw Fraser hurrying towards him. A Master Of Craft Tessibel's peremptory leaving and the hauteur in her face were so foreign to her that Ezra Longman did not dare follow. Tess of the Storm Country On their heels hastened the Apúkhtin, who played the few seconds of farce with angry hauteur. The Genius But the Corinthians also were full of disputatious curiosity and intellectual hauteur. The Life of St. Paul "No need to worry," she said, with a sudden accent of hauteur. The Brentons Moonlight received this very decided and unusually civil proposal of marriage with becoming hauteur, for she was still ruffled by the undignified manner in which she had been carried off. The Prairie Chief Into the manner of young Mr. Stuart Farquaharson came now the hauteur of dignified rebuke. The Tyranny of Weakness "I would thank you to explain your language," said the young man with great hauteur. A Child of the Glens or, Elsie's Fortune To several queries put to her, she replied with extreme hauteur, as if she considered them as impertinent, and frowned upon her companions most majestically. Newton Forster The Merchant Service “I am the Rajah of Dah now,” said the Malay chief with a touch of hauteur in his tones. The Rajah of Dah “I repeat my words,” said Tom Long, with hauteur. Middy and Ensign "It is easily explained," said the lady, losing some of her hauteur, and showing a touch of eagerness to be set right in the stranger's eye. Doom Castle |
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