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    Early skyscrapers (category History of construction)
    business, or wealth. We could not help an involuntary smile at the impertinence [impudence] of the assertion, as we believed we could find as good stores on...
    113 KB (14,205 words) - 19:49, 9 June 2024
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    youngster, skirting the perils of bathos in her tender scenes and playing her rebellious ones with comic impertinence. Throughout these years, Fellows's...
    17 KB (2,064 words) - 10:22, 28 October 2023
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    Mozart, l'opéra rock (category Cultural depictions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
    unable to overcome. France Soir described the show as "lacking genius and impertinence," weighed down by "a disjointed first act," "simpering" female characters...
    28 KB (3,934 words) - 07:49, 23 May 2024
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    Beau Brummell (category Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford)
    did this touching a coat. Brummell examined his Grace with the cool impertinence which was his Grace's due. He turned him about, scanned him with scrutinizing...
    34 KB (4,071 words) - 19:27, 20 June 2024
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    persons in their retinue and every conceivable impertinence... The same ceremonies are observed in the interior of their apartments here as were formerly at...
    28 KB (3,482 words) - 00:35, 18 May 2024
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    except a large crowd and a very bad work. It is the height of indecency, boredom, and impertinence." The work received one performance at the marriage...
    19 KB (2,055 words) - 07:55, 2 May 2024
  • in public with “unheard of impertinence.” This is one of the reasons he became suspect. He had also befriended the owner of a jewelry shop, but he did...
    15 KB (2,212 words) - 20:54, 14 December 2023
  • cheeky * impertinent; noun form, cheek, impertinence; a child answering back to an adult might be told "don't give me any of your cheek" (also there is the expression...
    133 KB (15,571 words) - 12:16, 8 June 2024
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    returned to Lichfield, but Hunter, the headmaster, "angered by the impertinence of this long absence", refused to allow Johnson to continue at the school...
    110 KB (13,768 words) - 19:56, 19 June 2024
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    of Peasants in which he castigated peasants for unspeakable crimes, not only for the murder of the nobles at Weinsberg, but also for the impertinence...
    66 KB (8,818 words) - 14:46, 30 April 2024
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    persons in their retinue and every conceivable impertinence... The same ceremonies are observed in the interior of their apartments here as were formerly at...
    41 KB (5,201 words) - 09:48, 18 May 2024
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    Sumptuary law (category History of clothing)
    convenience of sumptuary laws, he wrote: "of It is the highest impertinence and presumption... in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private...
    43 KB (5,395 words) - 02:14, 29 May 2024
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    Almack's (category Defunct clubs and societies of the United Kingdom)
    danced together all night & took the upper end of the room, which was considered a great impertinence." By 1837, matters had so far changed that the gallopade...
    54 KB (8,433 words) - 19:38, 28 February 2024
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    to the point of eliciting animosity, whether faked or real, in whoever uses the word; any character flaw (e.g., obnoxiousness, impertinence, general unpleasantness...
    93 KB (12,637 words) - 15:46, 1 June 2024
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    look at him, Lambert told him that the horse in question was "by Impertinence out of Curiosity". Sensitive about his weight, Daniel Lambert refused to...
    49 KB (6,304 words) - 08:23, 7 June 2024
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    right, sought from the Emperor of Morocco restitution for some goods confiscated, and was burnt alive for his impertinence. His widow made her woes clear...
    156 KB (17,945 words) - 18:20, 9 June 2024
  • November. Alfonso de Cartagena was not done. Eager to punish Henry for his impertinence, the Castilian diplomat submitted more claims – urging the pope to restore...
    75 KB (10,763 words) - 15:04, 11 April 2024
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    description of the play itself or its effect upon the mind, is mere impertinence". Yet what he did write turned out to be a major piece of literary criticism...
    153 KB (22,669 words) - 14:23, 13 April 2024
  • Barry's score in particular: ... a waste of public money, an impertinence and an insult, an invitation to a feast of nothing... The score was Hollywood-inspirational...
    5 KB (711 words) - 22:42, 24 May 2022
  • has no knowledge of the message. Irritated at the unexpected interruption, he canes all the juniors except Mauleverer for impertinence. Loder tells Mauleverer...
    57 KB (9,274 words) - 20:33, 3 September 2023
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