Sentences with phrase «impudence of»

Melissa Marks's character Volitia cavorts through her drawings with the impudence of Nabokov's Lolita and the sly pleasure of a cherub.

The impudence of a service personnel who breaks all protocols within the chains and channel of communication and command to attempt to getting the attention of the president by pouring inciteful sentiments on social media, with a delusional and myopic perception that he is a known maverick and avowed outspoken officer in uniform; such a joke

«The NCEF is also amazed at the impudence of the Sharia Council represented by Yusuf Rigachikun, and Abdulrahman Hassan who called for the prosecution of Gen. Danjuma.

Suarez and Messi both struck first - half doubles to take the game away from Girona, who paid for the impudence of taking a third - minute lead through Portu in their first visit to the Nou Camp.

Not exact matches

Instead, Harvey resorts to talking about the «utter impudence» of Pfau's article and making a rather vague clarification that the DALBAR method calculates returns that investors «recognize as returns, not what the investments produce».

In the case of Osama bin Laden and his colleagues, it was the result of impudence and a lack of grounding in the Islamic tradition.

• The prohibition of actions leading to the misuse of particular properties, and of lahw [amusement] and mujun [impudence].

There were shameless teachers of impudence (Compare Thrasymachus in Plato's Republic I. 16, 20.)

The parent, in being treated with what you refer to as «impudence» is not being «seen» or not being recognized for who she is, namely an adult deserving of respect.

However, «impudence» is an adult interpretation of a child's behavior and that is not usually the child's intention.

Who is financing the NPP under Akufo - Addo to warrant the impudence that motivates their kind of campaign for Election 2016?

Politics is about witticism and not hooliganism; it calls for decency, not their kind of impudence and bullying.

«Hence, the possibility to declare him (Akyem - Abuakwahene, Amotia Ofori Panyin), persona non grata for such display of gross wantonness and impudence.

Beginning in the neolithic period, Reese Palley delightfully traces the mix of innovation and impudence that make up the 7000 - year history of artificial stone.

I'm kind communicative guy, I hate when peoples are lying!I have a good sense of humor, blue eyes and a little bit impudence & i like sport games

Aunt Fanny and George are a pair of lost souls, George especially is filled with impudence yet doesn't really understand why things happen around him the way they do, only that they don't happen the way he wishes.

When Brooke enters the film down the tall red staircase behind Time Square's half - price ticket booth, it's a triumph of impudence.

He persuasively emulates the impudence, arrogance, charm, and single - mindedness of the French entertainer and acrobat.

The genius of the performance lies in the way Williams stresses the interconnectedness of these personalities: The neediness fuels the impudence, the vulnerability turns sexually provocative, and the little girl and sexpot together drive the screen role.

We're offered declarations of extreme displeasure — a character forced to deep - throat a Bowie knife, another partaking in cadaver diddling, the proverbial death of innocence — but these grand moments of visual revelation creep up sans the proper subtext but still manage a choice respite from Refn's overweening impudence.

There is some impudence in trying to improve on «the greatest story ever told», but then who among us isn't already familiar with Jesus» life, whether or not you hear selections of it on a yearly, weekly, or even daily basis.

By all rights, this lone mortal should not have stood a chance, walking into the lair of a deity and slaying her with impudence.

In 1877, John Ruskin derided Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket after the artist, James McNeill Whistler, showed it at Grosvenor Gallery: [30] «I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.»

Gallery Connections has always been a particularly popular piece because of its impudence toward the introspective world of private art dealers and it epitomised how Fairhurst welcomed a more inclusive contemporary art scene.

This is to say that the show is taxing, partly because Kelley's art is itself often stress - inducing, concerned as it is with giving stage to images of trauma and giving form to anxieties that society would otherwise repress — and doing it with a fierce impudence and black humor that has been aptly classified as punk.

Masterpieces of his particular brand of canine portrait art include: «The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner» (1837, Victoria and Albert Museum), and «Dignity and Impudence» (1839, Tate Britain).

«The Pardoner, a seller of indulgences, is a complete and shameless rogue; but Chaucer, not content with exposing his impudence, shows how good he was at his job and how powerfully he preached against sinfulness.