Sentence examples for it is impertinent from inspiring English sources

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'I have a possibly unfashionable understanding of the word "impertinence",' Powell explains in his introduction, 'and I believe it is impertinent for the biographer or critic to poke his nose into those aspects of a living author's life where his nose is least welcome.' This refusal to be prurient about the living is fair enough, except when it defeats his object, which it does here quite often.

It is impertinent of the insurer to act on information that is medically insignificant.

He held that it is impertinent to pray to God to change things.

You might say it is impertinent to question the boxing judgement of Barry McGuigan, the Clones Cyclone who flies straight into any serious assessment of British fighting's best post-war performers.

It was surely a time as rich in petty bureaucrats as Gogol's Russia a century before, and so the satire seems as pertinent in that sense as it is impertinent in mood.

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It was impertinent genius.

"How much money does he need, anyway?" That question was as confounding as it was impertinent.

But Mr. Mattsson said the promised text never appeared, and when he asked the apostle about it, he was told it was impertinent to ask.

Would it be impertinent, then, to demand a few political conditions before validating this investment?

I just felt it was impertinent to have a show after a year, a year and a half.

Would it be impertinent to ask why you would want to retain people who screwed up so badly?

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