Примери за haughty

• A vocal delivery that might seem haughty or conceited, too mellifluous or elegant, excessively 'musical', or calculated to please others must be avoided.

• The haughty attitudes of the pre-war era were slow to disappear.

• This form, though generally more masculine than feminine, may be used by tough or haughty female teachers and other females in authority.

• The tone throughout is haughty and condescending, reinforced by flashes of knowingly superior humour.

• Pavlov ensured such indifference in advance by haughty dismissal of any other approach.

• Manchester was rather more haughty about who could join.

• They thought they were all haughty and arrogant.

• But we have reservations nevertheless of a very vital character which cannot be removed either by any haughty contempt or complete silence.

• The idea that it is haughty and takes to itself positive powers of direction is as far from the truth as it can be.

• They might become a little haughty about their lifelong abstinence from strong drink.

• I agree that, on paper, it seems to be a rather haughty, aristocratic institution.

• Over a period of weeks, even months, he maintained a haughty silence on the subject.

• Through that arrogance, pride and haughty spirit, they have made careless decisions on the poll tax.

• I am getting rather haughty, as he is about these things.

• Let them think of that before they get too proud and haughty.