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  • She promenades to the radio and, with an arrogant flourish, turns off the good loud blues that is playing.   (source)
    arrogant = excessive sense of superiority
  • "Hubris," Stevie Rae explained, "having godlike arrogance."   (source)
    arrogance = an excessive sense of superiority
  • It takes arrogance, really—to believe you can will, with your eyes and your lips, the destiny of another.   (source)
    arrogance = having an excessive sense of superiority
  • Since when did I think that display of arrogance was cute?   (source)
    arrogance = an excessive sense of superiority
  • ...moving confidently, arrogantly. He had the power.   (source)
    arrogantly = with an excessive sense of superiority
  • There was pride in his eyes without arrogance.   (source)
    arrogance = an excessive sense of superiority
  • I walked away from him with a certain amount of arrogance and much style and...   (source)
  • "Then congratulations, you are already halfway to being a man," he said with no trace of humor, no irony, the compliment of the casually arrogant.†   (source)
  • They project arrogance and brutality.†   (source)
  • Even with a gun to his back, Roland is arrogant and sure of himself.†   (source)
  • Masking his ignorance with arrogance, he continued.†   (source)
  • To us, Mr. Erskine said that our laziness, our arrogance, our tendency to lollygag and daydream, and our sloppy sentimentality had all but ruined us for the serious business of life.†   (source)
  • I think, Don't act too confident, because then my dad will think you're arrogant.†   (source)
  • Da Shi looked around arrogantly, then suddenly dashed forward.†   (source)
  • My brother would have thought him dull, and arrogant besides.†   (source)
  • My self-image was bitterness masquerading as arrogance.†   (source)
  • Not out of fear but because he saw himself as a Slovak: proud, stubborn, and even, he conceded, arrogant about his place in the world.†   (source)
  • The arrogance of big-city folk!†   (source)
  • The translation, Aringarosa feared, was that the man was actually arrogant enough to think he could rewrite God's laws and win back the hearts of those who felt the demands of true Catholicism had become too inconvenient in a modern world.†   (source)
  • All three of them looked more pleased with themselves, more arrogant and more menacing, than Harry had ever seen them.†   (source)
  • They're arrogant and dull, and that's why I left them,†   (source)
  • Maybe Minho noticed it, too; any arrogance drained from his face.†   (source)
  • I heard him and could well imagine what he had been like in those business meetings, the career that had made him rich and arrogant.†   (source)
  • He must have seemed very arrogant.†   (source)
  • A little arrogant, maybe.†   (source)
  • She gets all arrogant.†   (source)
  • The Olympians are so arrogant; they never dreamed someone would dare steal from them.†   (source)
  • For six months, Dodgson had patiently cultivated this man, who had grown more obnoxious and arrogant with each meeting.†   (source)
  • Goeth was a stout man with an arrogant sneer and a bully's swagger.†   (source)
  • So, I highly suggest, Miss Sardothien, that you get your arrogance in check before you end up back in the mines.†   (source)
  • How arrogant!†   (source)
  • Finally the pretty dark-haired girl called Ringer, who's about my age, who not only has very shiny and very straight black hair, but also has the flawless complexion of an airbrushed model, the kind you see on the covers of fashion magazines smiling arrogantly at you in the checkout line.†   (source)
  • The young man turned around and arrogantly looked down on Ji-yong.†   (source)
  • Even his arrogance need not be on display.†   (source)
  • These court messengers were greatly hated in Umuofia because they were foreigners and also arrogant and high-handed.†   (source)
  • I don't want to come off as arrogant here, but I'm the best botanist on the planet.†   (source)
  • His arrogance had disappeared along with Rameck's anger.†   (source)
  • Judith laughed and tossed back her head with all her old arrogance.†   (source)
  • The sly arrogance of the comment rankled him.†   (source)
  • She said this without a hint of arrogance on her wavering voice.†   (source)
  • An occasional person found him arrogant; most simply figured he had grown up a bit faster than everyone else.†   (source)
  • It was so arrogant of me to discount them completely.†   (source)
  • Am I really so arrogant?†   (source)
  • He spoke his own name with a French accent, since the French, with their arrogant Separatism, insisted that the teaching of Standard not begin until the age of four, when the French language patterns were already set.†   (source)
  • How did so stupid nation get to be so arrogant and rich?†   (source)
  • There was nothing arrogant in this, of course.†   (source)
  • The stupid thing wasn't going back once - anyone can make that mistake—the stupid thing was being arrogant enough to go back twice.†   (source)
  • It was arrogance that had done it.†   (source)
  • He seems arrogant.†   (source)
  • Or only looking at him insolently and arrogantly, convinced that he was too stupidly drunk to see?†   (source)
  • I raised the stakes by stealing larger objects—toy models. I became so arrogant that several times I would simply strut into the store, snatch an oversized model and stroll right out—all in less than a minute.†   (source)
  • Some saw his abrupt rise as dangerous and warned the others, but the Riders had grown arrogant in their power and ignored caution.†   (source)
  • "You're arrogant, self-centered, and glory-seeking," I said.†   (source)
  • The troopers were tall, arrogant, and unsympathetic.†   (source)
  • Anatole's students did essentially the same, displaying a constant impulse to educate him about democracy and human rights—arrogant sophomores!†   (source)
  • "Arrogant old farts," Kate muttered.†   (source)
  • Five and Six, phone calls to that arrogant client, Ted, then Agapi Agnos, whom she actually liked.†   (source)
  • The lieutenant took his time scanning their visa chips, letting them wait in the drizzle, occasionally making a comment with the idle arrogance common to such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.†   (source)
  • I was arrogant about it.†   (source)
  • Okay, okay, we do have our own little brand of arrogance.†   (source)
  • I also find, with some regularity, myself asking, How could someone so talented be so blind, so arrogant, so bigoted?†   (source)
  • In any case, the personal pride, the arrogant claim staked out at 124 seemed to them to have run its course.†   (source)
  • "Then they can build their own rockets," I said with an arrogant snarl.†   (source)
  • You don't respect those people very much, Y.T., because you're young and arrogant.†   (source)
  • He spoke intensely about Mc-Donald's, but stressed that its arrogant behavior was just one manifestation of a much larger problem now confronting the world: the rise of powerful multinationals that shift capital across borders with few qualms, that feel no allegiance to any nation, no loyalty to any group of farmers, workers, or consumers.†   (source)
  • Juilliard was for virtuoso musicians, and it seemed arrogant to even think that they'd give me a second glance.†   (source)
  • Yetta jerked her attention back to Jacob, just another arrogant cutter even if he did have those maddeningly handsome curls and honey-colored eyes.†   (source)
  • Basta scrutinized him with a mixture of wariness and arrogance.†   (source)
  • Arrogant.†   (source)
  • It showed in the way she stood absolutely still and in the arrogant tilt of her head.†   (source)
  • But where Isabelle was all arrogance, Alec slumped down in the chair as if he hoped nobody would notice him.†   (source)
  • A great deal of nonsense has been spoken and written in recent years concerning his lordship and the prominent role he came to play in great affairs, and some utterly ignorant reports have had it that he was motivated by egotism, or else arrogance.†   (source)
  • Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.†   (source)
  • The SS man had an impassive, arrogant face; the policeman was positively crawling to him, smiling, dancing attendance.†   (source)
  • This lady was fully enjoying herself, all by herself, and there wasn't an ounce of arrogance to spoil it.†   (source)
  • Cinder's arrogance left him in a second, like water poured from a bucket.†   (source)
  • In his late teens, Nathaniel announced with equal parts arrogance and admiration that he wanted to be like Mr. Barnoff and play in a major orchestra.†   (source)
  • Like her she was distinguished, like her she was arrogant, and like her she lived at the mercy of her prejudices.†   (source)
  • Jessica put all the royal arrogance at her command into her manner and voice.†   (source)
  • Actually I took it calmly, and perhaps even a bit arrogantly, reminding myself that I had already accomplished just about everything I'd set out to do—a high scholastic record, top SAT scores, every kind of high school recognition possible, along with my long list of achievements with the ROTC program.†   (source)
  • We are all of us very arrogant and conceited about running down other people's ghosts but just as ignorant and barbaric and superstitious about our own.†   (source)
  • When he looked up a lone gull had perched arrogantly on the port gunnel ten feet away and to stern.†   (source)
  • A bit later, Jeremy and David came strolling in through the gate, with a blend of shyness and boyish arrogance.†   (source)
  • I'd discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up.†   (source)
  • Some in the room may have considered this an arrogant thing to say, but I wasn't one of them.†   (source)
  • I just remember thinking she was much more radical and committed than anyone I'd met, arrogant and humble at the same time.†   (source)
  • He gave her an arrogant smile.†   (source)
  • Ten children and a lot of hard luck had worn him down, had worn away most of the arrogance he came to this country with.†   (source)
  • Surely even someone as arrogant as you cannot expect me to give an answer.†   (source)
  • I couldn't help it; he was way too arrogant.†   (source)
  • Marie examined the front-view and profile photographs of Smith: an arrogant face, tough, yet not entirely, for there was about it a peculiar refinement; the lips and nose seemed nicely made, and she thought the eyes, with their moist, dreamy expression, rather pretty-rather, in an actorish way, sensitive.†   (source)
  • Being in control but not being arrogant.†   (source)
  • And her arrogance produced, out of the smoke and confusion, a heavy, dark man who approached them with raised eyebrows.†   (source)
  • He told us that we were young and arrogant, and treating him without respect.†   (source)
  • Thank the skies the woman is too arrogant to think her Scholar drudge can read.†   (source)
  • He heard the speech with a growing sense of outrage, and thought it was "very arrogant and insulting."†   (source)
  • He wants to complain to you about arrogant Americans.†   (source)
  • The smile that curled his lips was as arrogant as it was beautiful.†   (source)
  • It was her arrogance.†   (source)
  • He had shown many signs of improvement, but his belligerent, arrogant, and selfish attitude—borne of a life of idle privilege—still showed through from time to time.†   (source)
  • Brown was so stubborn about his decision that even after the fire he was able to write arrogantly in a letter that "I am still standing the watch that burned Chicago."†   (source)
  • I would stay with him until he led me to the stone, but I promised myself that someday I would stick a sharp knife into his arrogance and give it a good twist.†   (source)
  • Our own ships will engage in a major exercise to locate us and at the same time to befuddle the arrogant imperialist navies.†   (source)
  • Tinkersley had had clean fingernails, but Jake wasn't arrogant like Tinkersley, and he gave the impression of having nothing but time.†   (source)
  • He could not despise her arrogance because she wasn't arrogant.†   (source)
  • Already, harsh words were being hung on him: arrogant, inept, overconfident.†   (source)
  • We didn't follow the Dick Marcinko Charm School of arrogance and alienating people.†   (source)
  • Part of me wants to give Tom a swift kick for his arrogance.†   (source)
  • He's ruthless, arrogant, but he's got a sixth sense for making money.†   (source)
  • If anyone looked up, he would be regarded as arrogant or too stubborn to change and too deeply influenced by capitalist filth.†   (source)
  • "Etienne was an Alpiniste," Mortenson explains, underlining with an exaggerated French pronunciation the respect and arrogance the term can convey among climbers.†   (source)
  • It's not out of arrogance or conceit; it's out of respect.†   (source)
  • I took him for one of those arrogant investment-banker types from the Brandt side.†   (source)
  • Rumor had it she was proud, arrogant, and ill, which only increased the general sympathy for the count, who gained a reputation as a patient, long-suffering husband.†   (source)
  • You should have seen the arrogant old bore, sitting there so sternly in that car like the Almighty Himself, with his big, rigid head and his foolish, solemn face.†   (source)
  • He had thin pitiless lips, eyes like a hawk's, and an arrogant manner.†   (source)
  • Ignatius entered the smaller door, his eyes full of an arrogant gleam.†   (source)
  • The proud and the meek, the arrogant and the humble are all made equal on Ash Wednesday.†   (source)
  • He was a good-looking man; he was at the peak of his scholarly career; he was even feared by his colleagues for the arrogance and tenacity he displayed during professional meetings and colloquia.†   (source)
  • He's just an arrogant, self-centered, chauvinistic— "Telephone!" says Mum.†   (source)
  • Some classmates considered her arrogant.†   (source)
  • Tom stared, dumbfounded at Raison's arrogance.†   (source)
  • It destroys our self-pride, our arrogance, our indifference toward others.†   (source)
  • Trials can be won or lost by the arrogance of a lawyer, and Wade Lanier was worried sick.†   (source)
  • "Sandy Koufax," Angel answered with a mix of arrogance and apprehension as he picked up the ball.†   (source)
  • "I want to leave," she said, in a voice oddly half cowed and half arrogant, commanding Radchaai.†   (source)
  • It was hung with three portraits of dignified old gentlemen in winged collars who looked down from their frames with an assurance and arrogance that I had never seen in any except white men and a few bad, razor-scarred Negroes.†   (source)
  • It was all so…arrogant.†   (source)
  • There was no hint of arrogance.†   (source)
  • He was unquestionably arrogant.†   (source)
  • The arrogance of ignorance, it's your favorite Washington theme; you always make it sound so Oriental.†   (source)
  • Perhaps his military success had made him arrogant, or perhaps such a man should never have retired to the quiet life of a country gentleman.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the river, the towers of Wall Street reach arrogantly toward the sky.†   (source)
  • As arrogant as young male tigers, the boys continued south along the beach, checking out the girls.†   (source)
  • It drew his scent out of her nostrils and scraped the veil from her eyes, and he stood before her just as he really was—a tall, skinny black man with arrogance and selfishness twisting his mouth into a strange shape.†   (source)
  • Why it had been sent was as yet unrevealed, but, judging by precedent, there had very likely been a phase of irreligious arrogance prevailing at the time.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lukens's arrogance saved many lives," she said softly.†   (source)
  • He doesn't like Oswald's attitude, thinking him "haughty, arrogant …. and insolent."†   (source)
  • Raffe's arrogance dial is cranked all the way up.†   (source)
  • The metal came rising to the top of the ladle and went running over with arrogant prodigality.†   (source)
  • (MARTHA blows him an arrogant kiss) Now ….†   (source)
  • Some flowers were arrogant invaders and would overrun the entire garden if allowed too much freedom.†   (source)
  • But the Bedoowan were powerful and power can lead to arrogance.†   (source)
  • And because of your ignorance, greed, and malicious, arrogant disregard of the law, the captain and crew of your ship are dead.†   (source)
  • I can't help but look at Daddy, who wears arrogance like aftershave.†   (source)
  • These days I see America drifting from the Christian faith, acting abroad as an arrogant, selfish, greedy nation, interested only in guns and dollars, not in people and their hopes and aspirations.†   (source)
  • And he says in satori-accented Korean, Hey you, arrogant youth, stop doing all that work and come drink with an elder.†   (source)
  • He's so arrogant.†   (source)
  • An appointment could be had with three months' advance warning, but no one wanted to tempt fate with the arrogance of assuming that he would be able to keep it.†   (source)
  • "…. said I gave her a raw deal, I was the villain because I overexpected, I was a narrow-minded, arrogant chauvinist—her exact words—Christ, I ask you, is it chauvinistic to expect six hours of work out of somebody, when you're paying for eight—"†   (source)
  • In its arrogance, the powerful town might believe that it could withstand any barbarian raid.†   (source)
  • Arrogant people, you know that?†   (source)
  • He was long-haired, skinny, stupid, and arrogant, and I didn't like him from the moment I met him.†   (source)
  • They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boasOcl they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents, they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.†   (source)
  • Still, there was a predatory swiftness in his gait and a slight outward bend to his legs that suggested speed and agility in his youth, which, thought Bouchard with misplaced arrogance, was quite some time ago.†   (source)
  • Because while I can do it, I'm not so arrogant or stupid as to think I'm properly' trained or qualified.†   (source)
  • One afternoon in the sixth grade (that year I was arrogant with talk, not knowing there were going to be high school dances and college seminars to set me back), I and my little sister and the quiet girl and her big sister stayed late after school for some reason.†   (source)
  • Buzzards, grown arrogant, roosted in the oaks and foraged in the refuse.†   (source)
  • His face bathed in tears, all of his arrogant defenses gone, he said: "Sometime, Father, when you say Mass, will you take the white Host for Christophe?"†   (source)
  • Somewhere beyond the battening, urged sweep of three-bedroom houses rushing by their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea. the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile; you…†   (source)
  • At this point Ginsberg wakes up, Nathan's forefinger furiously stabs the air, the voice becoming magisterial, arrogant, insufferably but gloriously hostile.†   (source)
  • I still have that arrogant plan—into St. Paul on Highway 10, then gently across the Mississippi.†   (source)
  • He was arrogant and defensive at the restaurant,†   (source)
  • ! have not come merely to prosecute a lawbreaker, an arrogant youth who has spoken out against the Revealed Word.†   (source)
  • In short order I developed intellectual arrogance.†   (source)
  • Miscerique probat populos et foedera jungi: Father Huismans had explained the arrogance of that motto.†   (source)
  • But the father had ruled for a long time, and for all her arrogance Kathleen, too, was weak.†   (source)
  • I think you know who he is and have been dragging your feet from bureaucratic arrogance.†   (source)
  • Full of arrogance, he had been, always the smartest, always working the most, always one step ahead of all others, always the knowing and spiritual one, always the priest or wise one.†   (source)
  • Now, as to the sermon-a proud and arrogant man, such as yourself-with an admittedly admirable quality of didacticism about him-was given to doing research in the area of a certain disfiguring and degenerative disease.†   (source)
  • What d'ya mean, I don't understand it? ... [To the others.] How d'ya like this guy? ...he's telling us how to run the show. The arrogance of the guy!†   (source)
  • The qualities he exhibited to Fiedler, the restless uncertainty, the protective arrogance concealing shame, were not approximations but extensions of qualities he actually possessed; hence also the slight dragging of the feet, the aspect of personal neglect, the indifference to food, and an increasing reliance on alcohol and tobacco.†   (source)
  • He was the thickset, arrogant, clean-shaven, well-dressed lawyer who now stood over his body, showing not the least surprise.†   (source)
  • He has risen to a note of drunken arrogance.†   (source)
  • And for Daniel Webster, the arrogant, scornful giant of the ages who believed himself above political rancor, Whittier's attack was especially bitter.†   (source)
  • While Mamie C. Loomis, a child in peach, sang "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go," Mr. King sucked a little marrow bone and lifted his wobbly head and looked arrogantly at Virgie through the two open doors of her mother's bedroom.†   (source)
  • We're supposed to be the arrogant ones, the proud, splenetic ones-and we've all given in!†   (source)
  • Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.†   (source)
  • He was more a Neanderthal vestige as he paraded down headquarters' corridors streaked with blood and mud, laughing and groaning, bearing himself with limping arrogance.†   (source)
  • She said, wanting to hurt him, really wanting to hurt him for the first time, because of this new arrogance of his, "You expect a lot from me, don't you?"†   (source)
  • I can't abide her arrogant attitude.
    arrogant = demonstrating an excessive sense of superiority
  • Her posture had the lightness and unself-conscious precision of an arrogantly pure self-confidence.†   (source)
  • During jury selection, he famously and arrogantly told the judge, "Give me the first twelve."†   (source)
  • He had arrogantly predicted the State would fail in its efforts, but he'd been proven wrong.†   (source)
  • He was a powerful figure, very controlled, almost arrogantly confident in his abilities.†   (source)
  • Brinker reared back arrogantly.†   (source)
  • They looked at him arrogantly.†   (source)
  • He called Owen's parents "monstrous," while he outrageously presumed that God had actually "listened" to his ardent, narrow prayer that my mother drop dead; and he arrogantly presumed further that God was now silent, and wouldn't listen to him—as if the Rev. Mr. Merrill, all by himself, possessed the power both to make God pay attention to him and to harden God's heart against him.†   (source)
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