"The thing that bothers me is presumptions like: 'She's getting favours done because she knows Jack White,'" Price says, over meatballs.
White scholars in African-American studies can face their own charges of Miss Anne-like presumption.
Imagined worlds moved quite out of my reach, seemed utterly pointless, not to mention a colossal human presumption: "Yes, dear if you like".
Mr Raab would like a presumption in favour of asset freezes and UK visa bans for officials of the Russian state and other countries where there was evidence linking them to such abuses.
The successful a priori prediction of this new gait supports the notion that many general aspects of gait mechanics can be understood without requiring either detailed musculoskeletal models or a presumption of obligate spring-like leg properties.
There is a presumption that people like Ms. Mendik will wander in and take care of things, forfeiting careers to serve a greater purpose.
The presumption of those, like Dick Armey, the House majority leader, who have made this argument is that Americans are a generally pacific people who will put down their ploughshares and take up swords only if attacked first.
It may seem like presumption on my part to have considered the possibility, but it doesn't matter how old you are, how intelligent you are, or how philosophical - or how much you tell yourself that the Man Booker Prize is, as Julian Barnes once memorably put it, "posh bingo".
Does "Lock her up" sound like presumption of innocence?
Imagined worlds moved quite out of my reach, seemed utterly pointless, not to mention a colossal human presumption: "Yes, dear — if you like".
