| What scared me wasn't his boorishness but the way he sounded delighted, as if he'd just realized these insights. |
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| He swung from laying on the charm to cold-eyed boorishness and rudeness with alarming alacrity. |
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| His boorishness has always been a display of power, never of passionate desire. |
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| But I look around me and I see too much introverted, narrow-minded, self-congratulating boorishness. |
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| More troubling is a weakness for the company of the super-rich and a reputation for boorishness. |
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| We love a stoush as much as the next political junkie, but the performance of these two in the past week has crossed the threshold into boorishness. |
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| In Nigel Farage – of the turf turfy, of the beer beery, a man of the people – bar-room boorishness found authentic expression. |
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| Such boorishness becomes cruel and vicious when it assumes a public aspect. |
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| Unfortunately, there were moments of pure indulgence, drunken boorishness and rambling unintelligible poetry midway through the evening. |
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| In recent years the media have raised boorishness to an art form. |
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| Not if the public shows that it will not countenance boorishness. |
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| For two centuries after George II's death, history tended to view him with disdain, concentrating on his mistresses, short temper and boorishness. |
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