| God, however, decided to punish them for their presumptuousness in erecting the tower by making them speak different languages. |
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| Now, I realise the presumptuousness of my thought and understand why they did not fear me. |
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| His presumptuousness is reflected in his opening moves and extreme appointments, which pour more salt on racial wounds. |
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| A certain presumptuousness and overestimation, derived from Calvinism, made them almost sound like proselytising preachers. |
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| No doubt the technical assessment is sound and benignly offered, but the mere voicing of it has a slight ring of presumptuousness. |
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| In a World Cup of spills and surprises, however, presumptuousness does not pay. |
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| There is a presumptuousness that the world should be doing everything that they are saying. |
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| In her opinion, Judaic biblical laws and tradition are sacred and unchangeable, and Kornfeld's presumptuousness in altering them makes him a pagan. |
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| The fact that their followers themselves do not have the intelligence to exercise even only the right of suffrage makes the presumptuousness much more ridiculous. |
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| Part of the shame has to do with a sense of presumptuousness. |
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| It would be madness and presumptuousness to even speak of it. |
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| Allison agrees that presumptuousness is a major turn-off for the girls. |
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| It did not seem implausible. Almost four years later, the presumptuousness of that commitment has been thoroughly exposed. |
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| It shows presumptuousness and arrogance on the part of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. |
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| With a presumptuousness never before seen, they went hat in hand to taxpayers in order to fill up their coffers. |
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| 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. |
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| Although senior officials stake the legitimacy of their inputs on strategic competence, no room is available for presumptuousness or perfectionism. |
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| Critics, from aboriginal people to scientists, have often noted the presumptuousness of our civilization's willingness to reach forward in time,borrowing from the future that which we can never repay. |
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| He also displayed a presumptuousness beyond measure, putting a politely discomfiting artistic performance on a level with an act that terrorized the entire world. |
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| The archbishop said to me, All these allegings that thou bringest forth, are nothing else but proud presumptuousness. |
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| 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. |
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