I'm sure The Economist would be first in line to condemn him with no small hint of superciliousness.
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This may have been poor manners, yes — but it was also defensible in light of the superciliousness of Trudeau.
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I think what they saw, and what they recognized, was the character of Hermione herself, in all her intelligence, intensity and occasional superciliousness.
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The aggressive mayhem often comes close to Mark Millar territory, but his cinematic characters spell out their contempt for the audience, and their superciliousness makes them unpleasant company.
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The president gave people — not only his vociferous "base" but also people in Main Street America — leadership that rejected the superciliousness of the left, which tells people how to live their lives.
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Among his players, there was a strand of concern that his illustrious playing career with Manchester United, Everton and England — as well as his coaching stints at Old Trafford and Valencia — might translate into superciliousness.
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He was a charismatic antihero in a comedy of manners, an anti-Darcy who proves to be exactly what he is on the surface, and whose superciliousness is bone-deep and directed at everyone in the world around him.
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Sir Humphrey's personal characteristics include his complicated sentences, his cynical views of government, and his snobbery and superciliousness. Hacker's attributes include occasional indecisiveness, and a tendency to launch into ludicrous Churchillian speeches. Bernard is prone to linguistic pedantry. All characters are able to switch to a completely opposite opinion in seconds when convenient.
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Despite his open protests and subterraneous counter-mining, war was actually declared against Sweden in 1675, and his subsequent policy seemed so obscure and hazardous to those who did not possess the clue to the perhaps purposely tangled skein, that the numerous enemies whom his arrogance and superciliousness had raised up against him, resolved to destroy him.
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In the Old Testament, the "hubris is overweening pride, superciliousness or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution or nemesis". Proverbs 16:18 states: "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall".Andrew Fellows, 2019, Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene. The word hubris as used in the New Testament parallels the Hebrew word pasha, meaning "transgression".
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Every one who met him for the first time expected him to have the airs and superciliousness of a spoiled boy. This notion was quickly lost after the first glimpse one had of Quentin. Gay, hearty and absolutely square in everything he said or did, Quentin Roosevelt was one of the most popular fellows in the group. We loved him purely for his own natural self.
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In her review in the New York Times, Janet Maslin called the film "a broad but effectively intimate portrait" and added, "Playing the large dandyish writer with obvious gusto, Stephen Fry looks uncannily like Wilde and presents an edgy mixture of superciliousness and vulnerability. Though the film suffers a case of quip-lash thanks to its tireless Wildean witticisms ... Fry's warmly sympathetic performance finds the gentleness beneath the wit.""'Wilde': Antics That Had Victorians Only Half- Amused". NYTimes.com. Retrieved 9 May 2011.
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She treats the rest as badly, then runs away. Saturn leaves his throne at the end of the first act, pleased with the mess that he has made. Jupiter assumes the throne at the start of Act II. He inspires Pandora with ambition, vanity, and superciliousness – so much so that she obtains his sceptre and tosses it to Juno when the queen of the gods comes in search of her husband (he hides himself in a cloud). Pandora inflicts her pride upon the hapless shepherds: she orders them to behead a wild boar, promising her glove to the man who brings the trophy to her.
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One German Jewish reviewer, the Berlin banker Heinrich Meyer- Cohn, wrote that The Foundations was "bad, unclear, and illogical in its train of thought and unpleasing in style, full of false modesty and genuine superciliousness, full of real ignorance and false affectation of learning".Field (1981), p. 231 German Jewish groups like the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens and the Verein zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus repeatedly issued statements in the early 20th century that the popularity of The Foundations was a major source of concern for them, noting that Die Grundlagen had caused a major increase in anti-Semitism with many German Jews now finding themselves the objects of harassment and sometimes violence.Field (1981), pp.
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The principal criticism was that the extensive removal of varnish, which was used in the 19th century to protect the surface of paintings but which darkened and discoloured over time, may have resulted in the loss of "harmonising" glazes added to the paintings by the artists themselves. The opposition to Ruhemann's techniques was led by Ernst Gombrich, a professor at the Warburg Institute who in later correspondence with a restorer described being treated with "offensive superciliousness" by the National Gallery. A 1947 commission concluded that no damage had been done in the recent cleanings. George Bellows: Men of the Docks (1912) The National Gallery's attribution of paintings has been disputed on occasion.
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Instead of > detaching the Army Post Office with a sufficient number of clerks and with a > couple of carts, drivers and horses for the conveyance of mails they were > referred to Naval agents and the superciliousness of young gentlemen > attached to the Staff. Soon after the publication of this news article two more Assistant Army Postmasters, Mr Sissons and Henry Mellersh, plus seven sorters were despatched from London. They arrived in Constantinople on 5 February 1855. Mr Mellersh was to play a significant part in the establishment of a dedicated Army Postal Service, as he was to become a member of a joint War Office and Post Office committee set up in 1876 to investigate the viability of such post service.
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However his quarrel with Dalhousie was not over. In his posthumously published 'Defects, Civil and Military of the Indian Government' (Westerton, 1853) he detected and condemned the growing superciliousness of the English in India towards the Indians; 'The younger race of Europeans keep aloof from Native officers … How different this from the spirit which actuated the old men of Indian renown,' he wrote. He proposed that British officers should learn the language of the natives and that native officers be appointed as ADCs and Companions of the Bath. ‘The Eastern intellect is great, and supported by amiable feelings’, he wrote, ‘and the Native officers have a full share of Eastern daring, genius and ambition; but to nourish these qualities they must be placed on a par with European officers.’Napier, C., Defects, p.
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After Hemenway’s return to the United States in 1941, she experienced a great degree of culture shock stemming from the differences between Eastern and Western ways of life. In her medical journals, she comments on the struggle for a better quality of life among those in China versus the fixation on self- indulgence and complacency found in most Americans. Moreover, Hemenway was troubled by a perceived lack of American concern for those who were struggling in Asia, as she feared that superciliousness had replaced human compassion in the minds of many Americans. She maintained that hardship and destruction, though painful, must be faced by major nations in order to restore equality on an international level, saying “Physical deprivation, hardship, bereavement—these may not be evils but blessings if they initiate constructive change.” Hemenway, R. (1977).
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Yad, Hilkhot Talmud Torah 1:11 The most sincere but influential opponent, whose comments are printed parallel to virtually all editions of the Mishneh Torah, was Rabbi Abraham ben David of Posquières (Raavad III, France, 12th century). Many critics were especially bitter against the new methods which he had employed, and the very peculiarities which he had regarded as merits in his work failed to please his opponents because they were innovations. Thus they reproached him because he wrote in Judeo-Arabic instead of in the customary Talmudic idiom, because he departed from the Talmudic order and introduced a division and arrangement of his own, and because he dared to sometimes decide according to the Tosefta and the Jerusalem Talmud as against the Babylonian Talmud. Especially sharp was the blame heaped upon Maimonides because he neglected to cite his sources; this was considered an evidence of his superciliousness, since it made it difficult, if not absolutely impossible, for scholars to verify his statements, and compelled them to follow his decisions absolutely.
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