Just for fun, consider what these two share: impudence, contrariness, uproarious insults to bourgeois values that made them controversial, then fashionable, then had them prematurely posing for their native-son statues.
What Eliot considered "the waste land" of modern life the deracination, impudence and profane materialism was mother's milk to Groucho.Read more.
What stung the artist was that Ruskin had implied that he was guilty of "cockney impudence" in asking 200 guineas for something that looked as though it had been done by a toddler during a particularly hectic play session.
Four years later, worried by a growing sense of disenchantment and what they doubtless termed as "impudence", the genuine Establishment finally lost patience, and mounted a legal attack on its primary voice.
In January 1622, James dissolved Parliament, angry at what he perceived as the members' impudence and intransigence.
Here, every detail was in place, but what I missed was a frisson of impudence; Mr. Kigawa seemed too polite to indulge Mr. Zorn's rude vitality.
In case you don't know what moxie means, in Yiddish we call it chutzpah, which roughly means gall, nerve, cheek, or impudence.
But what's kept him from becoming a mainstream leading man — the cranky impudence, the lacerating British wit — is precisely what makes him so attractive.
However, on the television show, the minister mentor showed only the mildest signs of irritation at the youngsters' impudence, as he patiently rebutted their accusations and explained "why we do what we do".
But how he enthused a generation of cricket fans with his impudence, skill, courage and cartwheels and that New Zealand tour was the finale he deserved rather than what happened at Edgbaston five months later.
An imagined debate between Prikryl and Benedict Cumberbatch about "what's driven poets to this bluff / of severely impartial / impudence" lands them in an Alphonse-Gaston routine at a party's end, before Cumberbatch suggests, reasonably enough, that "we spare / each other the embarrassment / of being the last / to leave and leave in unison".
