Sentence examples for presumptuous claim from inspiring English sources

By the following year's festival, Dylan was being introduced on stage with the presumptuous claim, "You know him, he's yours!".

By the 2nd century ad, however, gnostikoi had been adopted by various Christian groups, some of which used it positively as a self-designation, though others criticized this practice as a presumptuous claim of exclusive access to truth.

One need not be a billionaire to find this formulation — with its dismissive reference to "free speech," and its rather presumptuous claim to speak for "the rest of America" — rather off-putting.

It was a presumptuous claim in the first place that the unknown and untested Conservation League could protect the threatened natural resources of the coastal plain by fighting what its founders considered misguided growth.

It clearly put on display this government's imperiously presumptuous claim that it has the monopoly on nationalism.

The move, however, led to more confusion, since there was no central authority and most juntas did not recognize the presumptuous claim of some juntas to represent the monarchy as a whole.

What should we deduce from this? Tuckerman is still such an unknown figure, his life unwritten, his work barely discussed in the 130 years since his death, that it seems presumptuous to claim the poem's mystery as his own, rather than a mere literary construct.

It would, of course, be rather presumptuous to claim that Plato had not seen the need to do ontological 'anatomy', as well as taxonomy.

It's presumptuous to claim to know what Reagan would think today.

However presumptuous the claim, it's not a bad thing to have oversight.

It's a little presumptuous to claim to know the heart of a cat, is all we're saying.