"He insolently mocked the truth about the rights of Bulgarian and Soviet citizens to travel abroad", says a 1975 letter.
Indeed, it is the attitude of countries once under Russia's sway that is the biggest obstacle to the French dream of an autonomous Europe that would stare Uncle Sam insolently in the eye.
Yet its ships sometimes treat the sea as a Chinese lake; its maps show a great lolling tongue of Chinese sovereignty stuck insolently out at the South-East Asian littoral states.
One striking shot, well into the film, mounts the camera on the hood of Shelley Duvall's car and then, as the car drives through the desert, almost insolently pans from horizon to horizon to show that nothing more is there.
In calmer water, we could skirt along the bottom of cliffs that sucked and roared impotently as we danced insolently around promontories and slid between rocks and shore.
Defying the international trend toward sleekly contemporary concert-hall design, Schermerhorn is almost insolently traditional: the façade, with columns supporting a Grecian pediment of naked figures and a lyre, might have been trucked in from the Munich of King Ludwig II.
In addition, they not only ordered East Berliners not to go near the wall but insolently warned West Berliners against approaching within a hundred metres of it, "in the interests of their own safety".
The dogs upset the great flocks of crows — karasu — that nest in the foliage or perch insolently on the tombs and whose bitter cawing fractures the peace.
(Frank Stella's insolently literal-minded designs on blocky stretchers were the height of sophisticated taste back then; their emotional numbness has consigned them, in retrospect, to period décor).
Nevertheless, Miranda shifted energetically between roles: one moment he was swaggering downstage with the ensemble, insolently extending his fingers and thumb above his head, as if he were shooting a gun; the next he was tapping on his computer or his phone.
Adès, the former enfant terrible of British music, has matured wonderfully as a composer; having made his name with brilliant, fiendishly difficult, often insolently ironic pieces, he now uses complicated means to express uncomplicated feelings.
