hauteur

She displayed hauteur towards her subordinates.

His hauteur alienated his colleagues at work.

The politician's hauteur made him unpopular with the public.

Her hauteur was evident in the way she spoke to others.

He carried himself with an air of hauteur.

The actress's hauteur was mistaken for confidence.

His hauteur masked his insecurity.

The CEO's hauteur intimidated his employees.

The professor's hauteur made him difficult to approach.

She tried to hide her hauteur behind a smile.

" Yes, " said Eustacia, with a little more hauteur.

I responded with self-righteous hauteur that I most certainly did not.

Elliott gave me a glance in which I discerned a certain hauteur.

" The idea of your speaking in that tone to me! " she added, with a forced smile of hauteur.

" --on a United States cruiser, " he specified with a touch of hauteur.

Andora Macy was pale, faded, immature. She had a drooping Southern accent, and a manner which fluctuated between arch audacity and fits of panicky hauteur.

Paul's attention came at last to a tall blonde woman, green-eyed, a face of patrician beauty, classic in its hauteur, untouched by tears, completely undefeated.

'You must not begin such things as those, ' she said with coquettish hauteur of a very transparent nature 'And—you must not do so again—and papa is coming'.

Why, it was only the other day that I found I could not keep up to the last the unbending hauteur with which I had demanded from my husband the dismissal of the man Nanku.

" A little" ! she replied with hauteur [pride]; " if I am no use I can at least withdraw, " and she sprang in the most dignified way into bed and covered her face with the blankets.