Compare the marriage proposals of Mr. Collins and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice and Elizabeth's responses.

marriage
proposal is arrogant - he is convinced thatwill accept - but it is also flowery and obsequious. 
He over-explains himself, laying out all his reasons for marrying and
explaining the "violence of [his] affection."   He insults
Elizabeth's fortune by insisting that he is "indifferent to it." 
He ends by insisting "no ungenerous reproach shall ever pass my lips when we are
married."  He doesn't even wait for a response.  His he assumes they are already
engaged.

's speech is less flowery and more straightforward.  He actually
proposes, rather...