Zitat des Tages über Frech / Insolent:
Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent, like Andrew Morton or Paul Burrell.
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.
Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.