This could seem dandyishly insolent of him: shrugging off the requirement for logical necessity in big-time avant-garde art.
This is particularly true of Kirkus, which is generally the more insolent of the two and whose reviews are often described as snide by those in book publishing.
Apart from that, the normal structures of society, whether inside the institution or beyond, seem irrelevant and cracked, and, as with Jean Vigo's "Zéro de Conduite" (1933), still the most insolent of all boarding-school films, the scurrility of the pupils bears a whiff of revolution on a wider scale.
The particular object of Atta's abomination was the American skyscraper — the global symbol of the insolent power of the kuffar.
An enthusiastic literary critical response ranged from Graham Greene, who admired Byron's demotic, conversational brilliance, to the rivalrous Evelyn Waugh, who had to concede the book's high spirits, via the Sunday Times, which linked Byron to his namesake (no relation) and declared him "the last and finest fruit of the insolent humanism of the 18th century".
At the period alluded to, the congress, then sitting at Philadelphia, was surrounded and insulted by a small, but insolent body of mutineers of the continental army.
However, under the iron rule of TOTP producer Michael Hurll, such insolent displays of chop-wielding virtuosity were out of bounds.
Now that's an interesting possibility since the action of swaggering has nothing to do with strutting, but is marked by an air of defiant or insolent disregard of others.
Devon Aoki, the tiny model with the bee-stung lips who is the current favorite of Karl Lagerfeld, has the insolent strut of a bantam rooster.
Whatever images come to mind, the craft that went into the making of the scene — the melodic inspiration, the contrapuntal rigor, the immaculate demonstration of the rules, the insolent breaking of them — is as astounding now as it must have been on that day in 1724.
I'd like to know what the writer, who died in 1959, at the age of seventy, would have made of Gould's exquisite blend of impulsive, inspired, sardonic humor and insolent attitude — of professional bravado and intimate confusion.
