bumptiousness

As has been pointed out on social media — with all the post hoc bumptiousness of reply guys — International Olympic Committee rules dictate that mascots are not supposed to speak at all.

Or does Xi’s bumptiousness reflect something larger, perhaps more frightening and permanent: the united will of the 80 million-member Chinese Communist Party?

His bumptiousness is now so pronounced that it has passed into the clinical realm, and comes across as a kind of exhibitionism.

Yet the stage is more literal than the page, and there’s a bumptiousness to the vaudeville-grade performances that edges Thackeray’s wit and satire firmly into farce.

But Kim’s bumptiousness, including blithe defiance of repeated, unanimous UN security council condemnations and sanctions, does not mean that he is a man on the brink of losing the plot.