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It took the joyous irreverence of Wendy Cope's "Waste Land Limericks" – Iain yelped with laughter when I recited them to him – to give me the brass neck to attempt "A Fertile Sea", my own impertinent response to Eliot's masterwork.
While America welcomed the election of the Muslim Brotherhood's Muhammad Morsi as president of Egypt as a step towards democracy, the Saudis viewed it as a power grab by an Islamist cult, financed by another impertinent neighbour, Qatar, whose noisy Al Jazeera satellite TV channel has long disturbed the royal Saudis' sleep.
Millions are waging a campaign of civil disobedience against what many see as unfair and impertinent charges for services they had come to think free.Late last year Gauteng province, which includes Johannesburg, mounted gantries above highways to collect tolls.
What has riled him is an impertinent , but increasingly awkward, question: why in the world has Mexico jumped into bed with the OPEC oil cartel Two years ago, when Mr Tellez took on his country's energy portfolio, the cartel was moribund, several members nearly bankrupt, and the oil price sliding towards $10 a barrel.
But pro-democracy protests on Fridays on the streets of Amman, the capital, and elsewhere are getting angrier and more impertinent towards Abdullah.
On a recent money-raising campaign swing, she assured anybody impertinent enough to ask that she was "Just fine!" Even officials who have worked with her for years seem mystified by her.
At the same time, state media have damned the protesters as impertinent , drug-fuelled, foreign-backed, Islamist troublemakers.
Already, says the SNJ's Mr Boissarie, French journalism noticeably lacks the "impertinent " tone of Britain's press.
For a start, private-equity bosses can keep what they earn secret, while chief executives of quoted companies find themselves the subject of impertinent comments from the media and activist shareholders.Perhaps as a result, managers can earn a lot more in the unquoted sector.
AMERICA is not the only giant to suffer from an impertinent ratings agency.
Under impertinent questioning from your reporter, he admitted to hearing that the British are not very friendly to foreigners, or as he put it, that "they do not want to talk to them".
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Impertinent primarily functions as an adjective, modifying nouns to describe something or someone displaying inappropriate rudeness, lack of respect, or irrelevance. Ludwig examples show it qualifying actions, remarks, questions, and individuals.
Expression frequency: Very common
