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Usage for hauteur


The writer found her to be friendly and 'free from hauteur, offering a warm smile rather than a fashion-style flicker of facial muscles' and over the course of the interview, 'Roitfeld talks at Eurostar-speed, and doesn't check her BlackBerry, ...

The one cheering exception to an otherwise ho-hum exercise is Galifianakis, who plays the spoiled, sartorially challenged man-child Alan, a preening, glowering, utterly fascinating conundrum composed of co-equal parts naivete, hauteur, feral menace and ...

The success of the visit was helped enormously by the fact that the queen is a smiling grandmother rather than a swaggering, blustering agent of imperial hauteur. It was difficult to feel anything but admiration and indeed sympathy for this elderly ...

Therefore, his innate hauteur was expected. Today, it's just regarded as damned odd. People in these new stories treat Holmes as an Aspergian eccentric who might just be a bit dangerous. The bobbies of Conan Doyle's time might have been honoured to let ...

... Deirdre's increasingly gruff voice and appalling choice in men/ glasses and clothes, Annie Walker's hauteur, Steve Macdonald's eye-rolling, tongue-in-cheek exaggeration, Ena and Blanche's acidic putdowns, and Hilda's aspirations and pride. ...


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