Sentence examples for is insolent from inspiring English sources

Culture because it is insolent, disrespectful, free, human, the opposite of fundamentalism and fantasism.

Duchamp's defacement of a cherished treasure is insolent, yet if it causes anger it does so not because it is attacking Leonardo - who is beyond that, anyway?

She is "insolent and willful," he says, and just to be sure there's no confusion, he adds, "I don't like the way you look, sound or move".

In a letter to the ministry, Mr. Sfard wrote, "It is insolent and preposterous to expect someone who was shot by the security forces, whether unintentionally, negligently or with criminal intention, to fund her own medical treatment".

Du Poirier was a creature of the utmost vulgarity, a man who seemed proud of his crass, overfamiliar ways; thus does a pig wallow in mud with a kind of voluptuous pleasure that is insolent toward the spectator".

He was also skilled at carpentry and "is something of a horse jockey". The ad explained that Sandy was "greatly addicted to drink, and when drunk is insolent and disorderly, in his conversation he swears much, and in his behavior is artful and knavish". Sandy apparently escaped with a white horse.

Is it forbidden to make an honest living?" "Don't be insolent!

I don't mean to continue being insolent, she said.

Some blasphemers are jaunty, some are insolent, some are scary, some are nervous.

As comebacks go, it's insolent, crude, dismissive of authority and actively aggressive toward poseurs.

In the world of Michel Houellebecq's later novels, such an idea would be insolent indeed.