presumptuousness

Example Sentences

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Liverpool fans will hope that presumptuousness backfires but somehow I don't think it will.

From BBC • May 8, 2022

Some years, I’m irritated by the presumptuousness behind the sentimentality, or I feel angry about being drawn into a tortured narrative I want no part of.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2022

But one person’s presumptuousness is another’s winning audacity, and Crane’s overreach is among the many traits that fascinate Paul Auster, who himself has had a rich career as a novelist, poet, screenwriter and memoirist.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2021

To quote Seneca again, “Such is the presumptuousness of men that, although they may have received much, they count it an injury that they might have received more.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2018

Corrie had turned to him a glance so clear, a face so startling in its white resolution and dignity of fearless candor, that Gerard drew back with a sensation of rebuked presumptuousness.

From From the Car Behind by Flagg, James Montgomery