Sentence examples for impertinence I from inspiring English sources

Dear Mahvash Sabet, It's almost an impertinence, I feel, to write to a poet who is being kept behind bars for her words and beliefs.

It was all contemporary-looking but steeped in tradition, too — as when a sailor suddenly piped up, "Captain's on the bridge!" The captain, whose name was Brian Luther, was here to make his daily address, but first he admonished someone for a gross impertinence: "I don't want to hear anything about the Pittsburgh Steelers on my bridge".

It was all contemporary-looking but steeped in tradition, too as when a sailor suddenly piped up, "Captain's on the bridge!" The captain, whose name was Brian Luther, was here to make his daily address, but first he admonished someone for a gross impertinence: "I don't want to hear anything about the Pittsburgh Steelers on my bridge".

Critic Eric Bentley, on the other hand, wrote that "the last scene of Carousel is an impertinence: I refuse to be lectured to by a musical comedy scriptwriter on the education of children, the nature of the good life, and the contribution of the American small town to the salvation of souls".

It seemed a vast impertinence that I should be forced to meet Thomas Mann.

Coward would have been pleased to know that 81 years after he wrote them, lyrics like "People I employ/Have the impertinence to call me Myrna Loy" are still getting hearty laughs, even from audience members who have heard them more than once before.

If someone insults me and I become angry, his impertinence will be the aspect of his behavior that fits the formal object of anger: I only become angry once I construe the person's remark as a slight; the specific nature of my emotion's formal object is a function of my appraisal of the situation.

Confronting the cosmic impertinence of a child who moans, "I didn't ask to be born," Cosby responds, as always, with fond irritation.

Fearing he will take offence, I apologise for the impertinence of the question, before asking if his mother's estate was shared with David, but he doesn't appear to mind at all.

Presented with the chance to expound sourly on the injustice of some marginal call against his side, it seems unlikely Big Sam will snap: "Damn your impertinence, sir. Step aside, or I shall direct my groom to give you a horsewhipping".

Do you really think that this is what I commissioned you to do, to send me reports of the gladiatorial pairs, the adjournment of trials, Chrestus' compilation, and such tittle-tattle as nobody would have the impertinence to repeat to me when I am at Rome?" he wrote.