daring, ambitious, supercilious
"Смерть в Венеции", Ашенбах на кладбище наблюдает за каким-то мужчиной. Посреди описания этого мужчины читаю: "He gazed intently into the distance with colorless, red-lashed eyes, between which stood two stark vertical furrows that went rather oddly with his short, turned-up nose."
Mwahaha, there's where the whole Voldemort picture comes from - Thomas Mann, Death in Venice!
Mwahaha, there's where the whole Voldemort picture comes from - Thomas Mann, Death in Venice!