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"presumptuous" Definitions
  1. too confident, in a way that shows a lack of respect for other people

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It would be presumptuous to assume anyone would care, yeah?
He doesn't bear witness — an overused and often presumptuous idea.
She showed up with no pitches, which seems a little presumptuous.
But the strategy was presumptuous, and the follow-through was questionable.
Against a buzzing forest din, the neighborhood is presumptuous and pesky.
Of course, the presumptuous and biased moderators fed into that obsession.
McCrory campaign spokesman Ricky Diaz called that claim presumptuous with counting incomplete.
At times it felt presumptuous, mourning people none of us really knew.
They've accused her of faking it with Photoshop, and of being presumptuous.
Such presumptuous behaviour will test the famous fiery tempers of Chongqing-ites.
"Welcome to Washington, Donald," Ryan says, shaking hands with the presumptuous nominee.
"You feel so presumptuous to even think about it," he said quietly.
I find it almost presumptuous to expect such certainty of the future.
Of course, I was being an idiot, and a presumptuous one at that.
In ten years, though, who knows, maybe "AI" will seem somewhat less presumptuous.
Presumptuous, to be sure, but I have lots of practice doing just this.
My pathetic effort to console Captain Nguyen had been both presumptuous and inadequate.
However, it's presumptuous to think that America would aspire to be like Finland.
"It's presumptuous to think you could do this without money," Mr. Morissette said.
No, I was not presumptuous and ungrateful enough to say such a thing.
Standards are presumptuous, though, because, really, what do we know about "old" rappers?
It wouldn't be presumptuous of me to say that you've never bought one.
I hope I'm not being presumptuous by fitting Raghubir Singh into this idiom.
"I worry it seems presumptuous, or worse, makes the night feel routinized," he said.
The word "Americanism" would offend many religious elites of today as chauvinistic and presumptuous.
You pick the second person, the only mode that seems aggressive, obnoxious, presumptuous enough.
Did you think it was presumptuous somehow to agree to a play about you?
I don't want to be presumptuous, since my condition is stable but still serious.
And how would I convey this message without any hurt feelings or being presumptuous?
To presume greater enlightenment than anybody else would be presumptuous, dishonest and, above all, selfish.
This one is too long and a little presumptuous, especially if you're cold-emailing someone.
Neither campaign is eager to discuss the process in detail for fear of looking presumptuous.
Mockrin crops this scene down to the dainty foot, lost shoe, and presumptuous, plucking hand.
The second is just too "in your face," while the last objective sounds overly presumptuous.
I don't want to be presumptuous, I don't want to be premature in my criticism.
But Walker said it would be presumptuous of him to take credit for Trump's reversal.
Having queer representation in front of and behind the camera helps make the analogy less presumptuous.
This is where people can easily make the mistake of coming off as arrogant or presumptuous.
There is one piece of this news that might strike some people as a bit presumptuous.
How ridiculously presumptuous to assume that every women entering the facility was there for an abortion.
That he avows atheism, as opposed to agnosticism, does not strike him as presumptuous or arrogant.
I thought that was rather presumptuous, assuming such a narrow range of experience on my part.
Detractors consider him a presumptuous climber who out-demagogued populists in a ruthless grab at power.
Critics said the administration's request to bypass ordinary appellate procedures in the transgender cases was presumptuous.
Recently he made it clear that he also resented Boeing as being presumptuous and typically condescending.
That Mr. Simons is willing to offer an answer is both risky — and a little presumptuous.
Nobody's watching The Exorcist, so calling it a "show of the moment" feels a bit presumptuous.
"Expecting to be speaker regardless of whether you have member support is presumptuous," Mr. Torres said.
Biden said he didn't want to be presumptuous, but then he hinted that he might select Buttigieg.
I find it presumptuous of her to expect a lavish celebration and unfair to our other parents.
She has to avoid being presumptuous at all costs in order for the party to come together.
It would be pretty presumptuous to assume that vegetarians eat meat-free sausages purely for health reasons.
Costello said he's open to expanding his firm but is not being too presumptuous from the start.
Critically: Signing someone up for a subscription, even if you prepay the first year, can seem presumptuous.
I could not help but laugh because it was so preposterous, and so presumptuous, and self-serving.
"I think it is the most arrogant thing in the universe, this is beyond presumptuous," Scarazzo tells PEOPLE.
JC: I don't really dispense advice because I think it's presumptuous — everybody has to find their own path.
I DON'T WANT TO BE PRESUMPTUOUS, BUT YOU'VE SPENT 45 YEARS MORE OR LESS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR.
I think it would be a bit presumptuous to jump into the role expecting to pump out shows.
Mr. Ty Song said he did not want to be too presumptuous in speculating about his forebears' desires.
When that's the situation, it might feel too presumptuous or cocky to pack a just-in-case bag.
It's kind of presumptuous, like these are our chums and we love them even though they are silly.
As I was to find out, I was actually horribly presumptuous about the people who attend these events.
Avoid asking questions that pertain to topics like benefits or vacation days because you'll come across as presumptuous.
It is presumptuous to imagine a God who picks favorites and sometimes punishes people for no good reason.
Call it cliché, vain, or presumptuous all you want — it's a move everyone has thought about at least once.
It's presumptuous to place confidence in any theories about what happens when atoms are smashed together with unprecedented energy.
"I'm not going to get ahead of something and be presumptuous when a decision hasn't been made," Sanders said.
Analysts say it is also presumptuous to assume any North Korean who goes abroad would immediately want to move.
KAINE: I HAVE NO IDEA ANYTHING IN THE CABINET BECAUSE THAT WOULD SUGGEST WE ARE PRESUMPTUOUS AND WE ARE NOT.
Voters might find it presumptuous for a candidate to name his prospective running mate while trailing by several hundred delegates.
Many people, in his shoes, would find it presumptuous to speak — having overheard just one side of your personal conversations.
"Issuing what looks like a news release before issuing an interpretation seems presumptuous and maybe a little panicky," he said.
My one quibble with this storyline: Do we really think smarty-pants know-it-all Dustin wouldn't know what "presumptuous" meant?
It felt a little presumptuous, and this was the first time Ive started to come off as a bit of blowhard.
It's also very presumptuous to assume that all of the graduates receiving their diplomas want to hear jabs against the president.
The ultimate takeaway is that investors shouldn't be too presumptuous when using the yield curve to predict equity and bond returns.
" Conway added: "We're not doing it because we're presumptuous, I think the way my friends across the aisle are doing it.
When that was reported to Hitler, he picked up a map to look for this presumptuous place he'd never heard of.
In that first book, Sansa is a bit haughty and presumptuous, and then she later becomes a prisoner of a tyrant.
That's even a little presumptuous: Wright hasn't written a formal emoji proposal, and has no plans to do so right now.
That way you can make sure it is coming across as a humble inquiry, not a presumptuous and tone-deaf demand.
If he had been more confident, that is, or presumptuous, even—if he'd jokingly pointed out her glaring and abundant complicity.
"It's presumptuous to think you can come up with a plan for black America without hearing from black folk," he said.
I've pushed back on men who said presumptuous things to me online, and sometimes they engaged with thoughtful questions and responses.
I think that to say that he has any idea of what his philosophy of life is right now would be presumptuous.
While it would be "presumptuous" to agree, "If memory serves, when I started out all color was absent from fashion," he added.
It doesn't feel as presumptuous to me as writing a novel did, maybe because I know so many television writers and screenwriters.
"It's a bit presumptuous," said Elizabeth K. Meyer, a landscape architect appointed to the Commission of Fine Arts by President Barack Obama.
Please do not contact me again as I don't know NSDUH methodology and would not be so presumptuous to believe I did.
Even now, I wonder if it's presumptuous of me to make an argument on behalf of such a broad and disparate group.
He is doing his job, and it is presumptuous of you to believe that you should be able to control his mood.
She called him a "great partner in this fight," but said it was "way too presumptuous" to start discussing potential running mates.
To presuppose what any state is going to do is presumptuous and we'll wait and see what happens there or anywhere else.
" Biden said it might be "presumptuous of me to say this, but I've always been engaged with the community my whole career.
To presuppose what any state is going to do is presumptuous, and we'll wait and see what happens there or anywhere else.
And then, because it sounds, you know, presumptuous, but nobody was writing it, so I thought, well, you know, if not now, when?
But in the same way that western settlers came to the real American frontier seeing an empty landscape, Barlow's metaphor making was presumptuous.
If such a plug directly to the boss was bold and presumptuous for a young staffer, Gayle says he just went for it.
" Dallek told The Hill that it's "a bit presumptuous at this early date to predict that a primary challenge will aid Trump politically.
In interviews across the country, Republican voters suggested that Mr. Romney's move was presumptuous and described him as out of touch and ineffectual.
But why am I so arrogant and presumptuous as to think these strangers want to date or sleep with me—or my girlfriend?
He could antagonize Sanders supporters if he is seen as presumptuous and seems to be pushing the Vermont senator out of the race.
At several points, he pays explicit homage to George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," and those gestures are humble rather than presumptuous.
Dombrowski said it was presumptuous, with a long season ahead and the Yankees always looming, to plan on reprising that plan this October.
Asked if he would consider the shooting an accident, Johnson said it would be presumptuous to offer any judgment before the investigations were completed.
The frontrunner to replace Theresa May as prime minister said he would not be so "presumptuous" as to say Darroch would keep his job.
While Mr. Biden often says it is "presumptuous" to discuss a running mate, he has something of a routine down when asked about it.
I don't want to be presumptuous or betray some journalistic line by saying that Scott and I were friends, but we were certainly friendly.
When "Porgy" was first staged , in 1935, some classical insiders saw it as a presumptuous gesture on the part of a pop-music interloper.
"I also would suggest that Secretary Clinton may want to be not quite so presumptuous about thinking that she is a certain winner," Sanders added.
"We call it the White House Christmas tree," Schultz told me, before offering a preemptive defense of something she fears will be misinterpreted as presumptuous.
Others don't bring anything because they don't want to jinx their chances of getting laid, almost like they don't want to appear presumptuous to themselves.
" Meier echoes this sentiment: "It is presumptuous and can be considered rude to plan an event with the thought that your friends will chip in.
Brady added that the team may also be too presumptuous that the effectiveness of the vaccine is driven solely by whether people have been infected.
Why would you take this on given you had a strong reputation, you would made plenty of money it would seem – not to be presumptuous.
In the most presumptuous move of the year, Gus says he thought Mickey would have more to "unpack" since he graced her with a kiss.
The move is low-stakes because if someone accuses you of adding them with romantic or inappropriate intent, you can accuse them of being presumptuous.
They added that the assumption of the Fed moving the expectation to zero hikes this year would be "somewhat presumptuous", though that is OCBC's view.
Without knowing the situation on the ground or in the region more two years from now, why would you even make such a presumptuous promise?
Thus, it may be presumptuous to build the full benefit into 2018's projections and Street hopes of a very large boost may be disappointed.
His closest aides felt it would be presumptuous for the young candidate to appear to be making demands of Merkel before he was even elected.
"It was thought presumptuous—this is way before the age of creative-writing programs, and writers, to be serious, ought to be dead," she recalled.
Here are three effective questions to help you ask about promotions in an interview without looking presumptuous: Companies attract competitive candidates by offering growth opportunities.
Let us all — wherever and whenever — live on what the world's timekeepers call Coordinated Universal Time, or U.T.C. (though "earth time" might be less presumptuous).
"It is too presumptuous of us to say this is the final report," said Mr. Kok, a former director general of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Department.
But first, let me say: I am not hopeful about where we are as a nation — as a species (if I can be so presumptuous).
Congress was wrong in rushing to impeach the president over these evidentiary disputes, and its second article was both premature and presumptuous in claiming obstruction.
Hensarling said senators were being "presumptuous and naive" to think the House wouldn't demand changes and assert its role as an equal chamber of Congress.
But without a voice in the European Parliament or a way to make money on YouTube, that might actually be a little presumptuous for Benjamin.
Not to be presumptuous about it, but those are very common threads that I get from people, and that was my goal in a simple way.
Besides being stupidly presumptuous, don't you think the old-time grapplers who wrestled shirtless thought the people who wore singlets back then were coddled little cowards?
Sure, it may come in a gold tube and have a presumptuous-sounding name, but at its core, this is just a really good, basic mascara.
The presumptuous Beltway outsider figured he could buck the rules of the Washington game, by stabbing his enemies in the front rather than in the back.
This is obviously presumptuous to even consider, but since you asked, I am a huge fan and adoring admirer of both David McCullough and Jon Meacham.
Not only is this presumptuous but it's arguably the exception rather than the rule; it's not just Latin America where bending the rules is the norm.
We could have used that strategy, but we didn't because we thought it was presumptuous to tell the I.O.C. what to do and how to think.
On the other hand, it would be presumptuous to assume that whoever sold the item in the first place isn't acting in their own best interest.
She is a strangely passive-aggressive biographer — too timid to analyze Brown's life in any large and meaningful way, yet presumptuous enough to speak for her.
But Hensarling insisted they were being "presumptuous and naive" to think the House wouldn't demand changes and assert its role as an equal chamber of Congress.
Piazzi was understandably peeved at this presumptuous attitude, especially since he had already named the object after Ceres, the patron goddess of his adopted home of Sicily.
I'm honestly a little bit offended and my friends help me craft a message that is civil but also conveys my disappointment at how presumptuous he's being.
It would be presumptuous to say these acts are influenced by Tyler directly but you can't overstate the legwork he put in to allow them to flourish.
Still, it feels wrong to outsource the work of salvation to Bill and Melinda Gates , and presumptuous to trust too much in the power of good works.
"At the end of Season 2300, they were passing out T-shirts, and George turned to me and said, 'This is kind of presumptuous,'" Mr. Cardea recalled.
One vituperative national columnist called her 'impudent, presumptuous and conspiratorial,' and said that 'her withdrawal from public life at this time would be a fine public service.
It would be presumptuous of me to recommend a book to him — and the truth is, I'd much rather take a book recommendation from him than give one.
And while they are all a bit or a lot presumptuous in nature, they are much more plausible and popular than his earlier brashness on immigration and trade.
It's pretty fucking presumptuous to say that I could insert myself on to its Mount Rushmore cover that's got Lou Reed and Tolstoy and Andy Warhol in it.
We're not so presumptuous to think that we know what the future looks like, but we're confident that when it walks through the door we sometimes recognize it.
Its problem is that it might be too smart for its own good, aloof and presumptuous about how much its audience can deduce without explaining more of itself.
Instead of the tug-of-war, macho handshake he gave French President Emmanuel Macron, he initiated a brief touch of the upper arm ... nothing too aggressive or presumptuous.
This seems presumptuous for at least a couple of very obvious reasons, but I will share the photo with you here anyway as a matter of journalistic praxis.
In less than two months we've moved from uncovering accusations of criminal behavior (Harvey Weinstein) to criminalizing behavior that we previously regarded as presumptuous and boorish (Glenn Thrush).
I had it in my head that it would be presumptuous to seek out any materials or communities for autistic people if I wasn't a certified real autistic.
On Monday, Mr. Biden made a point of noting that it was presumptuous to talk about a running mate, given that he has not won the Democratic nomination.
"The French might have been presumptuous, or a bit too clever, in seeing Trump only as an opportunity," Célia Belin, a former French diplomat now at Brookings, tells me.
Any echoes you may infer regarding a certain Danish prince are entirely appropriate to this dazzlingly presumptuous drama, set in and around Buckingham Palace in a highly foreseeable future.
Johnson, the front-runner to replace Prime Minister Theresa May as Conservative Party leader, said he's "not going to be so presumptuous" on what date Darroch leaves his job.
Ehrlich: I think our whole trajectory — this might be a little presumptuous — but with our trajectory right now, this might be the only SXSW we play as this project.
Since we're well aware of how much the president reads — something like 20 books a year, I'm told — it would be presumptuous of me to suggest anything to him.
"Without being presumptuous, most of us in the field feel that we will get a vaccine for Zika," Dr. Fauci said recently, his staccato Brooklyn accent underscoring his confidence.
A Bloomberg campaign memo positioning himself as the only candidate who could challenge Sanders for the Democratic nomination seemed premature even before Saturday's results; now, it seems downright presumptuous.
"I also would suggest that Secretary Clinton may want to be not quite so presumptuous about thinking that she is a certain winner," Sanders said in a sharply worded statement.
On the issue of who he would pick to be his vice president should he get the Democratic nomination, Biden said it's "presumptuous" to talk about it at this stage.
The clear implication was that Mr Salvini's offer was more presumptuous than conciliatory—though this in itself is a perhaps deliberate failure to recognise the true status of Mr Salvini.
" He warned of "the awful calamity of abortion and sodomy and perverse behavior and murders and shootings and road rage" as "a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins.
Because pre-election transition planning has been viewed as presumptuous or arrogant, many candidates have been tight-lipped about whether planning is even occurring, let alone whether lobbyists are involved.
I never asked to write new Hercule Poirot novels — I would never have been so presumptuous, and to be honest it wouldn't have occurred to me in a million years.
While I don't like to read the minds of showrunners—or, rather, I love to, but it's presumptuous—I suspect that Schur is in a very bad mood these days.
"Even if the race is winnowed down to one-on-one, I think that it's presumptuous to think that one person would have an easy time against Donald Trump," he said.
Zuck wrote this manifesto about a year ago saying that, and it sounded very presumptuous at the time, but the more you think about it the more you realize he's right.
"I would not be so presumptuous as to guess Emily's reaction to my appointment as a creative partner at the museum, were she alive today," Ms. Cole said in her statement.
"It is somehow presumptuous for South Korea to meddle in the personal relations between Chairman of the State Affairs Commission Kim Jong Un and President Trump," said the North Korean advisor.
You know how often these things are really dictated by what they report, so to be so presumptuous is to be able to say what they're going to say ahead of time.
Washington (CNN)A Congressional Black Caucus leader said Friday that it is "a bit presumptuous" for Bernie Sanders to conclude he is the best candidate to improve race relations in America. Rep.
On it, he raps over most of the Black Album tracks, which seems a little presumptuous in hindsight but, also in hindsight, works out OK because we know where it was headed.
Joe, who was Amanda's companion, went to the bar as he had no interest in meeting Stassi, and I soon learned that I was being presumptuous by assuming he was her boyfriend.
" That balance is where the critical consensus lies: whether or not the album works as a whole, Queen isn't a presumptuous title, as Minaj is still undeniably, to quote Billboard, "rap royalty.
"To assume that it's just restricted to these few square blocks is presumptuous," said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
After the long crisis over the euro – an undertaking that has caused Europe immeasurable economic and now political damage – it is presumptuous for the EU to talk about 'shocks' to the world economy.
This brave new "Streetcar," which originated at the Young Vic in London, takes a lot of presumptuous risks, yet most of them pay off, at least for as long as you're watching it.
The way I present online may be the only way some people get a glimpse of my personality and life––including presumptuous strangers who read me as representative of all black Muslim women.
In 1906, when Marcello Raffetto opened his pastificio in Greenwich Village, selling red sauce would have been considered presumptuous by Italian-Americans because it was almost invariably prepared from fresh ingredients at home.
Late on Monday, China's Taiwan Affairs Office weighed in, saying Lai's comments were "dangerous and presumptuous", which harm peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and that Taiwan will never be separated from China.
Vince Staples's new seven-song EP Prima Donna might be his best release yet, although it would be presumptuous to just go and make that claim because who can just say stuff about art?
"As a man it's way easier in the winter because I can keep everything I need in coat pockets subtly without looking presumptuous," said Sean, a 31-year-old news producer in New York.
Over the weekend, however, North Korea released a statement saying it had already directly received a "personal letter" from Trump and called South Korea "presumptuous" for trying to meddle in U.S.-North Korea relations.
China accused the United States of "presumptuous speculation" about China's intentions, and said it has always adopted a restrained attitude towards the development of nuclear weapons and kept its nuclear forces to a minimum.
If the Senate chooses to ignore this, it will set a precedent—and it would be incredibly presumptuous for Republicans to assume the precedent is based on Democrats always coming out on the losing end.
According to a Facebook post from Ellie Parker, she and her girlfriend were dining at a Hibachi-style steak restaurant in Indiana when one of the cooks made presumptuous and offensive comments about their relationship.
Johnson, who worked closely with Darroch while he was Foreign Secretary, told the ITV Conservative leadership debate on Tuesday evening that he "wouldn't be so presumptuous," as to say whether he should keep his job.
He's not wrong, but concluded most obvious changes would "cause many 'in-between' players to miss the point of the games," which is an awfully presumptuous way of looking at what people get from them.
We can identify some of the problem areas right now — for example, airlines — but it is presumptuous to believe that we know which industries will suffer and will need help, even in the near future.
Other donors, they said, resented that word of their conversations with Mr. Bannon seemed to leak to the news media in what they regarded as a presumptuous effort to use them to exaggerate his support.
The playwright Mr. Bock makes good on the presumptuous promise of his title, with a comprehensive micro-macro look at one middle-aged gay man's existence, in which even nonexistence becomes a coup de théâtre.
In a hostile climate with few natural resources, it was a city that should never have been, a purely American invention that owed its existence to the presumptuous fantasies of a proud and persistent few.
Scala does not claim he saw any of this coming that night in the hotel 22 years ago, does not pretend that he knew the "confident, rather than presumptuous" teenager would go on to greatness.
Asked in a television debate whether Darroch would retain his job under a Johnson government, he said he would not be so presumptuous as to think he would be in a position to take that decision.
Asked if he would keep Darroch in his job if he becomes prime minister, Johnson said: "I'm not going to be so presumptuous as to think I'm going to be in a position (to do that)".
At one point Switek hesitates to call a female skeleton from a tar pit "La Brea Woman" because of current theories on sex and gender, eschewing "biological sex" as presumptuous and sticking to "osteological sex" instead.
Well, he's on the hot seat now, and the days — by which I mean 48 hours ago — when we were all worked up about Ivanka Trump's presumptuous place at the G-20 table suddenly seem quaint.
Now, the Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin find themselves as the twin public faces of a sprawling college admissions bribery scheme — the best-known symbols of presumptuous entitlement at the center of widespread ire.
He thinks that unless a child explicitly tells their parents they want to posthumously reproduce if the time ever came, it's presumptuous to assume a child would be comfortable with their parents making the decision for them.
We wish that China-watchers would replace presumptuous speculation and arbitrary defamation with a positive, healthy and peaceful approach to China's development, which would contribute to greater mutual trust and co-operation between China and Western countries.
"No one's career growth is linear; assuming that you should or must follow a straight path to the top can make you appear arrogant and presumptuous," Lila Ibrahim, COO at ed tech company Coursera, tells Business Insider.
The sense of humor ranges from self-deprecating ("I'm not profound, I'm presumptuous," says Pius) to goofy (one episode begins with a man doting on a sheep that he believes is the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary).
I talked about how our countries are similar in their ambitions — both revolutionary, both arrogant, both presumptuous, both universalist, each certain that it is a "city on a hill," a beacon to the other, more benighted peoples.
In the Opinion essay "Time to Dump Time Zones," James Gleick writes: Let us all — wherever and whenever — live on what the world's timekeepers call Coordinated Universal Time, or U.T.C. (though "earth time" might be less presumptuous).
"It was demeaning and presumptuous, and I had no idea what would go on in someone's mind to cast my ballot for me illegally, actually to go to all the trouble to forge my ballot," Kelly Curtis said.
Read more: 36 things you should never say to your boss'Looking forward to hearing from you'A minefield of power dynamics, this one is "a bit presumptuous but fine if you are doing a favor for someone," Schwalbe says.
Fadiman was very much a mind of his time, a chummy patriarchal arbiter of the sacred canon; his mission was to help contemporaries wrestle with the eternal verities and, when necessary, to put presumptuous upstarts in their place.
But Kim Kye-gwan said that a ​letter from Mr. Trump​ had already been delivered to Pyongyang directly from the Americans, ​calling South Korea "presumptuous" for seeking to act as an intermediary between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump.
And though I still flinch at his phrase "women like me," which is both demeaning and presumptuous, he was right that it would be difficult to come to terms with the fact that my old life was over.
Because the email did not specify how the cheat software was used, players on the r/Fallout subreddit said they felt Bethesda's essay request was both condescending and presumptuous in assuming that all mods have a negative effect.
"Campaigns were always loath to do early or aggressive pre-transition planning for fear that they will be accused of measuring the drapes or being presumptuous, so they ended up doing it at the last minute," said Mr. Stier.
And the vitriol to which he has been subjected is breathtaking, a reminder not just of how much homophobia is still out there but also of how presumptuous, overwrought, cruel and destructive discourse in this digital age can be.
When Justin called our dog a "starter kid," I see now that he wasn't being presumptuous about our procreative plans, he was letting us know that dogs can be an important step in parenthood — they are our training wheels.
In both casual conversation and specialized coverage, in France, Europe and elsewhere, the answer to that question is often amazingly presumptuous: Ms. Le Pen will make it to the second round of the election, but she won't become president.
Well and the other thing is like, reading a bunch about her now, and this is you know, somewhat presumptuous, but like I think that Gavin Rossdale was never as like demonstrative about their relationship as she wanted him to be.
Annick Robinson, a woman living in Montreal, Quebec, shared a Facebook post detailing her experience with a presumptuous sales person who stopped her in an airport and attempted to sell her anti-aging skincare that she had little interest in.
That act of acceptance allowed me to see my work differently, making that "whole web of previous and concurrent texts" more visible, and helping me feel that it might not be so presumptuous, after all, to seek my connections there.
"I think it's pretty presumptuous of the United States to draw down and expect the European countries to keep their current levels," said Rachel Rizzo, an adjunct fellow in the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security.
I happen to find the result intrusive, presumptuous, and often absurd, but, for anyone who thinks that all formality is a front, and that the only point of a façade is that it should crack, "Jackie" delivers a gratifying thrill.
The code, in the form of a Thai poem, exhorts those close to the king to have "humility and never be boastful", to "never be presumptuous about the King's kindness" and to "not react even when facing the King's wrath".
Two recently passed laws on presidential transitions require candidates to start planning to take office long before they're actually elected, because the short period between Election Day and inauguration is important, and a federal requirement shields candidates from accusations that they're being presumptuous.
"There's this long history of romantic comedies where the guy turns around and says it's you and then the woman sort of folds gratefully into his arms, and that always seems both kind of tired and presumptuous," said Edge on a laugh.
It is presumptuous to declare, in no uncertain terms, that these baseball writers and fans of the near and/or distant future will never forgive Canó, or indeed any of the other stars who have been connected to or caught using PEDs.
Call it ambitious or call it presumptuous, but it's rock that arrives with a sense of mission — so much so that U21974's echoing chords and martial beats have long since become shorthand for earnest idealism in what remains of current rock.
"What I have said from the very beginning is that it is presumptuous to think, and certainly to say, that you have the black vote in your pocket," says Johnnie Cordero, the head of the state's Democratic Black Caucus, who has endorsed Steyer.
Wills is hardly so presumptuous as to try to explain what the Quran means — or "meant," that past tense evidently the heavy hand of the marketing department trying to link to previous Wills books on what Jesus, the Gospels and Paul all meant.
But while it's presumptuous (and rude) to say, "Oh, you'll change your mind one day" to anyone who insists they don't want kids, the reason why the childless-by-choice deal with doubters is that people do change their minds, all the time.
It's a matter of optics: While it is presumptuous to assume my white colleagues are all privileged (they're not), collectively it looks like a bunch of people who have benefited from a messed-up system merely shrugging and saying, Hey, ain't that some bullshit?
The idea that an outsider could look at my table of contents — as the byline counters at the group VIDA: Women in Literary Arts do, for instance — and decide whether I'd made those calculations correctly based purely on a gender tally seems presumptuous at best.
Perry wanted surrender from his partner — "I don't mean to be presumptuous, but if this works out, I would have you all to myself," he told Celeste in a flashback to the dating days she still seems to think of fondly, despite everything that happened after.
It's profound because in the early '80s, the rock hero was a role denied black musicians, who, very broadly speaking, were typically consigned to more purely functional (rather than expressive) artistic modes, like "pop" or "dance" or any number of less visible, less presumptuous niche markets.
" Nightcap: Clinton drives a wedge between Sanders and Obama | Sign up Jeffries added, "I think it seemed a bit presumptuous to me to conclude that Bernie Sanders in the twilight of his career was going to be able to be the great healer in race relations.
In its most presumptuous and insidious form, we believe we have access to people's inner lives, that we know where they're coming from and what motivates them — when that knowledge is heavily filtered through a mishmash of our own projections, prejudices and how much they remind us of us.
He says he never presumed that Call Me by Your Name would garner the reception that it did, but that telling a queer love story is a "great responsibility" that he takes seriously while trying not to be presumptuous early about what public response to the film would be.
There is also the risk that Mr. Biden could appear presumptuous — even imperious — by choosing a running mate before the electorate has the chance to sift the field of candidates, presenting voters with a two-person package before anyone has voted for even the top spot on the ticket.
As an art lover with no other qualifications but my own eye for what I like or don't, I felt it would be presumptuous of me to even try to come to terms with Mr. Chihuly's art in all its gloriously wild and inventive flights of color and form.
You see, Hassan Whiteside, a large and rather endearingly presumptuous young man who plays center for the Miami Heat, claimed, on the social networking site Twitter, that the reigning NBA Champions, the Golden State Warriors, were going to have trouble playing against teams that employed skilled post up big men.
In a clip from an oral-history interview from 2009, Lucas explained that he assumed his initial conversation with Holmes would be a short one — she had no formal background in business, and for this reason he found it quite "presumptuous" of Holmes to think she could be president of a biotech company.

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