Sentence examples for impertinent with from inspiring English sources

In between gauche-sounding, plausibly nephew-like admissions ("I can never understand why so many of your people wear glasses") and horny asides ("Uncle, your women are so beautiful"), Manto makes a statement such as this: "As long as Pakistan needs wheat, I cannot be impertinent with you".

The book shows how apparently new claims for Johannesburg as global city hide a long history of images of Johannesburg as the wonder city of Africa and the world, with comparisons both pertinent and impertinent with other cities from Chicago to Paris, Berlin to Bogotá, Sydney to Sāo Paolo.

Even so, he does have quite a few, and when the staging works -- as when the maid, Dorine (Jen Ryan), for example, does a marvelously quick and sharply impertinent pantomime with a feather duster, it is clear that Mr. Cohen knows the difference between deft and clunky as well as between original and cliché.

No 10's impatience with impertinent questions is showing.

Marcus Valerius Martialis tormented Roman emperors with impertinent epigrams two millennia ago.

Long-tailed monkeys leap across the roofs before performing commando descents down the front of pink buildings to greet observers with impertinent stares.

She takes umbrage at a line of goats below us, traversing the sheer south-east face of the ridge with impertinent ease.

This gouache presents the girl in a pink dress, sitting in a green field dotted with impertinent yellow buttercups, a warm blue sky above the green horizon, a distillation of youthful femininity.

"Don't bother me with impertinent questions".

Joined at the head since birth, the Iranian twins' plight had long been followed by the public with impertinent curiosity.

But Bryant was gracious, peppered with impertinent questions and requests to do shout-outs to never-heard-of broadcast outlets.