Sentence examples for Rather presumptuous from inspiring English sources

The Boswell-Johnson analogy, however, now looks rather presumptuous.

Clearly, David Cameron has his eye on the rural vote, but isn't this rather presumptuous?

One need not be a billionaire to find this formulation — with its dismissive reference to "free speech," and its rather presumptuous claim to speak for "the rest of America" — rather off-putting.

"By the way, unfortunately, there is a school of higher education in Maine called the University of New England — a rather presumptuous title, but there they are," Comee said.

Speaker John A. Boehner makes the rather presumptuous assertion that to prevent the pending fiscal crisis, President Obama just needs to send Congress a balanced bill that both houses of Congress can pass.

But while the lilting 'Song For Bobby' fits the ramshackle eclecticism of Jukebox like a glove, the rather presumptuous interjection of 'Pretend' is an unnecessary bump on the Dusty road.

When she mentions Chekhov in her introduction, the reference is illuminating rather than presumptuous: We see her empathizing with modest souls who have great feelings, displaying a Chekhovian knack for the deflating, ordinary detail.

"I see all life as a part of God's creation," he told The Christian Science Monitor, "and I think it's rather audacious and presumptuous of humankind to consider that it has the right to destroy creation, to destroy all life".

I hope you will give my proposal careful consideration, and, if I'm not being presumptuous, sooner rather than later.

One man could even be heard offering Mr. McGraw some rather gruff — and perhaps presumptuous — encouragement, which seemed both invasive and unnecessary.

Here is Judy Dworin in TO MEND THE WORLD (White Pine Press, paper, $17.95) -- a title I find presumptuous and rather too grand: "It is September 11, what seems like a typical Tuesday morning.