He was confident to the verge of bumptiousness, contemporaries recall.
Boris Johnson, Conservative mayor of London and also New York-born – he was described by Mr. Miéville as "a ninja of bumptiousness" – conceded: "There's been plenty of articles in that paper saying exactly the opposite.
Tories believe that he is oily and untrustworthy and, instead of trying to address this with a display of sincere humility, he may have given the impression of bumptiousness.
The burly Mr Ballmer brought high-decibel bumptiousness; the svelte Mr Nadella (pictured) speaks in measured tones and quotes Eliot, Nietzsche and Rilke in his news conferences and memos.
Of course, any unsuspecting parent purchasing the album for their daughter would remain blissfully unaware of this; at the time, in the midst of the punk revolution, Kate Bush appeared the very epitome of a nice, middle-class girl, and her music, while odder than the usual bubblegum pop, had none of the sharp edges, urgency or bumptiousness associated with punk.
The stoutly affable, engagingly mellow men of Bear's Den shudder at such bumptiousness.
In the ethical system of the Greeks, hubris the overweening bumptiousness of individuals or groups in their dealings with other human beings or with the natural order was regarded as a very grave and since it invited condign punishment, an extremely dangerous form of delinquency.
The line for the bar was of English proportions, but its bumptiousness let you know where you (spiritually) were standing.
The mayor is a ninja of bumptiousness, a man with a genius for working rooms full of the easily pleased.
The evening's telling final image is of the anarchic Autolycus, played with conniving bumptiousness by Brian Doherty, alone onstage.
Britain's consul in Johannesburg, RJ Miller, accused Vine of bumptiousness and a "virtuoso display of name-dropping, from the prime minister downwards".
