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The phrase "impertinent for" can be used in written English, but it is not a commonly used phrase
It may sound awkward or outdated in some contexts, so it is important to use it carefully. Here are two possible examples: 1. The teacher found the student's comments to be impertinent for a classroom setting. 2. His rude behavior was deemed impertinent for a formal dinner party.
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"It is too lively, too aggressive and far too impertinent for you".
Until they finally parted it seemed impertinent for even a gap of space to come between them.
She declined the invitation, noting that she likes her day job — and that it would also be impertinent for a billionaire to represent working-class Italians.
With such considerations in view, it would seem impertinent for a non-Aboriginal writer to observe that this undeniably important and often brilliant novel might have benefited in places from a firmer editorial hand.
"I TRULY believe what keeps consumers from great fashion is the buyers," said Karen Erickson, sounding rather impertinent for someone whose business is selling clothes to buyers from designer stores.
But the painter, who died in 1989, had stern words for anyone watching their waistline, writing: "If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too impertinent for you".
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Stein is a Dangerous Mind only if you see mark-to-market accounting as a ballsy show of defiance, which makes him the perfect impertinent hero for the God-said-it-I-believe-it set.
With Wallis directing, writing, and producing and Rademeyer as star and fellow producer, Good for Nothing takes advantage of its much-vaunted New Zealand locales for some Sergio Leone/John Ford impact, and throws in some impertinent, Kiwi attitude for kicks.
It may be impertinent, he admits, for a layman to tackle such a subject, but he takes encouragement from Rutherford himself, who in the politically incorrect 30s used to tell young physicists that if their work could not be explained in terms a barmaid could understand it was probably not worth doing.
In fact, it is Doyle's willingness to deflate sentiment that makes this collection appealing, though describing Emily Dickinson's mysterious personal life as "fertile ground for impertinent speculation and half-baked psychoanalysis" while gaily reprinting her private correspondence is perhaps a little harsh.
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