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There are no less than six
fables concerning an
impertinent insect,
which is
taken in
general to
refer to the kind of
interfering person who
makes himself...
- The
Curious Impertinent (Spanish: El
curioso impertinente) is a 1953
Spanish historical film
directed by
Flavio Calzavara and
starring Aurora Bautista...
- father,
Charles considered discussion of his
marriage in the
Commons impertinent and an
infringement of his father's
royal prerogative. In
January 1622...
- an
archaic meaning in
American slang meaning a
person who
chatters impertinently. The term
jaywalking was
coined in the
first decade of the 1900s to...
- The
Impertinent Lovers: or, A
Coquet at her Wit's End is a 1723
comedy play by the
British writer Francis Hawling. It was
submitted to Sir
Richard Steele...
-
Caterpillar portrays the
larva as an
extraordinarily hungry animal. The
Impertinent Insect is a
group of five fables,
sometimes ascribed to Aesop, concerning...
- but also "a busy-body, [who] is
accordingly officious, garrulous, and
impertinent". In Act II,
Hamlet refers to
Polonius as a "tedious old fool" and taunts...
- "
Carolina Paiz, one of the
writers of the series, wrote: "he can be
impertinent and evil and demeaning." Mark Sloan's
relationship with
Chyler Leigh's...
-
concludes the letter: I hope you will
forgive my
troubling you. It is
almost impertinent to say how
foolish it
appears to me that I
should intrude on your ground...
- antisemitism." (Svengali)
would either fawn or bully, and
could be
grossly impertinent. He had one kind of
cynical humour,
which was more
offensive than amusing...