Word: arrogante
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Opponents called it unconstitutional, and said the campaign was financed by right-wing activists. Foley called it an "arrogant insult" to the voters.
And what's wrong with tradition? G.K. Chesterton, no Harvard Protestant but an English Catholic, once wrote that "tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes: our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those...
Q. Can't one be happily successful and also be arrogant at times? And studies show that most married people commit adultery.
What I think is significant is how these people find that material success does nothing to assuage that injury. At a certain level, success exacerbates it, making you more alone, arrogant, adventure-seeking or adulterous. You strive and strive and get more; then you wonder, "How would I ever know...
"With that caveat in mind," Coles says, "I have to remind myself of the irony in life, that sometimes one can find arrogance among those who criticize others for being arrogant."