bumptiousness

And that, really, is at the bottom of his bumptiousness.

Half an hour later, Clinton had lost much of his newfound bumptiousness.

Yet, for all his bumptiousness, he is a serious choreographer.

They do have 4000 years of civilisation after all to reinforce their bumptiousness.

They were equally convincing showing the men's bumptiousness and their vulnerability.

I was in such a euphoric mood that for once his bumptiousness did not annoy me.

Despite his bumptiousness she rather liked him.

In spite of hasty papal retraction, this was not mere bumptiousness.

This flighty bumptiousness makes "Sammy's Hill" a painfully frustrating read.

The perseverant bumptiousness of humans struck them as strange, immature, and disquieting.

But he worries that the city might lose its greatest asset, that sense of "youthfulness and bumptiousness," if growth slows.

I reached into Bonforte's favorite clichés and picked one he used to reprove bumptiousness.

Alfred exudes a hilarious bumptiousness and bonhomie, and it seems that he must be the more successful of the two siblings.

The bumptiousness of Mr. Lloyd's Flaubert can be entertaining, as when he learns to love the word processor.

His bumptiousness held no 'insolence, only the high, thoughtless spirits Bedivere and I knew once.

Furthermore, they're placed in settings of a commensurate bumptiousness, replete with furniture, doorsteps, street scenes, kitchen appliances and motor vehicles.

Far from the bumptiousness and provincialism that country performers and fans sometimes proudly embrace this putative country singer's records make you feel multinational.

An influential minority disapproved of him, disliking his bumptiousness, cringing before the armour of his self-confidence.

Here is a man who strides about purposefully, hits the ball a long long way, and looks at first sight like a competitor capable of a certain bumptiousness.

He saw an answering look of affection come into the big eyes, and suddenly Ish knew that behind all the boyish bumptiousness, Joey was really a timid.

For all his hoped-for bumptiousness (he famously decided not to wear knee breeches at court), Kennedy let himself be smitten by a fair share of lords and royals.

Moreover, the bumptiousness of the choreography did match the urgency of the music, thereby reminding dancegoers that Beethoven's familiar Fifth Symphony is a tumultuous score.

He was of a family of soldiers and sailors, nothing very grand, but eminently respectable, and he knew how to behave in the great world without bumptiousness or timidity.

Frost, Ford Madox Ford and Robert Penn Warren would attend; Mrs. Davison had to throw the young Lowell out of one party for bumptiousness.

She can teach her that wives are not expensive toys, but useful partners, friends, and confidants, who should always keep men under their wholesome influence by their diplomacy, their tact, their common-sense, without bumptiousness.