hauteur formal

But the old woman's hauteur had given way to fear.

There was more than a note of hauteur in her voice this time.

"That is completely different," the man said with some hauteur.

"Of course, I cannot expect you to understand," he said with forced hauteur.

There were impatience and a world of hauteur in his voice.

With her, moreover, class came without a trace of hauteur.

She was a teenager, with teenage hauteur, living in the now.

The hauteur fell from the man's face like a load of bricks.

He drew himself up and faced me with frozen hauteur.

But his hauteur offered a new and even witty dimension.

Forty minutes into the flight, however, some of his hauteur began to fade.

Had I been a subaltern, he might have kept up a higher degree of hauteur.

Stiffly, with all the hauteur of his class, he marched from the room.

Those words have come ringing down the centuries as the height of hauteur.

He paused and looked down on them with disdainful hauteur.

The young king, in adopting a tone of hauteur with him, did not forward his purpose.

Though terrified, she put up some show of hauteur.

"Why, I am perfectly well," he announced with a degree of hauteur.

But the overall feeling is one of ease, space and softness without much hauteur.

She made matters worse by her hauteur in court.

She had none of the usual hauteur of the dead.

She was startled almost out of her professional hauteur.

She gave her expression just the right combination of hauteur and helpless female.

The small frown on her face turned into a mask of feminine hauteur.

She put away that thought, anxious to counter her father's barely civil hauteur.