presumptuousness

How To Use presumptuousness In A Sentence

• Although he places Socrates above everyone else, Alcibiades in his presumptuousness wants to make an exchange between equals; he seeks to swap his own beauty for the other's knowledge.
• His presumptuousness is reflected in his opening moves and extreme appointments, which pour more salt on racial wounds.
• My presumptuousness is like a dull hit to the back of my head now. Global Voices in English » Palestine: Allowed No Passage
• Movies made with the full intention of shining during the autumn Academy Awards selection season often come across as graceless, lumbering creatures - disjointed messes that fall victim to their own pomposity and presumptuousness.
• It would be madness and presumptuousness to even speak of it.
• In a World Cup of spills and surprises, however, presumptuousness does not pay.
• The reaction in Scotland would be outrage at such presumptuousness - so what makes us think we can get away with exactly the sort of thing we've complained about for years?
• More importantly, when the gust of his presumptuousness had blown over, a quick glance around the cabin showed that he had a point.
• Now, I realise the presumptuousness of my thought and understand why they did not fear me.
• Even so, the literary life — the rivalries of authors, the intrusiveness of biographers, the presumptuousness of critics especially academics — revolted him. A Phony Who Reformed