Sentences with phrase «as insolence»

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Plato in the Apology quotes Socrates as saying to Meletus, one of his accusers: «You see, men of Athens, this fellow seems very arrogant and intemperate to me and to have written this indictment out of some sort of insolence, intemperance, and rashness.»

Ali gets away with the insolence because of astoundingly quick reflexes, speed of foot and an uncanny ability to gauge distance, as shown on the following pages.

Togbe Afede said he did not understand why politicians only frequent chiefs when elections approached and described that act as show of insolence to traditional authorities.

In response to press inquiries, Whittemore offered «insubordination and insolence» as reasons for the dismissal.

Bogart's harshness made him the best Spade and his insolence, in The Big Sleep, the most iconic Marlowe, though Lauren Bacall as Vivienne, the oldest and haughtiest of the idle - rich Sternwood sisters, and his accomplice in double - entendre wisecracking, was wiped off the screen by Martha Vickers as the thumb - chewing nympho Carmen (no matter that her lethalness was downplayed).

The modest and democratic tenants of his early practice continue in his material choices, as well as the theory of collage as a basic gesture of insolence, a social strategy for discord and for metaphysical beauty.

Given his disdain of France as a land of «poverty, slavery and insolence», it's a surprise to learn that the Hogarth exhibition in Paris, due to reach Tate Britain in February, has been the Louvre's most successful autumn exhibition for years.

You may, like Samuel Johnson, define a patron as «a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery,» but you want to reward attention with something more meaningful than that.

She writes: «It refers to the political uses, on both the right and the left, of insolence, impertinence, discourtesy, truculence, tactlessness, and intractability, as well as a particular skill in the art of timing the political.»

Due to this heartbreaking phenomenon, parental alienation has been considered a form of child abuse as it promotes an unhealthy parent - child relationship and this psychological manipulation has bred unwarranted distress, insolence or aggression to the other parent involved.