| He grinned at her, she smiled back, the first expression besides sullen pouting and imperial hauteur he'd seen. |
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| But she negotiates its vocal awkwardness capably, and supplies much of the character's blend of hauteur, froideur and directness. |
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| Johan Kobborg played Prince Desire with the grandiloquence and hauteur he is so capable of. |
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| But they soon got used to my low-key presence and stared at me with supercilious hauteur. |
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| Daphne lifts her chin in an overblown attempt at hauteur and heads into the closet to fetch her coat. |
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| Ramirez bowed his head in reverence, seeing once more the profound mind that lurked beneath Rakael's veneer of bickering and hauteur. |
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| Flo is tall, angular and stately, a fascinating mixture of formal hauteur and bohemian ditziness. |
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| The West must discard its hauteur, its double standards, its superiority complex and its cultural zeal. |
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| Gone was the better-than-thou hauteur and proud carriage synonymous to Adrienne Clarke. |
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| He exudes a sense of self-possession and hauteur that leads critics in the media and among his party to label him arrogant. |
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| Cynics might suggest that the jackets were commissioned to enhance the cultivated hauteur of the members. |
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| To her finer qualities must be added a quick temper and considerable hauteur, more readily apparent to the Chinese than to most foreigners. |
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| By all reports straight and happily partnered with a female politician, Rickman nonetheless has the kind of suave, queeny hauteur any Noel Coward manque would kill for. |
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| Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur. |
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| With his hauteur and chequered disciplinary record, as well as his sublime talent, he dominated the emerging celebrity culture of English football. |
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| For all his reputation for hauteur, I would forever after remember this evidence of Vidal's graciousness and self-confidence. |
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| Middle class people can claim neither the heroic struggles of the proletariat nor the cultural hauteur and effortless savoir faire of the aristocracy. |
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| Adriana is no match for her hauteur and ruthlessness, and, with her solid vocalism, she is the center of attention every time that she is on stage. |
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| Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur. |
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| Oil and hauteur Brains and borders Coming apart? |
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| Far more important, he inherited from his Prussian father chronic indecision and a lack of moral fibre, and from his English mother—Queen Victoria's eldest daughter pride, tactlessness and extreme hauteur. |
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| It was clear that the Queen, if she indeed proved to be the target, would be outpointed for grooming and hauteur. |
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| There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep. |
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