| I was so presumptuous as simply to indicate that without even giving you the courtesy of asking you. |
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| Despite presumptuous pinheads who think they have her character pegged down to a sexy little stereotype, it's her voice that draws attention. |
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| Her speech was not frivolous nor her words presumptuous but in every way she behaved with utmost propriety. |
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| Well, I don't to be presumptuous, but I assume it was anticipated there would be this type of focus. |
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| I fear that I was presumptuous enough to tell him that he did not seem to have the central point quite right. |
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| It was presumptuous to the point of being arrogant, and it can be fairly said that it has left a very sour taste all round. |
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| Being the presumptuous boy he was, he thought he would be coming inside my house. |
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| It was presumptuous of a mere administrator to parade in public talking about the coming era of molecular medicine. |
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| I want to think people are kind and generous and helpful, not spiteful, rude, presumptuous and threatening. |
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| She acts sweet, kind and nice on the outside, but inside she's as rude and presumptuous as I am. |
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| Not that I am presumptuous enough to compare myself to them of course, but that is the price you pay for free speech, apparently. |
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| That was a phenomenal mistake and his own presumptuous arrogance led to his downfall. |
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| It is presumptuous and oppressive to suggest that other cultures want the liberties we take for granted, their argument runs. |
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| It's all rather presumptuous to offer your opinion when you don't really know the person very well. |
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| I think it would be presumptuous to offer a guarantee, but what I can say to you is that it is absolutely at the heart of our thinking. |
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| It's the voice of the Nanny State at its lecturing, presumptuous, arrogant, illogical and whiny worst. |
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| Beware of a presumptuous and thankless person who tends to take advantage of your good nature. |
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| Where earlier historians had read ancient authors with deference and credulity, he approached their works with presumptuous skepticism. |
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| Beware of a thankless and presumptuous person who expects too much from you without contributing himself in any way. |
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| And I'm presumptuous enough to assume that people might actually take the time to misunderstand me. |
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| It is, of course, utterly presumptuous to declare the race over before a single vote has been cast. |
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| Organizations are powerful tools, however recalcitrant, but they can also be very presumptuous and overconfident. |
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| To those I would add presumptuous, imperious, overweening and authoritarian. |
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| I feel rather presumptuous to be the first person to speak on a fundamental issue. |
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| I am not so presumptuous as to consider that this process is the perfect panacea for everyone. |
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| I guess I'm not presumptuous enough to declare how it turned out for me. |
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| Such a position is presumptuous on the one hand and unnecessary on the other. |
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| Yesterday, my solicitor entered my bed-chamber unsummoned, a presumptuous act for which I once would have had him flayed three times about the court-yard. |
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| It is deplorable that the government's impotency in dealing with illegal labor movements has given union workers a presumptuous belief in bullying tactics. |
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| Well, she acknowledges, as we sit together drinking tea and nibbling chocolate digestives in the garden of their Victorian house, it is presumptuous, writing your memoirs. |
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| An overbearing man, a man who was presumptuous, or vainglorious: these men were brassy offenders. |
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| What had seemed the ultimate in singing from the 17th to well into the 19th century was now anathematized as presumptuous frippery. |
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| Martin's presumptuous and unproven speculation borders on the absurd. |
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| I see the ability to be alone in the wild as an achievement, something truly radical that strikes at the root of our increasingly presumptuous levels of socialization. |
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| It would be presumptuous of me to declare anyone the next great player, for only time decides these questions. |
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| I would not be so presumptuous, 18 hours after being named, to speak knowledgably about the inside. |
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| He's an ultracrepidarian person, an ignorant presumptuous critic. |
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| Felix's presumptuous action is barely less nettlesome than his withholding and patronizing behavior toward a teenage student who develops a crush on him. |
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| Call this presumptuous arrogance or call it faith in our selves. |
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| This is a disrespectful vocation by its nature – prying, voyeuristic, kleptomaniacal, and presumptuous. |
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| It would be presumptuous to claim that the hybrid technology has already attained the zenith of its development. |
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| I think it is a little presumptuous, though, to suggest that the scientific community speaks with a single voice on this issue. |
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| The self-absorbed bewitchment of an historical culture, presumptuous and convinced of its own perennial triumphant destinies? |
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| The minister's fiscal update was as audacious as it was inaccurate, as presumptuous as it was pompous, and as fatuous as it was fictitious. |
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| We weren't presumptuous nitwits who have a few bucks, came from Europe and knew everything best. |
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| Critics said she was aloof, detached and presumptuous, and later criticised her for conducting a tour of the state in a chartered helicopter. |
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| With success not assured, it might be presumptuous to identify critical success factors. |
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| Clearly, David Cameron has his eye on the rural vote, but isn't this rather presumptuous? |
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| One cannot anticipate and I think it would be presumptuous to think otherwise. |
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| That is presumptuous and offends the customs and practices of other countries. |
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| The Government however acknowledges that it would be presumptuous to claim that torture has been totally eradicated in Kenya. |
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| I know I may be being presumptuous, but my view is that parliament should be more than just a post hoc scrutinising body. |
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| Was this a hostile act by a presumptuous male painter? |
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| At this point of the discussion, it is fair to wonder if it might not have been presumptuous to hope to try to establish a catalog of the complete works, or to boldly affirm today that we have succeeded. |
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| It might balance out my presumptuous stupidity. |
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| I don't want to be presumptuous because many of you have thought about this a great deal more than have I. But I want to have as a prefatory comment the following: I've never seen an issue so extraordinarily well-documented. |
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| The university must be able to grasp them, without being either presumptuous or pusillanimous, if it is to remain worthy of its calling and contribute to the shaping of the future. |
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| Expanding abroad is something people don't think about early on, it seems wildly presumptuous but actually the way you structure your business makes quite a big difference. |
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| The idea of a Washington-London-Bucharest axis is perhaps somewhat presumptuous, but, as we look forward to this country joining us in the EU, I believe that it will cooperate effectively and well with us. |
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| However, it held that it would be presumptuous to assume that the Republic of Greece did not have the facilities to care for an autistic child in a comparable way to the care the child was receiving in Australia. |
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| The Federal Council takes the view that it would be presumptuous to give an exact definition of a sustainable future and for this to be set in stone and implemented. |
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| For a small country it would be presumptuous to want to go it alone. |
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| Further, it would be presumptuous as regards the wishes of the Somali people on the issue of a democratic constitution and the holding of elections. |
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| I don't like Option 4, because it is too presumptuous. |
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| It would therefore be presumptuous to expect that the concept of «the state» can be easily exported worldwide, that it can be adapted to fit every civilization in the world, and can be implemented within a few decades. |
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| It would be presumptuous to say that the same conditions favouring such a fast resumption of nesting exist in Quebec as well, but it would be quite easy to check this out at little cost. |
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| Touching the ecosystem dynamic, if this does not seem too presumptuous, was to share in the adventure of this night, having a modicum of influence but no control. |
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| Bentley was considered presumptuous, and was attacked in the following year by Zachary Pearce. |
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| In the Summa Contra Gentiles he explains: «It is useful for the human mind to exercise itself in such reasoning, however feeble, provided there is no presumptuous hope of perfect comprehension or demonstration. |
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| The Cosmos is flux, a stormy river that never stops, and there is no human device that can effectively delimitate or structure it: our Magician is a presumptuous yet able fellow. |
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| Since then, his campaign sometimes seemed snake-bitten as it dodged hecklers and a drumbeat of presumptuous questions about life after No. 10 Downing Street. |
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| Fortitude of heart is the confidence and boldness of faith that is reverent but not horripilated, hopeful but not presumptuous, heroic but not ambitious. |
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