He is an unassuming man, devoid of arrogance, a few years too old to be called a prodigy. |
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Now, in the epoch of multiculturalism, the offenders are accused of being Eurocentric or of exhibiting cultural arrogance. |
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Combining dourness and humour, sentimentality and hard-headedness, arrogance and tolerance, every situation is redeemed by laughter. |
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By arrogance I don't mean pride, for there is no harm in being proud of what we have achieved in all fields of human activity. |
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The whole culture of greed, arrogance, cronyism and corruption was marvellously encapsulated in that instructive episode. |
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The official media has stressed the culpability of the American side and the arrogance of its leaders. |
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She sails into the waves flanked by arrogance, haughtiness and false power. |
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The arrogance that Dawkins displayed is perhaps the root of all the hostility we see against science. |
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They perceive haughtiness, arrogance and all sorts of faults in people who are really totally indistinguishable from themselves. |
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Allegedly due to the arrogance and impatience of the male operators, telephone exchanges initially got lousy ratings for customer service. |
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There is never any occasion for colonial arrogance or Eurocentrism or hegemonizing the discourse of the Other, for being judgmental or elitist. |
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The arrogance is masterful as Hicks struts, peacock like, around the stage, posing and displaying his wounded body. |
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They go against armed forces numbering 120,000, armed with AK 47s and strutting with pride and arrogance. |
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Russ waddled in a feeble stride as the daughter strutted with a youthful arrogance. |
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Rather than this being understood as outdated elitism, or arrogance, this can be read more subtly. |
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He's like Alan but with better hair and without the sneering, punchable arrogance. |
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That arrogance is also one of the reasons there will be a change of Government. |
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The dictionary definition of arrogance suggests overbearing behavior based on inappropriate views. |
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When you have an inbred arrogance, you are undoubtedly going to appear overbearing and rude. |
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At last, Arlan nodded in agreement, leaning back against the tree and biting his lip, allowing his pain to overcloud his arrogance. |
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This arrogance does not play well in middle America, as the briefest exposure to any radio chat show will quickly confirm. |
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The story of a change in a character from arrogance, crabbedness, to that of humility always has appeal. |
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This is arrogance at best, but worst of all, you're hurting a poor old man's feelings. |
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Overscrupulousness is born of pride and arrogance rather than true holiness. |
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They have a tremendous sense of perspective and although they may be a bit cheeky with it, they never do arrogance. |
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There is a lot of support in the town and they are cheesed off with the arrogance of the Liberal Democrats. |
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Although he was an academic, he did not appear to have the arrogance and overweening sense of self-importance that some of his kind possess. |
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No animal should suffer or die for human arrogance, greed, vanity or gluttony. |
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It could stay holy, sacrosanct, totally uncorrupted and virginal if it wasn't for us humans washing everything over with arrogance. |
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In his gallery of caricatures are the British who brought with them imperialistic arrogance and a powerful sense of cultural superiority. |
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It dwarfs all the other buildings in the area and exudes an air of bureaucratic intransigence and implacable arrogance. |
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In the Polonaise, Gourari raps out the opening chords defiantly, and the main melody is shaped with both arrogance and tenderness. |
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Driven by hubris, his judgment skewed by arrogance, he had imagined his power extended over the very forces of nature. |
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Military arrogance and political hubris put Germany on the path to a war she could have won only if these expectations had proved true. |
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But here his own hubris, his own kind of arrogance, in how to handle this matter prevailed. |
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His enemies prefer to see him as a victim, once again, of his own arrogance, of hubris, and an addiction to taking himself too seriously. |
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Both were humbled by health difficulties and the consequences of their arrogance. |
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He shows all the signs of arrogance over an issue which deeply divides our country. |
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And people said left wing media was doomed because of arrogance and paternalism! |
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Another profession, the medical, has just been criticised for arrogance, paternalism and complacency. |
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It was the arrogance he emitted when running the team, his hard dealing with local businesses, and his entitlement attitude. |
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He had hated the Marines' cocksure arrogance, all the more infuriating because it was so clearly justified. |
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His cocksure self-belief, some might say, looks like arrogance and gets up more than a few nostrils on the grand prix circuit. |
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The troubles and disasters the country has met do not stem from threats by others, but from its own cocksureness and arrogance. |
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Indeed, as I have wondered elsewhere, how long will Americans endure the arrogance and ignorance of their own technically illiterate politicians? |
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Last week's conflict was provoked by the arrogance of a Prime Minister impatient with the parliamentary process. |
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He loathes food critics, loves a fight and taunts women with his arrogance and charm. |
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Faced with such arrogance is it any wonder that savvy consumers are switching to screw caps? |
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Nerd social maladroitness, rather than arrogance, is the key to understanding this bachelor's behavior. |
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The former attitude mollifies arrogance and conceit while the latter prevents excessive despondency, de-motivation and self-pity. |
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A Labour Party member, man and boy, I am horrified to see so many of my colleagues vote with ignorance and arrogance in equal measure. |
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When these feelings are free from national arrogance and conceit and imperial ambitions, there is nothing wrong or objectionable about them. |
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This is the arrogance of a government who thinks they've got the election in the bag. |
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Now its politicians are being brought into disrepute by incompetence, arrogance and ambition. |
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For we now have a conceited Government which in its monumental arrogance can brook no opposition. |
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The recent fiasco over parking charges has demonstrated their arrogance and incompetence. |
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His arrogance of manner and insensitivity on matters of social concern made him an unpredictable colleague in an era of populist politics. |
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My wish to express a wider, considered, view of playwriting and dramaturgy probably just came across as arrogance. |
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As it happened, the arrogance of the faction sparked a backlash, resulting in the dismissal of the group's leader, John. |
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He was casually dressed, his speech was mediocre in delivery, but most tellingly, his body language conveyed a cool arrogance. |
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It is a valuable and articulate polemic against the glibness of liberal internationalism, its ideological license and its bouts of arrogance. |
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Inevitably he has his critics, those who identify a Teutonic arrogance in him. |
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Putting issues in the cupboard only allow them to fester into diseased debates over injustice or elite arrogance. |
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The report does, however, portray a torrid tale of arrogance and incompetence by the company's management. |
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He's irreverent to an extreme, glib, folksy, with a disarming arrogance that drives his non-supporters nuts. |
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People of the world are rebuffed by the resulting arrogance and threatening postures, and peace remains elusive. |
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The confident swagger and self-assurance that helped him win the US Open turned to arrogance and started working against him. |
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It's a personal opinion, a reaction to literary arrogance and snobbishness. |
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Quickly this confidence grew into the arrogance of success and they became so comfortable they didn't even notice what was happening. |
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His arrogance, egoism and desperate need for womanising, are as well known as his genius. |
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A heart full of false pride, vanity and arrogance has no room for wisdom, so it will remain lost in the darkness. |
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His overlordship sprouted a swiftly waxing arrogance that denied any superior. |
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However, it will not alter the arrogance and meritocracy that is inherent in party politics. |
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Instead, he tried to use his bully-boy manner and arrogance to tough it out. |
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It is most certainly distorted by the prism of your own arrogance and ignorance. |
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He has a piece in today's Washington Post in which he argues that the besetting sin of today's journalists is arrogance. |
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Stories of his arrogance, sarcasm and general priggishness have been doing the rounds in media circles for years. |
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It is rare to see such unusual gifts of public speaking accompanied by such a complete lack of arrogance or pretension. |
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That was a phenomenal mistake and his own presumptuous arrogance led to his downfall. |
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We rejected the brutality, the propaganda, the misbegotten wars, the imperial arrogance. |
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It is clear from his arrogance and boundless conceit that he has never faced serious opposition from the working class. |
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I don't think the public has yet forgiven the press for that episode of arrogance and premature triumphalism. |
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An attitude of arrogance and the kind of insufferable self-confidence of that Cardinal is very much out of tune with the Church and its mission. |
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They provide the checks and balances that guard against the arrogance of power. |
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In their arrogance they assumed that no landlord would ever try to turn them out. |
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If this is cultural arrogance, it has perhaps some of its roots in insecurity and takes a tangible form in architectural monumentalism. |
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For all our collective arrogance, we are constantly blindsided by something called the future. |
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Their views are the result of a fallen and sinful human nature, of rampant egotism and arrogance, and nothing more. |
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The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seem slightly silly in retrospect. |
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It was often mistaken by both friends and enemies for an insufferable arrogance. |
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There is a brittle arrogance, and a seemingly unbreachable wall of utter disinterest. |
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Enforcers in full-face helmets were everywhere, striding through the crowd with arrogance born of unchallenged supremacy. |
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The music was what counted but the cockiness, the combination of arrogance and provocation, the sheer effrontery was thrilling to witness. |
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Not only have you joined the ranks of the morally obtuse, but you have done so with an arrogance that would astound a mullah issuing a fatwa. |
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The vain arrogance of the literati and Bohemian artists dismisses the activities of the businessman as unintellectual moneymaking. |
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But it's a serious joke, a challenge to the arrogance of universalistic systems everywhere. |
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As ever, his arrogance and ignorance grated on everyone who cannot abide him, and left those who adore him in raptures. |
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He did not lack confidence, indeed he oozed it as now he oozes sweat, but it was a confidence born of ambition, not arrogance. |
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Tellingly, Namath, Allen, and Robertson all criticize the unpolished arrogance of the modern athlete, just as they were criticized before. |
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Your arrogance, presumption, and ego come through very clearly in this message. |
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It is all about imperial arrogance unschooled in worldliness, unfettered either by competence or experience. |
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He sullied his already dwindling credibility with an exhibition of arrogance, bad taste, and egotism that made for queasy viewing. |
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Of course, that little fact obviously doesn't get rid of their natural arrogance. |
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It would have been the height of arrogance, presumption, everything my mother specifically taught me not to do. |
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There's a certain arrogance and authority embedded in it that's necessary for the style, but it's not my cup of tea. |
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It is their arrogance that guarantees their failures will repeat ad infinitum. |
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I cannot presume to have the arrogance to tell someone how they should go about finding the balances in their own lives. |
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Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history. |
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Lady Catherine is one of the main offenders, her airs, arrogance and pride are fuelled by other characters like Mr Collins. |
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That characterization epitomizes the arrogance and condescension of anyone who would presume to understand and speak for all of us. |
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It is hard not to be carried away by the madness of the Grand galop chromatique or by the arrogance of the Sixth Hungarian Rhapsody. |
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He is the prince of a southern political family, but without unusual arrogance or over-the-top airs of entitlement. |
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Finally there's the problem of arrogance, of the almost doltish clumsiness with which the powerful and confident can pursue their goals. |
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It's this arrogance or, really, out-of-touchness, this particular sociopathology, that helps create the freak show. |
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On a basic level I understand Mr. Lynch's statement but find that it reeks of arrogance. |
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They develop a level of arrogance and control freakery that in the end can only be tackled through the ballot box. |
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Nonetheless, popular songwriters ridiculed what they perceived as the inherent dogmatism and moral arrogance of these traditions. |
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His arrogance and ineptitude were on fine display Tuesday, when he dickered over the word torture. |
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The arrogance of power was the subtext in the other great medical story of the year. |
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We are resented for our arrogance in assuming that people should speak English. |
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There is no hint of arrogance in this statement, and all of the facts seem to back his viewpoint. |
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In my opinion this sort of arrogance deserves to be rewarded by denying parole. |
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I may be completely wrong, but I detect a faint whiff of arrogance and even racism in the Economist article. |
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It is an appalling and chilling chronicle of arrogance, complacency and collusion. |
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Their arrogance and dogmatism in pursuit of their political struggle led at one point to a kind of reckless disregard for life. |
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The audacity and arrogance of that move has not been lost on the people of New Zealand. |
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From this side of the Channel, one can easily pour scorn on Gallic arrogance. |
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Gone is the shameless arrogance and empire building of the previous incumbents. |
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This sums up their entire campaign, one of breath-taking arrogance wrapped up in feel-good bromides. |
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He is a typical city boy, red braces, no socks and plenty of arrogance. |
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This arrogance and contempt for public opinion must be curbed. |
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The pontiff blasts the selfishness, arrogance and detachment of the cardinals in Rome. |
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People who know him speak of a relaxed and charming man, remarkably free of arrogance or unpleasantness. |
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He developed a reputation for principled independence that others sometimes saw as arrogance. |
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In the meantime, their hysteria and cluelessness and arrogance are hurting them more than the attacks are. |
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His arrogance and attempts to whitewash the criminal activity of this government exacerbate the problem of terrorism and puts Australia at greater risk of retaliation. |
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A respected writer and academic, he drops names like confetti, judges everyone, hates to lose at anything and has an arrogance that knows no bounds. |
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Such style and courtesy, and great drinks, are a world away from the arrogance and snobbery of modern day party bars which invariably close after six months. |
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If only for the arrogance and self-belief it will armour you with. |
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I'm thinking maybe it's some form of authoritarian arrogance. |
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Tangling with the ancients in this way takes a certain herculean arrogance. |
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We skied over the sea ice, bridged the leads and clambered over the sastrugi, and my arrogance and incompetence lost me a finger-end to frostbite. |
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Until past mid-century, pastors of this congregation usually had brief tenures and some reflected the youthful immaturity and arrogance of W. B. Johnson. |
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The same brash arrogance and impetuousness applied to criminal cases rather than flame wars has had real consequences. |
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I think there's too much secretiveness and arrogance of power. |
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We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist. |
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One should also learn to avoid non-divine traits as ostentation, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, pride and excessive attachment to worldly possessions. |
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The government that repeatedly declares that an educated society is its goal has to avoid the self-conceit and arrogance coming from holding power. |
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It is this core belief that also gives his Superman a slight swagger and a tinge of arrogance, but also makes for a performance of surprising depth. |
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Instead, I shall bask in all this glory and hope it brings me new found arrogance, snobbery and untold riches so I can retire to Pismo Beach and be a happy miser. |
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I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses. |
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The raid, which failed, was followed by a lengthy and inconclusive inquiry by a select committee of the Commons, at which Rhodes acted with unconcealed contempt and arrogance. |
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There are more pitfalls to the bootstrap mentality than just arrogance. |
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Of course, in your natural arrogance, you believe everything is essential. |
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The floods in Britain in autumn 2000 were blamed on man's arrogance and human interference in nature. |
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Capitalism, colonialism, neocolonialism, Marxism, literary ignorance, cultural arrogance, fear, and just about every other form of human perversity become the enemy. |
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The sackings follow the release of an independent review into the affair, which has uncovered a culture of arrogance and buck-passing at the nation's biggest bank. |
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In all the annals of arrogance for which this Government and that Secretary of State have become notorious this utter display of contempt for Parliament bulks large. |
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Humor, after all, is a social corrective against arrogance, ignorance and pretension. |
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Their charming arrogance suddenly sounded a little spiteful. |
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Each section revolves around a different theme, together revealing the power and arrogance of political leaders in cahoots with corporate capital. |
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Trouble is, such arrogance can lead just as quickly to a player heading off down a road to nowhere. |
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That's normal when you're famous and your albums are full of self-promotional rhymes, arrogance and vulgarities. |
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To have those rights overridden by such ridiculous nonsense and sheer arrogance is unacceptable. |
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He drives a sports car and behaves with the arrogance of a once famous person. |
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His eyes were a deep chocolate brown and sparkled to with vivacity and arrogance. |
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Hopefully there will be none because everyone else will be gobsmacked at your arrogance. |
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The chilling and insensitive arrogance of this remark is breathtaking. |
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Greed, envy, hatred, selfishness, vanity, and arrogance are all negative traits which must be totally eliminated. |
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Mobile-phone companies have inherited this arrogance, building their business models around nickel-and-diming customers. |
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The media's role in exposing his unfortunate behaviour and upstart arrogance has been highly commendable. |
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Swagger and arrogance is all very well but until that huge European Cup is hoisted aloft it is merely bluster and bravado. |
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What gets up our noses is the brass-bound arrogance and hubris of the pirates who now run your system. |
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It has something to do with arrogance and materialism and the deadening effect of pop culture on the collective brainpan. |
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But most of all, the whole project simply stank of arrogance. |
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His crushing critiques, if not born of arrogance, have at times been delivered with a haughtiness that practically swaggers across the page or the airwaves. |
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Yet in Europe, and in particular France, he continues to be seen as an icily cool champion, his real thoughts hidden behind an intimidating mask of arrogance. |
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By depicting 1812 as a time when all Russians were comrades with a single goal, it expressed the idea of Russian nationality without arrogance or chauvinism. |
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The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale. |
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Despite the homespun image it cultivates in its ads, it operates with an arrogance and avarice that would make the multinationals blush and John D. Rockefeller envious. |
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The nerve and arrogance of the food industry shocks and horrifies me. |
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All at once, unattractive qualities such as insularity, parochialism and downright arrogance were introduced into the previously contented continental mix. |
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But the arrogance that enables him to be such a reliable shooter in the clutch prevents him from countenancing the fact that he's a defensive liability. |
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Their impunity to prosecution and the lightness of the sentences they do get when they are caught is a joke and has bred an arrogance that makes my stomach churn. |
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So I don't fault him for his toughness and perhaps his arrogance. |
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Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. |
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The secret to marital bliss eludes the Western civilization, although arrogance and conceit keep it from admitting fundamental flaws and looking elsewhere for solutions. |
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She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience. |
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By 1879, his arrogance and conceit having ruined a lucrative relationship with his wealthy patron, Frederick Leyland, Whistler's fortunes were at an all-time low. |
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But his sureness and occasional contriteness stayed just the right side of arrogance and has probably bought him time with disgruntled party delegates. |
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He was known as the epitome of arrogance, a man with the highest regard for his own art, an iron will and a taste for what St Peter would regard as the sins of the flesh. |
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Her voice taunted him in mock arrogance, but he could tell from the hint of darkness under her eyes that though she meant it flippantly, she was very tired. |
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It's the same arrogance that cost them the General Election. |
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But the arrogance that enables Cassell to be such a reliable shooter in the clutch prevents him from countenancing the fact that he's a defensive liability. |
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Whitford especially is a comic gift to any director, capable of the sort of arrogance, deadpan humor and blank-faced terror that Bill Murray has perfected. |
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Which will probably teach me something about arrogance and presumption. |
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Call this presumptuous arrogance or call it faith in our selves. |
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But for the good of all of mankind, the arrogance that God is partial to one particular grouping and hence they have a God-given right to be right is not right. |
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The book seems to be about the fear of death, the culture of death, the arrogance and puniness of men and women in the face of death, and even the defeat of death. |
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It is unjustified arrogance and inverted elitism to think otherwise. |
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In an incredible display of arrogance and disdain for the fans, we had to search for our umbrellas among piles of them left in heaps on the floor. |
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At college, Peirce earned a reputation for arrogance, brilliance, iconoclasm, dangerous mood swings, and dissipation, behaviors owing in part to neurological pathologies. |
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In presenting the main outlines of the orthodox theory, he is refreshingly free of the arrogance and simplistic dogmatism that seems to permeate the subject. |
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They tend to resort to non-argument methods like non-validated dismissiveness, arrogance, viciousness, dogpiling, lies, contempt, mockery, vulgarity. |
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I haven't seen such raw arrogance, such disdain for democratic principle, such ham-handed use of power, since J.R. and Dallas bit the dust. |
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The nutmeg as Mills tried to shield the ball at the corner flag was a sublime example of justified arrogance. |
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In private, Sir David is much less buttoned up than he seems in public, his reputation for arrogance and pomposity unduly harsh. |
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In the center of this unweeded and naturally manicured garden, he stood, wearing that nauseatingly saccharine with arrogance grin. |
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Despite his mystical belief in his luck, despite his arrogance and ruthlessness, Sulla never aimed at permanent tyranny. |
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With the arrogance of a medieval bishop, Dobson assumes the power to proclaim non-negotiable demands to public officials. |
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The poor servant placed a handkerchief to her eyes and began to weep, for Dolly's arrogance toward her proved fletiferous. |
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The personal determination that allowed Denis to achieve so much in the political realm could sometimes harden into obstinacy and arrogance. |
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Patients coming from different areas of twin cities complained that the staff on front desks treated them poorly and showed arrogance. |
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But I use it defensively, that kind of authority or arrogance or indefensive entitlement. |
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The idea never left the laboratories and proving grounds of Cold War America, he says, but the hubris and arrogance still chill the spine. |
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The culture in the Congress has become elitist and arrogance grows from it. |
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Their energy comes from reckless consumption, unlimited self-confidence and unrestricted arrogance and egocentrism. |
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It is very likely that Zhu Gaoxu's arrogance, well detailed in many historic texts, offended the emperor. |
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The lawyer who refrains from arrogance, pomposity, and unnecessary squabbling and disputatiousness is well on his or her way. |
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The most evident flaw that Odysseus sports is that of his arrogance and his pride, or hubris. |
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This perkiness translated into arrogance, carelessness and, ultimately, stupidity. |
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It is unclear if Berlusconi is simply oblivious to his arrogance and obnoxiousness, or if he purposely likes to insult people. |
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So many obliviously swamped with the same arrogance believing the world thinks just like you. |
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But, as Burt argues persuasively in this book, the reasons go far deeper than medical arrogance. |
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It is, contrary to your own belief, that blinkered arrogance which has led you to the dock today. |
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These weasel words are scant consolation for those whose lives were destroyed by his arrogance. |
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Armed with her utter faith in the goodness she must stand unabashed before the arrogance that scoffs at the power of spirit. |
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This is a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness. |
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Although his arrogance had slowed the campaign, he was a brilliant general in the field, and his loss was a major blow to the allied campaign. |
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Too many millions of people, watching their telescreens, had seen his unpardonable arrogance. |
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She was young and beautiful, with dark, oriental features, and a bearing which aimed at supremity of arrogance. |
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It's less of a reach if he's a bullying, gun-slinging sorehead laughing at his crime with all the arrogance we've come to loathe in the bubble world of sports superstardom. |
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Jabez rides through the fields on his sleek new horse, watching his neighbors harvest his crops. He shows a certain condescension toward them which is akin to arrogance. |
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Gaveston's arrogance and power as Edward's favourite provoked discontent both among the barons and the French royal family, and Edward was forced to exile him. |
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The songs catch all the arrogance, messiness, in-jokes and carelessness of youth in a way not heard since Gomez's Bring It On, another great debut. |
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These numpties were simply displaying an impatience, arrogance and disregard for other road users that is witnessed all too commonly on our highways. |
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Now to me the arrogance comes not from the creationists but from the Dawkinites, cos who would reckon we are beyond and above the elements we are made from. |
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I trust this is the beginning of decisive action to limit the power and arrogance of Saddam Hussein,'' Dole told his audience of about 3,200 Legionnaires. |
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The south was industrializing faster and was more prosperous than the north, leading to resentment of northern arrogance and political domination. |
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Our challenging task is to know when doing right and feeling pride become overshadowed by the egocentrism and desire for self-promotion that are the symptoms of arrogance. |
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I was miffed at Rick for his behavior. I was miffed at the coach, not for his naivete of deafness, but for his arrogance, which converted his ignorance to stupidity. |
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Periodically they would convene impromptu two-minute hate sessions to compare notes on the arrogance and futility of philosophy and its claims on the territory of AI research. |
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Use of herself or himself in this way often indicates that the speaker attributes some degree of arrogance or selfishness to the person in question. |
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They are arrogance, comfort, hunger-less, play safe and incrementalism. |
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