Word: hauteur
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...still a self-confessed genius and he is still broke. His bestselling book, Hummingbird Hill, has won him fame, but lost him a fortune in libel suits. All he has left is a $10,000 prize which he can collect only by taking a college degree. With acidulous hauteur, he enrolls as a freshman at Clemens University, gets a job as hasher at the Triple Gamma sorority house, and sets out to take four years of higher education...
...script (which he is said to have written) has a charming, blank-verse hauteur that just possibly may be a bit asinine-but the direction saves the day by insisting on a witty, natural reading. Fairbanks has also inflicted an extreme lilt on the rhythm of the film-a lilt that would be annoying if it were not necessary to keep the lame plot marching along...
Many things in A Night in Casablanca are not as funny as they should be-the Brothers have been doing this sort of thing for more than two decades, and are far too intelligent not to show the Marx of it; and the teetering hauteur of Margaret Dumont is especially missed. But even in their sleep the Marx Brothers could stage a funnier masque of anarchy than anyone else...
...conviction of Christ and of our own country's founders that our fellow men were our brothers and equals: but had you showed us how to love the man who still remained unconvinced? Could we fit into your gentle worlds of learning the treachery of desperate Arab urchins, the hauteur of allies hurt by unplanned insults, the greediness of Italian waifs in snatching scraps we refused, the hollow smiles of erstwhile enemies? Could we reconcile the fear we had at being shoved out to meet predestined missiles hurled by other cringing beings...
...Washington last week it was exactly one year since he had marched into liberated Paris behind the might of U.S. arms. It was little more than 13 months since his last visit to the U.S., when he had repaid Franklin Roosevelt's cool reserve with a stiff hauteur...