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"Look around you at these monstrosities of insanity, insolence, incompetence and degeneration," he declared in his opening address.

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Moscow accused Pashinyan of behaviour bordering on insolence, and on Friday summoned Armenia's ambassador to protest against "hostile steps".

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That was also evident in “the insolence and indifference that you are displaying here,” the judge added, according to another local news source.

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In a league that has absorbed the competitive nastiness of Bill Laimbeer and Ron Artest and John Stockton and Charles Oakley, Green may be the first player sent home for repeated insolence.

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Still, the infusion of black leather did what it always does: It reminded us what this particular material can always be counted on to suggest — insolence, light contempt, more than a little bit of attitude.

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