As arrogant, self-made master builder Halvard Solness, Turturro commands the stage.

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In her chapter on Galileo, Ferguson tells us that the arrogant, self-promoting Italian did not invent the telescope, and it is doubtful he conducted the legendary display of dropping weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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After Mancini's sacking, City's former kit man Stephen Aziz, described the Italian as "arrogant, vain and self-centred" in one of a series of tweets that were later deleted from his Twitter account on Tuesday.

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Sun owes its position today to its evangelical fervour and a self-belief that borders on the arrogant.

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It requires a sense of entitlement, the ability to network and self-promote without seeing yourself as an arrogant, schmoozing blowhard.

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"One minute Bale's Patrick is a cowering corporate geek and self-described empty shell, the next an arrogant, name-dropping smoothie, the next a hysterical wimp unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, " it said.

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