His latest coronary episode, and the bumptious way the news went public, is likely to stir them up further.

CNN: Heart Murmurs

But it is also worth acknowledging that these bumptious new economic powers have made the world more complicated for Western policymakers.

ECONOMIST: The balance of economic power in the world is changing. Good

Accusing Mr Balls of "bumptious self-confidence", he said the shadow chancellor's starting point "seemed to be that the past was another country, that 2010 was year zero".

BBC: UK economy 're-entering danger zone' - Balls

Bumptious, boasting and egocentric, he didn't age 40 years between part one and part two, or persuade us of all the exotic, dubious things he had supposedly done during those years.

WSJ: "Peer" Pressure | Peer Gynt | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | By David Littlejohn

Mr Klaus is a bumptious free-market populist with nationalist inclinations who scoffed openly at Mr Havel's sermons on civic responsibility and once called him the most elitist person he had ever met.

ECONOMIST: Vaclav Havel

When the two men go for a drink, it is the bumptious David who tries to ensnare a lustrous blonde at the bar, but it is Brandon whom she seeks out later that night.

NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered

The huge market success of Windows comes as a complete surprise to everyone, while the effort to destroy Netscape originated with developers who were provoked by the bumptious claims of that Internet browser company's boy-founder, Marc Andreessen.

ECONOMIST: Microsoft