Sentence examples for insolent behavior from inspiring English sources

Despite Fanui's insolent behavior, Mr. Sotu fined him and asked him into his chambers where he bought the statue.

So we worked on how to vent constructively, a process that began with her actually having to explain to me why my insolent behavior might upset people.

For months during the Civil War, Lincoln chose to ignore insolent behavior by Gen. George McClellan, who served at times as the commander of the Army of the Potomac and the general in chief of the Union Army, arguing that his breaches of protocol were worth tolerating as long as he was exerting a positive influence on his forces.

In the third one, "Billy Phelan's Greatest Game," I managed to write with modest insight and an unexpected degree of sympathy about the boss, whom I called Patsy McCall, and how he found it important to monitor a lowly pool hustler like Billy Phelan and punish him for his insolent behavior.

Why must they now also contend with the consequences of the shortsighted, insolent and childish behavior of people sitting comfortably and safely back home?

The new movie, which stars Cynthia Nixon, lets a radiant, riotous, insolent humor illuminate the self-imposed confines of Dickinson's family circle and the boundaries of conventional thought and behavior that reinforced her sense of isolation.

I was an arrogant, undisciplined, insolent midshipman. . . .

She's courageous and insolent".

Elida gave me an oddly insolent look.

This is less insolent than fictionally disappointing.

Insolent little pickups scratched off with a squeal.