Sentence examples for presumptuousness from inspiring English sources

It did not seem implausible.Almost four years later, the presumptuousness of that commitment has been thoroughly exposed.

If heaven does not intend this culture to be destroyed, then what can the men of Kuang do to me? (9 5) That expression of self-confidence informed by a powerful sense of mission may give the impression that there was presumptuousness in Confucius's self-image.

And, with all of Italy obsessed with the possibility of a biscotto – Spain and Croatia replicating Sweden and Denmark's 2-2 draw of 2004 to send both through at Italy's expense – Prandelli felt there was a bit too much presumptuousness about his team's own match with Ireland.

But such presumptuousness on the part of mere mortals is possible, and likely to bear fruit, only in communities that have been trained to share and to respect certain moral principles grounded in thoughtfulness.

A very funny scene early in Richard Ben Cramer's book about the 1988 Presidential campaign, "What It Takes," shows Bush blowing his stack when he sees his father's White House chief of staff, Craig Fuller, sitting in what he regards as a family seat at a baseball game, and, without a second's thought, loudly complaining about Fuller's presumptuousness.

In the new story, the presumptuousness of harnessing the energy of matter is only the first in a range of other sins that add up to a misguided faith in human control over the course of nature.

There is much to dislike in "A Preparation for Death" — the see-what-sticks prose, the antisocial ranting, the whirlwind of narcissism and consumption that is our narrator — but it does one thing very well: it captures the wild presumptuousness of literary ambition.

Oh, to wish what is into what is not, other than on the page!" In the earlier novel, fiction yearns to keep pace with the scandal and presumptuousness and fictionality of life; in the later novel, life yearns for the scandalous freedom and fantasy of fiction.

This unbruised, masculine presumptuousness continues on the album closer, "Get Out Of My Car," a comically loathsome but likable statement of late-night purpose.

Rodriguez's decision to post a Twitter message saying that he had been cleared to begin a minor league rehabilitation assignment incurred the wrath of Cashman, who told ESPNNewYork.com during the Yankees' 4-3 victoverover the Texas Rangers that he was furious at Rodriguez's presumptuousness and, with an expletive tossed in, that he should just shut up.

The implication is that the contemporary practice expresses the wrong attitude toward the ruler presumptuousness in assuming permission to ascend.