loftily

• “And Lola and the baby had chimed in loftily, All men ought to have hobbies.”

  The Garden Party, and Other Stories

• “School will teach you a number of things," said her cousin loftily.”

  Mates at Billabong

• “I shall see to the paperwork, " Lawford said loftily, meaning he wanted to lie down for an hour, and he nodded curtly at Sharpe and, beckoning his servants, went to find his billet.”

  Sharpe's Escape

• ““People do my dirty work for me,” said Fancy, loftily.”

  Simon & Schuster: Slice Of Cherry

• “But what else can you expect, when you attempt to practice apartheid while loftily talking about your own right to exist?”

  Matthew Yglesias » Israel’s Irrealism on Settlements

• “It was an inglorious episode on both sides, with its roots in an expanding imperial power being rebuffed in its efforts to trade: there was nothing, the Chinese loftily replied to the British emissaries, that China needed or wanted from the west – not their goods, not their ideas and certainly not their company.”

  The Guardian: The Opium War by Julia Lovell – review

• “Wivenhoe Bookshop23 High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex CO7 9BE, 01206 824050Behind the charming 17th-century clapboard facade of Wivenhoe Bookshop lie two small but perfectly formed rooms filled with books, and a large shed in the courtyard out back, loftily known as the event space.”

  The Guardian: Independent Bookshops in East England

• “It is clear from the opening that Redmayne's Richard is a man encased in ritual: he sits silently on the throne in an incense-filled chamber as the audience assembles, loftily accepts courtly obeisance and clutches a sceptre as proof of his divine right.”

  The Guardian: Richard II – review

• “The paper has been withdrawn because it contained direct passages from other sources without the necessary citation or attribution," says the respected body a tad loftily.”

  The Guardian: Hugh muir's diary

• “The university building has been designed with cross-fertilisation in mind, so the formerly sequestered departments have been encouraged by its architecture to collaborate and compete for attention: the fashion studios with their rows of half-dressed mannequins look over at the rigour of graphic design; fine arts gazes loftily down on the weaving room of the textile department, in which banks of looms display the threads of intricate pattern-making.”

  The Guardian: Even in straitened times, we must encourage, not stifle, creativity | Tim Adams

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