Sentence examples for insolent question from inspiring English sources

(Not precisely. It was part of an insolent question posed to the eponymous hero of "The Idiot").

A few minutes later, Fallaci asked a more insolent question: "How do you swim in a chador?" Khomeini snapped, "Our customs are none of your business.

This insolent question I put to Kasahara was easily topped by visiting geek Larry Chiang (at 42 15 min).

With the arrogance of monied youth, Oakley starts asking Anna all sorts of insolent questions about her life choices, a familiarity she tolerates, all too clearly because she thinks it's the prelude to a sexual adventure.

But its motion, its insolent shift, makes my stomach heave.

They get insolent and pouty and the woman in question feels the need to either undercut her own reaction with an apology or some olive branch of a joke to cut the tension.

In one particularly insolent exchange, he responded to Sen. Amy Klobuchar's question as to whether he'd ever drunk so much that he couldn't remember the next day what had happened by turning the question back on her ― twice.

Part insolent and part sceptical, they remain incredibly vague and absurd in response to all questions: "Why would you like to know how old we are?" (T, on age).

Canonge claimed that when he questioned Madame Lalaurie's husband about the slaves, he was told in an insolent manner that "some people had better stay at home rather than come to others' houses to dictate laws and meddle with other people's business".

She's courageous and insolent".

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