What is "hauteur"

Usage examples of "hauteur".

But when I compare him with the Balzacian hauteur and the preposterous posing of many of our Fleet Street decadent geniuses, I feel a movement of the blood which declares that perhaps there are worse things than War.

Arms akimbo, shoulders erect, her head raised in a hauteur that suited the disdain her features registered, Mata Safi began a slow tour of the niches where the prisoners were segregated.

Sulla, looking to where Catulus Caesar was talking with obviously furious hauteur to his brother the censor and to Quintus Mucius Scaevola, who looked unhappy.

The landlady wore a look of aggrieved hauteur, and when she spoke her accent was more refined and wholly diphthongal than usual.

En été ils se placent ordinairement dans des lieux découverts près de quelque rivière ou de quelque étang, et s'il n'y en a point, aux environs de quelque puits: en hyver ils cherchent les montagnes et les collins, ou du moins ils s'établissent derrière quelque hauteur, où ils soient à convert du vent de Nord, qui est en ce pays-là extrêmement froid.

In 1849 his second son, Nevil, a singularly repellent person who seemed to combine the surliness of Philip Jermyn with the hauteur of the Brightholmes, ran away with a vulgar dancer, but was pardoned upon his return in the following year.

Have assumed air of dignified hauteur with Daniel and not messaged, flirted or slept with him for three weeks.

The unpleasant part of all this is that the young women he so condescendingly selects as partners for the dance greet him with seeming rapture, though in their hearts they must feel humiliated by his languid hauteur, and many older people beam upon him almost fawningly if he unbends so far as to throw them a careless, disdainful word!