One well-connected insider has told me that many in the American Jewish community think Mr Netanyahu has been brazen and insolent, that his tactic has backfired.

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This comment is as interesting as it is boldly insolent.

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Nothing in the manner of the film-making is as witty or insolent as the scene in which Banksy has a red London phone booth carved up, welded into a dogleg, and put back where it stood.

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She was insolent and stopped at nothing.

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And then with the team away, the carriage rolling down the gravel path, Mattie turned, lifting the hem of her robe, and mounted the steps only to see that horrible child Pearl, insolent as ever, standing, arms folded, against the pillar as if the plantation was her own.

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