With that he walked off, leaving his aides to chastise us for our impertinence.

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Kate merrily greets all of Sir Harry's boastful claims of success with barely concealed mirth and impertinence.

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But just at that moment the larva started to bleat, and the savage woman instantly lost her impertinence.

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The minister hemmed and hawed at my impertinence but afterward, I detected a wink from Mitra on my point.

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At any rate, corporate governance has come a long way since the not-too-distant days when directors regarded all shareholders' questions as gross impertinence.

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His quarrel with Mr Wasmosy sharpened to the point where the president, as commander in chief, ordered him into 30 days of disciplinary arrest for impertinence.

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After FORBES GLOBAL had the impertinence to question the European Union's competition commissioner, Mario Monti, about his working relationship with U.S. regulators after the GE-Honeywell debacle, the Italian professor decided the World Economic Forum in Davos was the ideal public venue to put us across his knee for a hiding.

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