presumptuousness

Example Sentences

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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

Both these people purport to have greater insight into her mother — and even herself — than Bea does, an objectifying presumptuousness that is threaded through the novel.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 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

Macron’s quest to fill that void has seen critics accuse him of staggering presumptuousness.

From The Guardian • Feb. 17, 2017

"I had forgotten it," he said bitterly, "but you forget nothing—nothing; years pass, and words spoken in the heedlessness of ignorance and the presumptuousness of youth, still live in your pitiless memory."

From Daisy Burns (Volume 2) by Kavanagh, Julia