How To Use Arrogance In A Sentence

As he ran past, the arquebusier shouted something about Susanoo, the kami of storms, and how he was punishing them for their arrogance. Blood Ninja II
Enforcers in full-face helmets were everywhere, striding through the crowd with arrogance born of unchallenged supremacy.
Querulousness, arrogance and an erratic streak alienated even his closest supporters, dooming his place in history.
Is it arrogance, stupidity or coaching that has led to this? Times, Sunday Times
As the path dipped in a fold in the field the barn rose higher in his vision to dominate the skyline and the arrogance became menace. A TROUT IN THE MILK

Yeah, this kind of unquestioning arrogance is why I'm an atheist. Report: Obama Meets Unconditionally With George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks
By arrogance I don't mean pride, for there is no harm in being proud of what we have achieved in all fields of human activity.
Rather than this being understood as outdated elitism, or arrogance, this can be read more subtly.
Time and again, Ike put up with the foibles, discourtesies, and downright arrogance of his official subor dinate, while at the same time insisting that his major decisions be carried out. General Ike
In Ionia, Pausanias' arrogance and lust for gold and women aroused widespread anger.
He has a reputation for rudeness and intellectual arrogance.
Profit is being put before patient safety with a breathtaking arrogance. Times, Sunday Times
It also commended Numsa members for continuing with the strike despite what it called the intransigence and arrogance of employers. ANC Daily News Briefing
We are now reaping the result of that arrogance. Times, Sunday Times
False humility and its obverse, arrogance, are equally unpleasant.
I'm thinking maybe it's some form of authoritarian arrogance.
Hubris, sometimes spelled hybris ancient Greek ὕβρις, is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution. Touchy, Touchy: Catching Up With "The Climb"
Hast thou forgotten thine arrogance and insolence and tyranny, and thy disregarding the due of goodfellowship and thy refusing to be advised by what the poet saith? The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
At base there is an enormous arrogance and an overweening ambition.
She is being reproached for conceit and arrogance, promoting expensive goods and products, which people can't afford to buy, targeting a wealthy audience.
Such fabulously unlikeable petulance, such hubris and arrogance. Times, Sunday Times
I think he has a Napoleonic concept of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.
Skilling's arrogance, belligerence and lack of contriteness under questioning made him a lightning rod for the rage generated after Enron sought bankruptcy protection in 2001.
Michael Pennington invests the Don's medical sidekick with exactly the right air of terrified loyalty, Oliver Cotton exudes white-suited arrogance as a dictatorial master baker, and Gavin Fowler lends his maltreated son a simmering, murderous resentment. The Syndicate – review | Michael Billington
Your arrogance, cockiness and incompetence in the accusations you hurl so carelessly is shocking. Think Progress » 60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002
an attitude of self-conceited arrogance
She was just a little offended by the implications in his words and was suddenly bored with his arrogance and decided to get rid all the noble-sounding, diplomatic and politic speeches.
He referred in letters home, when he first got here in May of 1831, to what he called the stinking arrogance of Americans, the fact that halfway through a conversation with you they insist on, you know, spitting some long stream of tobacco juice into the corner of the room or that they'd shake hands with you as though they'd known you for 10 years, and so on and so on. Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
No surprise, then, that the airline stands accused of corporate arrogance and customer neglect.
His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance.
In your descriptions of the personality of Moscow, you use the Russian word "naglost," which I believe translates as "an unseemly blend of arrogance and shamelessness. Scenes From Russian Life
Here, he again paints a distressing picture of a church in denial, a feudal hierarchy where obvious facts and urgent problems remain undiscussed out of loyalty, ambition, or arrogance.
Ironically, Mike Griffin possesses the knowledge required, but with an arrogance and lack political savvy that has left us equally bankrupt from a leadership point of view. Major General Jonathan Scott Gration Emerges as Possible Obama Choice for NASA Administrator - NASA Watch
As Levi points out, someone who is a casual or even first-time visitor might not recognize the dishonesty of a troll like dochunt, since he couches his trollery in puffed-up pseudo-academic arrogance. Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 8, 2010
In the effort to avoid the charge of elitist arrogance they are in danger of abandoning the only commodities which they have to sell: detachment and objective judgment.
But the arrogance that enables Cassell to be such a reliable shooter in the clutch prevents him from countenancing the fact that he's a defensive liability.
The story of a change in a character from arrogance, crabbedness, to that of humility always has appeal.
The nerve and arrogance of the food industry shocks and horrifies me.
Most often this behavior went by the name of arrogance, but the more discerning were likely to attribute it to insecurity.
One had self-belief that turned into arrogance, the other little piggy had none. Times, Sunday Times
It seems probable that both his social climbing and his arrogance were the effect of insecurity. Times, Sunday Times
But here his own hubris, his own kind of arrogance, in how to handle this matter prevailed.
The last Quebec Supermarket chain which displayed a similar ignorance and arrogance about Ontario that was called "Maxi Plus", bankrupted itself seeking to "colonize" Toronto. Metro Inc. plans to cancel Dominion Name in Ontario at the prospective expense of shareholders
To diGenova, it was one of the worst examples of prosecutors caring more about winning a case than finding justice, and further proof of what he called incredible arrogance of many lawyers in the department. ModerateVoters.org
The media's role in exposing his unfortunate behaviour and upstart arrogance has been highly commendable.
By depicting 1812 as a time when all Russians were comrades with a single goal, it expressed the idea of Russian nationality without arrogance or chauvinism.
Poverty is man-made; it results from the greed and arrogance of power, poor governance and ill-conceived policies.
The Cowboy's reply was in French, the tone contentious, touched with arrogance. CORMORANT
Just as the uni- prefix implies arrogance, multi- implies meekness, requiring Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, to come up with a toughening modifier: “assertive multilateralism.” The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Whether they are actuated by folly and anile devotion, or whether by arrogance and malice so that they alone may be held to possess the secrets of God, I know not: this much I do know, that I find in their writings nothing which has the air of a Divine secret, but only childish lucubrations. Theologico-Political Treatise
Now, here is the nub of the matter and the next - possibly cataclysmic - pitfall into which Labour, in its enduring arrogance and self-interest, may well fall.
For all that Netanyahu's innate arrogance and self-aggrandisement was laid bare by the contents of the nine-year-old recording, the collective shrugging of shoulders implies that few expected anything else from a man who has been boasting of his own political prowess throughout his tumultuous career. Why Binyamin Netanyahu tape is no real shocker
That they see such norms as so ‘obvious’ and non-debatable is the epitomy of colonial arrogance. Global Voices in English » Syria: Snag Hits Blogging Contest
Her voice taunted him in mock arrogance, but he could tell from the hint of darkness under her eyes that though she meant it flippantly, she was very tired.
He did not lack confidence, indeed he oozed it as now he oozes sweat, but it was a confidence born of ambition, not arrogance.
If only for the arrogance and self-belief it will armour you with.
Mr. FAZIO: I think there was I wouldn't use the term arrogance, but I think there was a presumption that their long-term majority was impregnable. NPR Topics: News
That characterization epitomizes the arrogance and condescension of anyone who would presume to understand and speak for all of us.
But this is the city which gave the world ‘Salaam Bombay,’ for it to salute the undying spirit of a metropolis which glories in its infinitely multipliable complementary contradictions: its grime and glitz, insularity and cosmopolitanism, arrogance and vulnerability, its indifference and unexpected caring.
Their arrogance and stupidity is also breathtaking. The Sun
She was young and beautiful, with dark, oriental features, and a bearing which aimed at supremity of arrogance. Veranilda
Arrogance is not an attractive trait, but surely it beats passive deference?
Both were humbled by health difficulties and the consequences of their arrogance.
Without any trace of arrogance and bombast he replies.
It was not the stage-managed arrogance of the Teuton jackboot or the Brigade of Guards. MOONDROP TO MURDER
Gathering himself, the acquisitor effected a posture of arrogance. Legacy
Gone is the shameless arrogance and empire building of the previous incumbents.
But arrogance may result in quick, unsanctioned action.
The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seems slightly silly in retrospect.
He was brilliant, with a tendency to arrogance; perhaps that explained why he got along so well with Lleland.
Call this presumptuous arrogance or call it faith in our selves.
Once you understand that Socialist are a bit unhinged to begin with, and the more they gather and plot...the unhingement becomes more and more manic until arrogance and nonsense is all they have to draw from. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with. Amy Tan
Their faults can be as large in scale as their virtues, and an excessively negative Leonian can be one of the most unpleasant human beings imaginable, displaying extreme arrogance, autocratic pride, haughtiness, and excessive hastiness of temper. Archive 2007-07-01
The redemption of Judas, the challenges of pusillanimous leadership and the sin of overweening arrogance are handled deftly in this timeless tale.
Atheists' arrogance is their Achilles' heel, as cringe-making radio performance has proved. Christopher Lane: Religious Self-Definition A Major Issue In Dawkins's Poor Debate Performance
Wow, a president who gathers data and considers it vs. an adolescent one who studiously avoided serving in Vietnam yet launched two incredibly costly (in blood and dollars) wars impetuously, with the Iraq war based solely on deceit and arrogance and in violation of the UN and the Geneva Conventions. Obama: Decision on U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan 'soon'
By forgetting about people such as La Fayette, it only feeds into the arrogance that the US alone is the best and the greatest. 11/18/2007
Thus the Rome official showed his arrogance superciliously.
They go against armed forces numbering 120,000, armed with AK 47s and strutting with pride and arrogance.
His crushing critiques, if not born of arrogance, have at times been delivered with a haughtiness that practically swaggers across the page or the airwaves.
What gets up our noses is the brass-bound arrogance and hubris of the pirates who now run your system.
It is one thing to seek to excuse Machiavelli's cynicism and cruelty on the grounds that he was a man of his time - a victim as well as an architect of Renaissance arrogance and presumption.
Among other things, voters will assume that a PNM victory in those circumstances would mean a sharp and irreversible rise, to the point of insufferableness, in the very arrogance and lack of sensitivity they now find so objectionable. TrinidadExpress Today's News
Although he was an academic, he did not appear to have the arrogance and overweening sense of self-importance that some of his kind possess.
He sullied his already dwindling credibility with an exhibition of arrogance, bad taste and egotism that made for queasy viewing.
Smugness, conceit, an arrogance which has the appearance of humility… here I can no longer reserve my hatred for these impotent writers.
In their arrogance and recklessness they are openly admitting they plan first-strike nuclear attacks against non-nuclear powers, endangering the very survival of humankind with their hegemonic attitude.
The majority of the Amphitheater School District governing board reeks with corruption, arrogance, conflicts of interest and blatant stonewalling.
Swagger and arrogance is all very well but until that huge European Cup is hoisted aloft it is merely bluster and bravado.
The arrogance became his protective carapace.
The arrogance of such logic is at best questionable and at worst fascicle. Archive 2008-05-01
The arrogance and finality of these statements alarms me.
Dark, dandyish, dashing, brooding – it combined an extraordinary mixture of male arrogance and almost feminine beauty, emphasised by vivid clothes, peacock hairstyles and smouldering glances. Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
With those five words, Lili managed simultaneously to convey exhaustion, indomitable, spirited arrogance, and shocked, virginal modesty.
Their arrogance and dogmatism in pursuit of their political struggle led at one point to a kind of reckless disregard for life.
It will not be hard to lay all of the mischief, miscreancy, and arrogance of the 2006 mid-term elections at his feet. June 2006
I have to admire their persistence in the face of overwhelming odds of getting laughed off the beach, if not pantsed and having their lunch money taken away, but that's more than offset by the revulsion generated in response to the smug arrogance and presumptuousness of these missionaries. Where Would Jesus Spend Spring Break?
My wish to express a wider, considered, view of playwriting and dramaturgy probably just came across as arrogance.
The chilling and insensitive arrogance of this remark is breathtaking.
Not giant refrigerators, transistorised and riveted hulks; bloated with imperialism, pillage, arrogance and eunuchoid science. Jodorowsky On His Unmade "Dune"
Murray - announced that they were going to flesh out the original by changing dialogue, adding back stories, and having a new, more upbeat ending, Stephen Sondheim got so angry he wrote to the New York Times attacking what he called willful ignorance and arrogance. NPR Topics: News
Too little humility - what we'd call arrogance or conceit - is easily seen as a spiritual impediment, but the opposite is also true.
I'm not paying for it, 'blunt arrogance', These two ladies will realise one day its engineering the nation, not 'domestic engineering'_ "There are lessons to learn .. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
It is a picture of arrogance and complacency. Times, Sunday Times
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. Frank Lloyd Wright
We live in a sad era that mistakes mean-spirited arrogance for intellectual daring, juvenile nastiness for independence of mind, the dung beetle for the artist.
There is plenty of such colourful metaphor in this book - it is one of the consolations as one contemplates the astonishing greed, vanity, chutzpah and arrogance of the CEO.
Dear Jack, I'd say that each segment of this finanical meltdown has been dealt a plan leading them out of the morass they created because of their unique forms of greed, narrowmindness, arrogance, self-importantness and self-made superiorty. Cafferty File
A mathematician by training, he was an early questioner of value-free science and the arrogance of 19th-century scientific rationalism. Times, Sunday Times
We should be modest and prudent, guard against arrogance and rashness.
His boozing, arrogance, and hair-trigger temper have often led him into ugly nightclub brawls.
He is an unassuming man, devoid of arrogance, a few years too old to be called a prodigy.
We are not about arrogance, or complacency. Times, Sunday Times
Another extraordinary characteristic of the book is its combination of supreme humility with what the enemy might describe as overweening arrogance. Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out"
Until past mid-century, pastors of this congregation usually had brief tenures and some reflected the youthful immaturity and arrogance of W. B. Johnson.
The report does, however, portray a torrid tale of arrogance and incompetence by the company's management.
But the outlaw, formerly known as William Bonny, radiated arrogance, and an unbridled lust for blood in every fiber of his being.
She interpret his silence as arrogance.
One should also learn to avoid non-divine traits as ostentation, arrogance, self-conceit, anger, pride and excessive attachment to worldly possessions.
Fearless of scoffing, and of the ostent, let us take our stand, our ground, and never desert it, to confront the growing excess and arrogance of realism. Democratic Vistas: Paras. 90–119. Collect
He shows all the signs of arrogance over an issue which deeply divides our country.
Their views are the result of a fallen and sinful human nature, of rampant egotism and arrogance, and nothing more.
There is a lot of support in the town and they are cheesed off with the arrogance of the Liberal Democrats.
Tellingly, Namath, Allen, and Robertson all criticize the unpolished arrogance of the modern athlete, just as they were criticized before.
He is a typical city boy, red braces, no socks and plenty of arrogance.
He is commonly remembered not as the mature creator -- forging, in mingled arrogance and piety, "the uncreated conscience of his race" -- but as a winged figure poised for a break with the dominating forces in his background. James Joyce
There he is on the front cover - a corpulent fellow with pink cheeks and a long, grey wig, staring out at us with a hint of arrogance: Samuel Pepys, the great diarist.
His false modesties cannot hide his true arrogance and self-importance. McCain Just After 9/11: "Next Up, Baghdad!"
Tea Party marchers, however, acted with an air of constipation, arrogance, intolerant and predisposed to lying, fearmongoring, intimidation, and completely brainwashed from the faux news channel. Flashback to Obama campaign
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Edmund Burke
Readers may find the pretension and arrogance of her style irritating.
Sabastiano, le célibat d'été est une malédiction dans la mesure où, les beaux jours arrivant, les couples les couples bobo atteignent le summum de l'arrogance se baladent main dans la main avec un air encore plus serein et amoureux qu'en hiver, par exemple. 21:50 and peachy
His stolid instinctive conservatism grovels before the tyrant rule of routine, despite that turbulent and licentious independence which ever suggests revolt against the ruler: his mental torpidity, founded upon physical indolence, renders immediate action and all manner of exertion distasteful: his conscious weakness shows itself in overweening arrogance and intolerance. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Obviously arrogance and egotism can get involved. Christianity Today
Either Bryan is bating us here for the sake of sophomoric argument, or his arrogance is leading him down a path that leads to rejection and isolation. The Mirage of Libertarian Populism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
There is a peculiar elitist arrogance in those who discourse on the brutalization of work simply because they cannot imagine themselves performing the job.
Their charming arrogance suddenly sounded a little spiteful.
He was a typical showman with a brashness bordering on arrogance.
No surprise, then, that the airline stands accused of corporate arrogance and customer neglect.
Beware of arrogance and vanity when you bask in your glory.
He loathes food critics, loves a fight and taunts women with his arrogance and charm.
We are now reaping the result of that arrogance. Times, Sunday Times
Arrogance, hubris, blind patriotism, and good old fashioned fear are our real enemy!
Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.
If we consider how essential to such a masterpiece is inoculation of belief in the tender age of childhood, the system of missions appears no longer merely as the height of human importunity, arrogance, and impertinence, but also of absurdity; in so far as it does not confine itself to people who are still in the stage of _childhood_, such as the Hottentots, Kaffirs, Essays of Schopenhauer
This is, you realise, the trigram structure for Presidential Arrogance. Archive 2006-10-01
Her cool aloofness was seen as arrogance by some people.
Now, a cumulation of mismanagement, inferior training, bad judgment calls and arrogance have come back to smack the force in the face. Who Watches the Watchmen: Police Investigating Themselves « Colleen Anderson
The import of his cheating goes beyond his own life and chosen sport because of his arrogance and sheer audacity. Times, Sunday Times
We had incredible belief in ourselves - that youthful arrogance that goes with the whole package.
The majority of the Amphitheater School District governing board reeks with corruption, arrogance, conflicts of interest and blatant stonewalling.
His enemies prefer to see him as a victim, once again, of his own arrogance, of hubris, and an addiction to taking himself too seriously.
Rather, it's the arrogance of their execution that seems set to trigger an exodus. Times, Sunday Times
The dictionary definition of arrogance suggests overbearing behavior based on inappropriate views.
There is no trace of conceit, arrogance or class consciousness about her.
Yet you would search in vain for a person who more sharply belied the image of idle arrogance this conveys. Times, Sunday Times
In particular, it is common for people to oscillate between withdrawal and arrogance.
Gone is the shameless arrogance and empire building of the previous incumbents.
In Weigel's topsy-turvy world, the bishops' main failing was not arrogance but its antithesis: passivity.
Putting issues in the cupboard only allow them to fester into diseased debates over injustice or elite arrogance.
The nutmeg as Mills tried to shield the ball at the corner flag was a sublime example of justified arrogance.
Silence is not stupidity . Cleverness is not wisdom . Self - respect is not arrogance . Subservience is not loyalty.
The boast of arrogance soon turns to shame.
Page 28 church without a bishop, that many of the early preachers realized the importance that an episcopacy which is free from any display of arrogance or unseemly assumption of power, is capable of the best possible results. Sketch of the Early History of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church with Jubilee Souvenir and an Appendix
The government that repeatedly declares that an educated society is its goal has to avoid the self-conceit and arrogance coming from holding power.
Our top bankers are guilty of the same insufferable arrogance. The Sun
April 25th, 2008 3: 26 pm ET another example of obama's arrogance. not so fast, now that rev. wright is back on the talk show circuit I'm sure there will be some more controversy coming obama's way. Obama campaign makes general election plans
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. Of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war. Chris Rock
People of the world are rebuffed by the resulting arrogance and threatening postures, and peace remains elusive.
But without pride and arrogance, nothing worthwhile is ever done. Genius in a Bottle
Arrogance is an unbeatable antidote to common sense and reality.
The arrogance of that is still astounding. Times, Sunday Times
Must say the present head of Telstra would go under the title ugly american type but American's don't have a lock on arrogance. Whirlpool.net.au
His attitude smacks of breathtaking arrogance and it is right for him to go. The Sun
Lady Catherine is one of the main offenders, her airs, arrogance and pride are fuelled by other characters like Mr Collins.
They do not look for, do not see, and do not achieve insight into their fatal flaws - arrogance, overweening pride, hypocrisy, ineptitude, and, increasingly, irrelevance.
Pride is the mother of arrogance. Toba Beta
The arrogance of some men… I stare at him in disgust, before quickly recomposing my face into a fake smile.
There are many who insist that the paradigms of greed, arrogance and usurpation are the true reference points for our sextants.
This is an infuriating article that shows the level of arrogance and indulgement of so many Americans, and I am a born and raised American! Would you move 1000 miles for your job?
Not learning from our mistakes is the type of arrogance no writer can afford. Which he sought so hard we'll tear apart
And thus our Saviour meets with the arrogance of Peter, foretelling him that he should not have the courage he so confidently assumed to himself, but should within the time and space of cockcrowing deny him thrice. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Zell and the New Wave had a term for clinging to the principles underlying everything we did: "journalistic arrogance. Mark Heisler: Confessions of a Dead Tribune
Limbaugh already has his Black Shirt and has passed from merely feeding from the situation to an arrogance of pretense. The Paranoid Rightwing
On a basic level I understand Mr. Lynch's statement but find that it reeks of arrogance.
This is due to intransigency and arrogance of the Minister in the Office of the Presidency," he said. ANC Daily News Briefing
Can I disclaim the stereotype of Americans as living without the resonance of history, inhabiting the present with a childlike complacency, an unwitting, unreflecting arrogance?
Ironically, Mike Griffin possesses the knowledge required, but with an arrogance and lack political savvy that has left us equally bankrupt from a leadership point of view. Major General Jonathan Scott Gration Emerges as Possible Obama Choice for NASA Administrator - NASA Watch
The Pharisees exampled what man looks like trying to keep God's law in his own power, it leads to pride, arrogance, and rebellion. You said it | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
And the wilful ignorance and arrogance is potentially catastrophic. The Sun
Blessed with good looks, an easy Irish charm and more than a touch of arrogance, he wooed and won over almost every woman he met: from bunny girls to arch-feminist Germaine Greer.
Not only have you joined the ranks of the morally obtuse, but you have done so with an arrogance that would astound a mullah issuing a fatwa.
Each section revolves around a different theme, together revealing the power and arrogance of political leaders in cahoots with corporate capital.
Is there an arrogance that makes him careless? Times, Sunday Times
Does Barack Obama really embrace “abrasiveness, arrogance, and overbearingness” as the model for his cabinet? Against Larry Summers, the Friedmanite
I would rather forgive pride in a poor body, than in a rich: for in the rich it is insult and arrogance, proceeding from their high condition; but in the poor it may be a defensative against dishonesty, and may shew a natural bravery of mind, perhaps, if properly directed, and manifested on right occasions, that the frowns of fortune cannot depress. Pamela
The bombast, condescension, arrogance and swagger all seems slightly silly in retrospect.
As it happened, the arrogance of the faction sparked a backlash, resulting in the dismissal of the group's leader, John.
It was often mistaken by both friends and enemies for an insufferable arrogance.

How To Use Arrogance In A Sentence

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