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This attitude towards his superiors would be mere insolence if it did not have political overtones.
Where do they get the authority and encouragement to practise their childish, schoolyard insolence and contempt of our leaders?
He was annoyed at the man's insolence but realised he must have appeared a coxcomb in Mr. Howitt's eyes.
The writing surface in front of her is gouged from thirty years of insolence and boredom at the hands of the hostile day students.
Later that day he was sent an envelope full of money to compensate him for my insolence.
For sheer insolence and contempt for the electorate, her statement is hard to beat.
The new Education Secretary has announced a crackdown on classroom backchat and persistent insolence.
It's not all brooding insolence though, there are glorious, uplifting love songs that pluck playfully at your heartstrings.
And let the last word quoted here be one of Elizabeth's own, illustrative of her strangely mingled temperament of queenliness and insolence.
Reagan's casual, almost flirtatious insolence is instantly attractive, and very modern for a 1940 rah-rah epic.
What can break the power of our self-love, pride, insolence, and our high self-opinion?
Perhaps it was a case of German insolence, a deliberate offense to Roman dignity.
How do we react to the great problems, the innocent suffering, the injustices perpetrated with arrogant insolence?
At any other time, it was a cold, meat-locker-lit, inconsiderately furnished wretch of a room, with service that defined insolence and cooking steeped in indolence.
Foreign Minister Lavrov apologized for his insolence, and insisted that the USG proceed with the proposed missile-defense site with all haste.
To those who doubt your sovereign power you show your strength and you confound the insolence of those who ignore it.
Ref. 207 is the alliance of elements that echo and counter-balance each other: inside and outside, pairs of colors, classicism and insolence?
We fear lest he hasten with insolence against us, or lest he transgress all bounds.
Acting and ostentatiously showing it, the roguish actors surprise us with humour and insolence again and again.
Do not bandy words in your insolence with the Mouth of Sauron!
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Atkins took the refusal to answer as insubordination and insolence.
I don't like impudence and insolence, but in the same time I can stick up for myself with a help of words.
His tyranny and insolence, however, alienated many and caused his rapid fall from power.
It's bound to be like this until the very priority won't become to knock down authority's insolence, that's empoisoning civil society.
We all know that the chief methods used by Mr Cohn-Bendit to raise his profile are provocation and insolence.
We have been accustomed to the insolence of power and contempt for the people's will.
The Inararibonye took on a similar role when a woman behaved badly in wider society, in cases of insolence, drunkenness, delinquency, and the like.
Their insolence and recklessness must be opposed, and better late than never.
Next day, in the morning, as if nothing had happened, we had the daring, the shame, the insolence, the impudence to present ourselves as usual in the temple.
Even those who had been sympathetic to Riel in the past found it difficult to understand why he had ordered the death of a man who, ultimately, was only guilty of insolence and profanity.
Hideyoshi was soon dead, but his successor, Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the long-running Tokugawa shogunate, had not forgotten the insolence of Okinawa, now riven between pro-Chinese and pro-Japanese factions.
The juxtaposition shocks, reviving a sense of insolence.
The execution of many senators and equites, the insolence and venality of his freedmen, the excessive influence of his wives, and even his bodily infirmities combined to make him unpopular.
In their efforts to promote and protect human rights, Member States should prefer dialogue and cooperation over confrontation, respect over arrogance and insolence, and sincerity over hypocrisy.
Violence among pupils, attacks on teachers or staff members, insolence, theft, and damage or destruction to school premises: school violence is one of the most visible forms of violence towards children.
Ten thousand particulars are now told of the female historian's insolence, capriciousness, and even abandonness.
Instead the material is perfectly executed punkadelic glam-bop burnished with a healthy dose of metallic insolence.
Elizabeth makes no such promise and Lady Catherine leaves, outraged by Elizabeth's perceived insolence.
And by my faith and troth, I have a good part of a mind to have thee beaten for thine insolence!
She looked back just as closely through her little eyes, with the near-blackmailing insolence of her knowledge. Whereupon he kissed her long and wetly.
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They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.
His jocular insolence becomes the motor of efficient salvational action.
Biebouw was flogged for his insolence and later banished to Jakarta.
Examples from Classical Literature
Again, it was Sadie who was first to retort, which she did with a manner that aped his own insolence.
All I reckoned upon was cowing him into a civiller posture of mind, and checking his aggressions and insolence.
All ordinary housekeepers are at the mercy of the filth and insolence of a draggle-tailed, novelette-reading feminine democracy.
The intolerable oppression upon trade, from the exorbitance of wages and insolence of mariners, would be taken off.
Wretch, this insolence, this show of frontless audacity, will avail thee nothing save to hasten thy doom.
These wars in the South were incited by the insolence and aggressiveness of the Americans.
As for this bull-headed fellow, he deserves his fate for his old insolence.
But on the other hand, these equalitarian plainnesses leave an open field for the insolence of Jack-in-office.
She did not know how to defend herself from their importunities, insolence and exigencies.
I remonstrated with him mildly but firmly, but only received insolence in return.
The hatefulness, the impossible arrogance and insolence of the man, she had thought!
I remained there, amazed and confused by the insolence of this ignoble brute.
I may, perhaps, be producing an unfair impression of imperiousness and insolence.
I asked if this was her own insolence, or her young mistress's observation?
Not even her wrath at the girl's insolence could wholly overcome her wonder.
She may not indeed put on the insolence of pride, and the fool-hardiness of presumption.
There was something like insolence in the way Pete Clancy returned his stare.
As they approached the town, the demonstrations of insolence were redoubled.
They warned off the rabble with the insolence every jack-in-office displays towards his inferiors.
Say that if it so please them, these old ruins are my property, and are not to be jobbed out to the insolence of public curiosity.
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There is nothing like the insolence and the superciliousness of people of that class.
Come, O thou of golden face, brandishing your thyrsus along Olympus, and restrain the insolence of the blood-thirsty man.
It struck me, like a blow, that she was merely avenging O'Brien's insolence to her father.
I have orated much against the American hotel clerk and his diamond pin and cool insolence, but I shall never do it again.
He was loud in praise of that book, the ironical insolence and pawky humour of which he had greatly enjoyed.
Remarking on this rencounter, Dashall observed, that the insolence of these fellows was become really a public nuisance.
Tom slank away, while Jack explained the insolence of the man, getting advice born of long experience.
Their crude productions, for the most part, were conspicuous rather for insolence and abusiveness than for logic or learning.
Is it that thou mayest witness the insolence of Agamemnon, the son of Atreus?
The Chinese could see the funk he was in as well as I could, and their insolence became insufferable.
His evasion, of course, was the height of insolence, but it argued some resource and nerve.
And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence?
These words, uttered with severity, made Master Olivier's face revert to its insolence.
It was in vain to try to do so scornfully, or with his usual insolence.
While he endured their insolence at Ripon I fell on them at Durham.
No insolence, boy, quoth Lindley, working himself into a fine rage.
Your insolence, sir, overwhelms me, replied the under secretary.
That piece of insolence may think, now, that it would be a great success to get her son off upon me, and shelve me.
The insolence of Mr. Orr is not merely individual, but representative.
Weakly, supinely, slavishly, America was submitting to British insolence.
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And Mr. Lovelace's insolence will make me go very home with myself.
They scoffed at the tameness with which their insolence was endured.
That bravado gave impetus to the pointed insolence on the breakwater.
The old man, furious at this insolence as he considered it, took a cup and threw it at the Caliph, who easily avoided a missile from the hand of a drunken man.
Kim hailed a sweeper, who promptly retorted with a piece of unnecessary insolence, in the natural belief that the European boy could not follow it.
The Norman genius, talent for affairs as its main basis, with strenuousness and clear rapidity for its excellence, hardness and insolence for its defect.
Meanwhile the suitors were throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark on the levelled ground in front of Ulysses' house, and were behaving with all their old insolence.
The laborers began to jeer the travelers and by their insolence disturbed the equanimity even of the cool Athos, who urged on his horse against one of them.
The Locrians were laid waste by a legate of Scipio, yet they were not avenged by him, nor was the insolence of the legate punished, owing entirely to his easy nature.
Think, then, what I must have endured in hearing it bandied between the Eltons with all the vulgarity of needless repetition, and all the insolence of imaginary superiority.
