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Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach take turns transforming into floating marketplaces — docks converted to catwalks, hulls polished to reflective arrogance, sales reps who can quote fuel burn like yacht owners care about costs.—
Eric Barton,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026 -
College football is awash in problems, including the Big Ten’s unrivaled arrogance, and its never-ending list of demands that would make Notre Dame blush.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Jan. 2026
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Love this imperiousness aimed at doctors from a hospital bed.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
21 Nov. 2025
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However, in the wrong hands, being silent can signal disdain and superciliousness.—
Matteo Atti,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Pearl revels in wickedness, presenting a literary world in which a successful writer’s haughtiness is both encouraged and rewarded.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2025
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The administration’s actions also aren’t being met with universal disdain by Colorado politicians.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
13 Jan. 2026
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The Bears pulled off a remarkable 31-27 victory in the NFC wild-card round, taking down their bitter rivals, and have made their disdain for the Packers well-known.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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On others, the BBC remains comfortably ahead of YouTube, but for the broadcaster to be supplanted on even a single metric is notable, given its decades-long dominance in Britain.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
13 Jan. 2026
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Behavioral psychology calls this coercive control, maintaining dominance through unpredictability, dependency, and psychological pressure rather than overt force.—
Rabbi Bruce D. Forman,
Sun Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2026
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Rosamund Pike, playing the spirit of loving filthy lucre over life itself, elevates a standard villain through the high timing of her theatrical hauteur.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
11 Nov. 2025
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The kitchen borrowed the ingredient worship of Chez Panisse, but not its reverence for simplicity; the fancy culture-mash pizza of Spago, but not its Eurocentric hauteur; the cheffy precision of the French Laundry, but not its fussy formality.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2025
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Just an approachable person without any pretension or condescension — just a true person.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Dec. 2025
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Amos sketches Pskov’s residents with deep interest and sympathy, yet without condescension or sentimentality.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Dec. 2025
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