King Richard the tyrant, the arrogant ruler of Chicago, the enemy of the masses - or so the national image of Richard J. Daley was often cast.

Jirel is the proud, tough, arrogant and beautiful ruler of her own domain - apparently somewhere in medieval France.

When he speaks again, it is in a new, broken, sweet voice; the arrogant ruler has become the humblest penitent.

More recently, however, he has often been portrayed as an arrogant and aloof ruler, lacking in political and administrative skills.

Like Ozymandias, Zoltab is an arrogant ruler whose hubris leads to his downfall.

Since then, Somerset has often been portrayed as an arrogant ruler, devoid of the political and administrative skills necessary for governing the Tudor state.

Politics have made this relatively obscure ancient drama, about an arrogant ruler who rushes to war, suddenly popular.

However, Caelum is a less than perfect ruler; insecure, arrogant and untried in this era of peace he struggles to maintain the balance between the various provinces as racial tensions rise.

Dharamdutt is the rich and arrogant "ruler" of that town.

In the past, arrogant rulers had thought to make the Confessors submit to their word.