Sentence examples for less presumptuous from inspiring English sources

"Afterschool" and some of his earlier shorts do something more difficult and less presumptuous than speak for a generation: they define a moment.

For William Happer *64 to question "Temperatures Rising" (feature, March 17), how is game theory any less presumptuous than what Al Gore had invoked back when An Inconvenient Truth hadn't yet upgraded a charged situation into something more inspiringly sustainable?

If it's bad form to tell the heartsore they have spent too little -- and it surely is -- is it any less presumptuous to tell them they have spent too much?

In ten years, though, who knows, maybe "AI" will seem somewhat less presumptuous.

But it looks like business owners who have dreams of a family dynasty should be less presumptuous about that possibility in the future.

From the same team as super-exclusive Milk & Honey (the London/New York members-only mystery joint run by acclaimed mixologist Sasha Petraske and co-owner Joseph Schwartz), the intimate Little Branch is comfortable, conversational and less presumptuous than its nearby sister site.

Class revenge, which motivates the plot against the presumptuous steward, is less a factor in this version than is the idea of passion breaking through a stonewall surface.

"I don't want to be presumptuous, but there was much less difference between John and Mark O'Brien than between John and Teardrop," Mr. Lewin said, rattling off a few other qualities.

It may be moot and it certainly is presumptuous, but I would be less than honest with readers if I did not say what I believe: Making Hillary Rodham Clinton the secretary of state in Barack Obama's administration would be a mistake.

For me, anyway, the point of opinion writing is less to try to shape events, a presumptuous and foolhardy ambition at best, than to help stimulate debate and, from my particular perspective, try to explain why things got the way they are and what they might mean and where they might lead.

The type of historical fiction in which an author takes actual people (conveniently dead!) and puts thoughts into their heads and words into their mouths can seem presumptuous, especially when the author is less intelligent and interesting than the person whose thoughts he is trying to imagine.