Sentences with phrase «sound haughty»

I don't mean this sound haughty, but rather to underscore the fact that one develops expertise in ethics just as one does in teaching, journalism, science, or any other field.

Not exact matches

Roquentin's confrontation with the void in Sartre's Nausea («Everything is gratuitous»), the defeatism of Mr. Compson in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury («All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not»), and Nietzsche's ironic and mournful declamations (such as his remark that the moment «clever animals invented cognition... was the haughtiest, most mendacious moment in the history of this world, but yet only a moment.

I will organize a meet & greet — ok, that sounds really strange and somehow haughty — so let's rather call it an evening when I'll finally have the possibility to meet YOU and we're able to sniff at each other.