How to Use hauteur in a Sentence

hauteur

noun

• Putting him and his wife and his children inside my world was the worst hauteur.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• Mike Bloomberg’s is the rarefied hauteur of the technocrat.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2020
• Beneath the chilly hauteur of Levy's Elsa lies a world of fear, sadness and confusion.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Through it all, however, the gal has retained a sort of grand hauteur, even while prat-falling into a bush.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2022
• England’s secretary of state for the American colonies has a hint of hauteur about him, but also a sense of doubt.
  — Lynne Cheney, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2017
• Red-glass lanterns on the facade hint at happy hanky-panky, and the warm welcome at reception is the first clue that this hotel has ditched the hauteur.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• And leave it to her to do so with a hauteur that belies her giddiness — a holdover, maybe, from her early career as a model, starting in high school.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2022
• Susan Beresford is of course the love interest: a willowy, auburn-haired heiress whose hauteur and needling humor mask a tender heart.
  — Alessandra Stanley, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
• Or of Cordelia, played by Stampley with regal hauteur but little of the love and tenderness Lear’s youngest daughter feels.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
• Cats are not thought to be such selfless creatures, what with their hauteur and froideur and general aura of disregard.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• But there was something about her, a bemused hauteur or suppressed hilarity -- plus that flame of hair.
  — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2019
• At the more affluent end of the spectrum, a prostitute can communicate a chilly hauteur.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• Her Elizabeth has conquered her emotions, at great cost and in the name of duty — and now here come the expressive ’60s and ’70s, in which she and her family are suddenly seen as the faces of stuffy hauteur.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2019
• To one side, Louis Garrel, the brooding, dark-eyed poster boy of cinematic hauteur, was vaping in thoughtful solitude.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017
• Andrés announces, with Wildean hauteur, when his friends mock his horrible boyfriend’s workout Instas.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• It’s pushed along by his stout acoustic guitar strumming and David Rea’s sleek fingerpicking accents, which reinforce the lyric’s hauteur.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 2 May 2023
• Despite this hauteur—or perhaps because of it—many of us cannot resist bringing these regal creatures into our homes, litter boxes and all.
  — Julia Calderone, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• Bach wears his imperial hauteur like a winter overcoat.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 17 June 2016
• Jagger is, in fact, distracted by a solo career; the other band members aren’t happy about that, or about his growing hauteur after almost two decades of managing the band’s affairs.
  — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2021
• Although the Beast is an entirely digital creation, based in part on Jean Cocteau’s groundbreaking 1946 silent film, Stevens imbues his hauteur and fanged hostility with pathos and arch humor.
  — Ann Hornaday, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2017
• Desperate and greedy for information, Norma over-enunciates, her words taut with sarcasm and hauteur.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Light, as a tremulous Stepford wife watching her world unravel with each glass of wine, does an enormous amount of acting with very few lines, and McTeer plays her imperious critic with casual, note-perfect hauteur.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2022
• Her best quality is her remarkable work ethic; her worst is a five-way tie between crankiness, pettiness, self-indulgence, hauteur and, of course, hackery.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 28 May 2021
• Which designer would be chosen to dress our generation’s exemplar striver, to translate his hauteur and his anguish to silhouettes?
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• Yanagihara’s dismissive portrayal of these efforts is reminiscent of V.S. Naipaul in its hauteur.
  — Siddhartha Deb, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
• Lisa Howard endows Shiz headmistress Madame Morrible with an enjoyably withering hauteur, wringing every ounce of performative juice out of the character.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
• Garner all but disappears behind Anna’s thick Russian-German accent and chunky designer glasses, wielding an air of hauteur like an impenetrable shield.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2022
• Taylor-Joy affects an appropriate hauteur, though one that, alas, too often solidifies into masklike blankness.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2020
• The actor nicely captures Higgins’s peevish hauteur and invincible self-assurance.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023

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