Arrogance (redirected from high-handedness)

Arrogance

See also Boastfulness, Conceit, Egotism.

Artfulness (See CUNNING.)

amber

traditional symbol of arrogance. [Gem Symbolism: Jobes, 81]

Arachne

presumptuously challenges Athena to weaving contest; transformed into spider. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 69]

Catherine de Bourgh, Lady

arrogant, vulgar woman. [Br. Lit.: Pride and Prejudice]

Citizen Kane

rich and powerful man drives away friends by use of power. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 149]

Coriolanus

class-conscious and contemptuous leader. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus]

Darcy, Fitz William

proud of superior station. [Br. Lit.: Pride and Prejudice]

Duck, Donald

overbearing comic strip character with a chip on his shoulder. [Comics: Horn, 216–217]

Dundreary, Lord

his aristocratic haughtiness a trademark. [Br. Lit.: Our American Cousin]

Ferrara, Duke of

has had his wife murdered for too little appreciation of her place. [Br. Poetry: Browning My Last Duchess in Magill IV, 247]

Humpty Dumpty

arbitrarily gives his own meanings to words, and tolerates no objections. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass]

Lucifer

rebel archangel who challenged God’s supremacy. [Christian Hagiog.: Collier’s, XII, 143]

Lucy

know-it-all cartoon character gives advice to other children. [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 543]

Niobe

for boasting of superiority, her children are killed. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 224; Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]

rue

traditional symbol of arrogance. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]

tall sunflower

indicates haughtiness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]

Uzziah

king of Judah assumed priests’ function of burning incense; punished with leprosy. [O.T.: II Chronicles 26:16–19]

veni, vidi, vici

Caesar’s dispatch describing his subjugation of Pharnaces (47 B.C.). [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 923]

Volumnia

magisterial mother of Coriolanus; molds his character. [Br. Lit.: Coriolanus]

yellow carnation

traditional symbol of arrogance. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 291]

yellow sultan

traditional symbol of arrogant contempt. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]