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Liverpool fans will hope that presumptuousness backfires but somehow I don't think it will.

From BBC

The report goes on to point out that Cawthorn's "public presumptuousness infuriated many North Carolina Republicans, including and especially the prominent and more veteran members of the state's GOP delegation."

From Salon

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.

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.

But one person’s presumptuousness is another’s winning audacity, and Crane’s overreach is among the many traits that fascinate Paul Auster, who himself has had a rich career as a novelist, poet, screenwriter and memoirist.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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