Sentences with phrase «seem impertinent»

Why should they, since prevailing hegemonies don't need to justify themselves — their preferences and prejudices appear to them as manifestly «common sense», and challenges to their authority seem impertinent and obtuse.

In contrast, asking questions which seem impertinent or irrelevant may strike the alcoholic as prying into his private affairs.

Please, forgive me if I seem impertinent.

I suspect it is» it would seem impertinent, to say the least, to argue with the founding fathers on the point» but I do want to complicate the argument just a bit.

In the light of all this, it almost seems impertinent to speak of Jesus» weakness when only the greatest of martyrs have been able to share, in some measure, his cup of suffering but without being able to absorb the anguish in the way that he did.

He replied with a verse of Scripture that was notably appropriate but must have seemed impertinent to the priests and elders (Ps 8:2): «Yes; have you never read.

Not exact matches

But that quibble seems almost impertinent today, when the main task is to repel the invasion of the ideologues and to restore sanity to art history.

Michael E Mann, an eminent person terrified of impertinent Tweeters, is a big part of the shut - up culture that has so deformed «climate activism» that calling on the state to criminalize dissent now seems entirely normal to them.

Be it impertinent, it still seemed something that should have provoked at least some reflection of the part of the guys who do this sort of thing.