The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.    From LearnThat.org.  [Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)]

Tostig is furious at what he terms the insolence of the Northumbrians, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest] Reference

Whether or not you're going to 'suffer' what you call my insolence, I don't know, and I don't much care.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bronze Bell] Reference

The populace resented what they called the insolence and the treachery of France and the French ambassador was pelted at Canterbury as he drove to the seacoast on his recall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington and His Comrades in Arms; a chronicle of the War of Independence] Reference

What I desribe as insolence is what ERNurse puts in raw terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: Die Nanny State, Die] Reference

But insolence is of two kinds, benignant and malignant, or sustained insolence and fatuous insolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fatuous Insolence of the Canadians] Reference

Mr. Balfour called the insolence of the ultimatum "madness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902] Reference

Her insolence is the inoffensive insolence only possible to the well-bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]] Reference

She did everything to him except to tip him; and her insolence was the last straw.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fighting Chance] Reference

They'd have us think his insolence was the righteous eruption of principled dissent.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

It was in Aybas's mind to say that his insolence was a child's compared to that of Count Syzambry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Relentless]

What the British naval commanders call insolence, is no more than the undaunted expression of their natural and habitual independence.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself.] Reference

His reputation for insolence is well deserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Old Friend Liu Xiaobo] Reference

Despite his awkwardness, there was a kind of insolence to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crown of Swords]

There was no kind of insolence, injustice and barbarity of which they were not guilty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

Republicans were more than capable of what Southerners decried as arrogance and "insolence" in their sociology of the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essay: The Civil War taught us to fight for the right to be wrong] Reference

Read the insolence from a Wilson spokesperson.    From Wordnik.com.  [mjh's blog — 2006 — November] Reference

There was a kind of insolence which was visible in their tastes even.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renée Mauperin] Reference

I hold that I should be Ba, and also your Ba ... which is 'insolence' ... will you say?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]

It appeared to him as almost a kind of insolence, this abrupt departure—not even telephoning!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 19] Reference

It appeared to him as almost a kind of insolence, this abrupt departure -- not even telephoning!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Ambersons] Reference

All this gave M'Clutchy that imperturbable insolence which is inseparable from petty tyranny and licensed extortion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference

Stumble Left Brain / Right Brain dealt her a dollop of respectful insolence which is a very good read, as are the comments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autism Hub] Reference

The insolence of that servant was a revelation to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Serge looked contemptuously at Cayrol, and put on his hat with supreme insolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Or with the insolence of imagining that faulty usage betrays stupidity and turpitude?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Refudiate? Repudiate? Let's Call The Whole Thing Off] Reference

His profession is not so worthy as to occasion insolence, and yet no man so much puft up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference

Young men copied his frockcoat, his monocle, his gestures, his exquisite insolence, his amusing fads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

His terms, too, applied to honor and that abominable politeness in which there is servility and insolence!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

There was more in the business than met the eye, -- and a good deal more than he wished to meet mine, -- hence his insolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

Trampy seemed in a jovial mood, with his cigar in his mouth, his cheeks flushed with insolence, his eyes moist with libations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

At the least discussion, Lily felt it, she would have thrown the lamp at his head, so great was her indignation at his insolence!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

  Henry patted the cosmonaut's shoulders in a gesture meant to communicate solidarity, but merely fizzled into an awkward insolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember Me to the Motherland] Reference

He must behave with tame and passive insolence, never breaking into active effrontery excepting towards unprotected women and clergymen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference