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haughty and girl
" Typically, she wrote, "... the blonde ( is ) stable, and typifies the " girl next door ," while ( the ) ... brunette, is haughty, and a bit more exotic .” Shows featuring blondes and brunettes competing for a man include:
A haughty, willful, and capricious girl, she refuses to publicly admit her love and in fact often openly mocks him.
Caroline is puzzled by Shirley ’ s behaviour towards Louis-the friendly girl who treats her servants as her own family is always haughty and formal with Louis and never seems to forget that he is a lowly tutor with no money of his own.

haughty and turned
The situation worsened when young John Henry turned out to be a haughty and incompetent co-ruler disrespected by the Tyrolean aristocracy.
How he plotted !- Yea, Woe to him ; How he plotted !- Then he looked round ; Then he frowned and he scowled ; Then he turned back and was haughty ; Then said he: " This is nothing but magic, derived from of old ; " This is nothing but the word of a mortal!

haughty and distinguished
In all ages it distinguished itself alike by a spirit of haughty defiance, by disdain for the laws, and iron hardness of heart.

haughty and man
:" A man of broad cultural achievement ... Leopold Mozart may have been haughty, difficult to please and at times intractable, ... but there is no compelling evidence that Mozart was excessively manipulative, intolerant, autocratic or jealous of his son ’ s talent.
Over time, Caesarion turns from a haughty prince to a decent young man, and ultimately, he must decide whether or not to give up his old life in exchange for a new one in peace.
Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) is a John Osborne play — made into films in 1959, 1980, and 1989 — about a love triangle involving an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working class origin ( Jimmy Porter ), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife ( Alison ), and her haughty best friend ( Helena Charles ).
:" He was a man of great independence and decision-bold, keen and sarcastic, and spoke his mind of men and measures with great freedom ..... He was naturally inclined to be arbitrary and haughty, but his sense of what was right, and his pride prevented him from doing intentional evil.
Colonel Alexander Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry ( 15 September 1773 – 1828 ), sometimes called by the Gaelic version of his name, Alastair or Alasdair, was clan chief of Clan MacDonell of Glengarry and was also the personality well known to Walter Scott, a haughty and flamboyant man whose character and behaviour gave Scott the model for the wild Highland clan chieftain Fergus Mac-Ivor in the pioneering historical novel Waverley of 1810.
The subedar is a haughty and cruel man.
The Shaggy Man appeared at the Kansas home of Dorothy Gale one day in August, asking for directions to the nearby town of Butterfield so as to avoid going there by accident, for he wants to avoid a man who would return a loan of fifteen cents: as " Money ... makes people proud and haughty.
Evangelisti ’ s interpretation of his character is a cruel, ruthless, haughty, restless man, who acts mercilessly to protect the Catholic Church against perceived menaces of natural or supernatural origin.

haughty and standing
" See that princess standing there, so haughty and confident.

haughty and at
The character's initial haughty and often cruel manner begins to soften after his years of imprisonment at the start of the series, but the challenge of undoing past sins and changing old ways is an enormous one for a being who has been set in his ways for billions of years.
Romana is initially haughty and somewhat arrogant, looking down on the Doctor ( whom she considers to be her academic inferior ) and responding to his initial resentment at her presence with icy put-downs.
For example, Henry's " I know not what to say, my title's weak " ( 1. 1. 135 ), " All will revolt from me, and turn to him " ( 1. 1. 152 ), " And I with grief and sorrow to the court " ( 1. 1. 211 ), and " Revenged may she be on that hateful Duke ,/ Whose haughty spirit, wing'd with desire ,/ Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle / Tire on the flesh of me and my son " ( 1. 1. 267 – 270 ); Exeter's " And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all " ( 1. 1. 274 ); the entirety of York's soliloquy in Act 1, Scene 4 ; Warwick's pause to get his breath during the Battle of Barnet ( 2. 3. 1 – 5 ); all of Act 2, Scene 5 ( including dialogue from Henry, the father and the son ) up to the entry of Prince Edward at line 125 ; all of Henry's monologue in Act 3, Scene 1, prior to his arrest ( ll. 13 – 54 ); Richard's entire soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 2 ( ll. 124 – 195 ); Margaret's " Ay, now begins a second storm to rise ,/ For this is he that moves both wind and tide " ( 3. 3. 47 – 48 ); Warwick's soliloquy at the end of the Act 3, Scene 3 ( ll. 257 – 268 ); Richard's " I hear, yet say not much, but think the more " ( 4. 1. 85 ) and " Not I, my thoughts aim at a further matter :/ I stay not for love of Edward but the crown " ( 141. 124 – 125 ); Warwick's " O unbid spite, is sportful Edward come " ( 5. 1. 18 ); the entirety of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6, after killing Henry ( ll. 61 – 93 ) and Richard's " To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master / And cried ' All hail ', whenas he meant all harm " ( 5. 7. 33 – 34 ).
Alexander, who admired courage in his enemies and might have been inclined to show mercy to the brave Persian general, was infuriated at Batis's refusal to kneel and by the enemy commander's haughty silence and contemptuous manner.
Discouraged but not despairing, the party then sought out the king's chief minister, the haughty, eerily calm < span lang =" fr "> de Polignac </ span > – "< span lang =" fr "> Jeanne d ' Arc en culottes </ span >" as he was whisperingly called at Saint-Cloud.
These horrific executions, especially of priests and nuns, as well as women and children, known as the Drownings at Nantes ( Noyades ) along with his increasing haughty demeanor, gained Carrier a reputation for wanton cruelty.
The Border clans, as haughty and hot-headed as the Gaels farther north, were always at strife.
Furthermore, his best friend, Jedediah Leland, becomes profoundly disillusioned at Kane's haughty arrogance — first by humiliating his family, and then by treating the electorate like his personal property — insisting on being transferred to Kane's Chicago paper to stay away from him.
These melodramatic tableaux include a nun in " extremely sorrowful prayer " experiencing " saintly transports of virginal purity "; a mother feeling both pain and joy while leaning over a child's crib ; a bare-shouldered coquette looking at once offended, haughty and mocking ; and three scenes from Lady Macbeth expressing the " aggressive and wicked passions of hatred, of jealousy, of cruel instincts ," modulated to varying degrees of contrary feelings of filial piety.
In the episode Smug Alert, they portray San Francisco liberals as haughty and condescending towards people less progressive than themselves and poking fun at the large number of wine and cheese stores in San Francisco.
Her demeanour on the witness stand had been at times " indifferent, haughty and irritable ".
Though she is dubbed " The Ice Queen " by classmates for her cold, yet awe-inspiring, unreachable, persona at school, the words: perceptive, resourceful, haughty, gentle, spiteful, and rash when flustered are but a small collection to describe her when her identity as a magus is revealed.
In Suetonius ' Life of Nero, we read that the emperor Nero's grandfather, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, whose wife was Antonia Major, daughter of Mark Antony, " was haughty, extravagant, and cruel, and when he was only an aedile, forced the censor Lucius Plancus to make way for him on the street ": the story seems to hint at the poor reputation Plancus held after his censorship.
Though at first her manner could seem haughty, residents soon discovered that Victoria was more approachable than her husband.
The wood was green as mosses of the Icy Glen ; the trees stood high and haughty, feeling their living sap ; the industrious earth beneath was as a weaver's loom … " Herman Melville was living not too far from Pittsfield when he wrote the novel, and he is known to have visited the Ice Glen on at least one occasion.
La Chalotais, who was personally a violent, haughty and unsympathetic character, died at Rennes in 1785.
Roshaun ke Nelaid am Seriv am Teliuyve am Meseph am Veliz am Teriaunst am det Nuiiliat ( sometimes am det Wellakhit ) is a haughty humanoid alien prince from the planet Wellakh first featured in Wizard's Holiday and remains a prominent character until his disappearance in Wizards at War.
The Times said of her film work: " One role in a film written by Coward will remain always in the memory: with haughty disdain and an accent of fearful gentility Carey was the manageress of the station buffet in Brief Encounter, who froze her customers and slapped down attempts at familiarity from Stanley Holloway's ticket collector.
However, the campaign was compromised at the very beginning when, according to one source, " his haughty and inept exercise of command " led to a quarrel between him and the military tribune Bonifacius, a protégé of Empress Galla Placidia.
:" The name Mignons began, at this time, to travel by word of mouth through the people, to whom they were very odious, as much for their ways which were jesting and haughty as for their paint and effeminate and unchaste apparel ... Their occupations are gambling, blaspheming ... fornicating and following the King everywhere ... seeking to please him in everything they do and say, caring little for God or virtue, contenting themselves to be in the good graces of their master, whom they fear and honor more than God.

haughty and her
She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.
She is haughty and ambitious, scheming to restore the monarchy through her children.
" He described her as having eyes of " excessive beauty ", an " orientally dark " complexion and an air of " haughty ease ".
She is a 21st century successor to Dorothy Wainwright, but less haughty and seemingly more willing to get her hands dirty.
For her part, Anne, now Queen and no longer the timid adolescent so easily dominated by her more beautiful friend, had grown tired of Sarah's tactless political hectoring and increasingly haughty manner which, in the coming years, were to destroy their friendship and undermine the position of her husband.
Evans was particularly well known for portraying haughty aristocratic ladies, as in two of her most famous roles: Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest ( both on stage and in the 1952 film ), and Miss Western in the 1963 film of Tom Jones.
Although seemingly calm and poised in public, deferring to her teachers ' authority, B-ko is haughty and goes to great lengths to get what she wants.
She is portrayed as a haughty sadist, who enjoys decapitating anyone who merely annoys her.
These convictions were strengthened in her mind by the new favourite Abigail Masham ( a cousin of the Duchess of Marlborough through her mother, and of Harley on her father's side ), whose coaxing contrasted favourably in the eyes of the Queen with the haughty manners of her old friend, the Duchess of Marlborough.
It was said to be an indication that the person who had this characteristic would be proud and haughty, and a wise woman told her mother that Nzingha will become queen one day.
Sage, still well off, was generous with her money, and the group of impoverished artists badly needed such support, but they resented her wealth and what they felt was a haughty attitude that fitted her former title of “ Princess ” all too well.
* Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay ( 1787 – 1835 ): Eliza appeared to many a haughty, pompous socialite, quick to remind others of her good breeding and lofty station.
In Rose-Marie ( 1936 ), MacDonald played a haughty opera diva who learns her kid brother ( James Stewart ) has killed a Mountie and is hiding in the northern woods ; Eddy is the Mountie sent to capture him.

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