The Lithuanian hosts had tested their guest's sense of humour with a barrage of jokes, mostly reflecting Estonians' perceived icy reserve and inconsiderateness.
He liked the idea of this woman friend of his continuing to work as a servant in other houses; and though she sometimes complained about the inconsiderateness of her employers, he was not too eager to emancipate her.
For all my, I'm sure, bottomless inconsiderateness of other people, I'm always empathizing with the other person.
In response, Ms. Vance, who is white, left a voice mail message, which Ms. McIntosh saved, laced with racial slurs and profanity and suggested that flakiness and inconsiderateness were endemic to black people.
You want to point out the inconsiderateness but you don't, patiently waiting for the shouter to move on.
He then outlines the six themes that shape his book: the influence of Amis's early upbringing, "the aggression which is so marked a feature of his character and writings", his "astonishing energy", his sense of "writing as a craft or profession", his "hostility to distinctions between high culture and low", and his "lifelong obsession with egotism, selfishness [and] inconsiderateness".
Over the next couple of months, our neighbours continued to play their music at all times of the day and night, at top volume, and with the bass was turned up as high as possible – meaning our flat vibrated to the tune of their rudeness and inconsiderateness.
This generated a lively discussion in which children commented on the inconsiderateness of the three visiting children, the desirability of working out a solution that would satisfy all four children, the importance of respecting people's rights, and how one might feel if he or she were in Ian's place.
