presumptousness

In what other profession does this kind of presumptousness exist, on such a wide-scale, to the point where it is considered perfectly normal?

Archive 2007-09-01 ALW 2007

In what other profession does this kind of presumptousness exist, on such a wide-scale, to the point where it is considered perfectly normal?

On Teachers ALW 2007

At the risk of offending people, I would suggest that there is a certain presumptousness involved in setting such goals.

Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

At the risk of offending people, I would suggest that there is a certain presumptousness involved in setting such goals.

Life long learning with ethical orientation is the goal Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

Have we had so much secrecy, during the Bush years, that an attempt at openness, on the part of a prospective president, looks like presumptousness to us?

Fact-Finding Missions 2008

Yet neither here nor there is it from boldness or any presumptousness.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

The waterman scorned at such mean hire; but the Manling gave him for answer -- 'He must not vex himself, but safely store up the three pennies; for, so doing, he should never suffer default of his having -- _if only he did restrain presumptousness_ -- at the same time he gave the boatman a little pebble, saying the words --' If thou shalt hang this about thy neck, thou shalt not possibly perish in the water. '

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various