Word: hauteur
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Eskew has taken advantage of his long-standing relationship with the candidate to dispense with much of the imperial hauteur of Goreworld. Although the Vice President had been privately arguing for debates with Bradley as early as last spring, his advisers back then talked him out of it, dismissing such an unorthodox move as insanity for a front runner. Better to ignore Bradley entirely, they argued. "Gore sometimes felt like a prisoner in his own campaign," says a friend in whom the Vice President confided. Some of Gore's Old Guard grumbled privately when he finally laid down his challenge...
...foreign" (German) background of the Windsors. The famous speech, given by Diana's younger brother, the Earl of Spencer, at her funeral in London, with its barely contained hostility toward his royal in-laws, moved many people at the time but was in fact an exercise of extraordinary hauteur...
...funny part is that all this stufflust is covered over by a sheen of hauteur, loads of English accents and names like Sotheby's and Christie's. No one ever got a catalog from Finkelstein's or the House of Lopez...
What hurt most was the triumphant crime-stopper look on the heavy-set woman's face, her moral hauteur as she jabbed her finger at me and raised her voice so that she could be heard by passersby 50 ft. away. She wasn't just collecting on a debt, she was testifying before a Senate committee. She was Acting. This hurt me. Especially as I remembered having behaved that way myself. And it struck me that Gasgate was my penance for the Solidarity Forever affair...
Bujold has the frazzled hauteur of an aging, neglected star, and Spelling is nicely glazed, studiously artless. But the film is keyed to Posey's performance: perfectly brittle, faultlessly false. As the most toxic of this family of vipers, she creeps and stings, and no one dares look away...