Sentence examples for own presumption from inspiring English sources

In the Terry Gross interview, Andrew is not making his own presumption about her sexuality.

She concludes the bulk of her answers with a sheepish giggle, as though taken aback at her own presumption.

Calvary, it should be noted, is a film that is constantly commenting on itself, looking askance in the mirror and chuckling at its own presumption.

The friends, too young to be abashed by their own presumption, take on the slave-trade interests — a good part of the upper class, which was making a fortune from it — as a kind of consecrated adventure.

And yet, more often I see comedians apologising for being intelligent, faux-mocking their own presumption, lest this or that allusion to ballet or opera or art alienate their mainstream crowd.

"Down with Love" is a headlong exercise in retro style, and you could argue that the variety of pinks on show, from raging to dusty, indicate a movie blushing at its own presumption.

First, by educating decision makers about uncertainty in the world and helping them to understand and challenge their own presumptions.

Perhaps the first things his portraits make us think about are our own presumptions – in the wake of the London riots, might a mobile phone held to a figure's ear signify dodgy dealings, someone recently asked Price – as well as who we do and don't choose to look at, and why.

Luckily, I had Gottesman and Biddle to save me from my own presumptions, especially when we came upon a striking 1938 black-and-white photo by Walter Rosenblum of a young girl on a chain-link swing on Pitt Street in Manhattan underneath the Williamsburg Bridge.

Born in 1928, she was an artist raised and trained in traditions that she expanded without destroying; she embodied not the narrowly intellectual artist but the person of culture, and she also embodied the paradoxes of culture in an age when its own presumptions were being challenged.

"Or maybe those are just my own presumptions?" But maybe none of this even matters.