Because women in politics are always by definition seen as presumptuous: They presume to lead men.
"The more you rehearse something, the more kind of presumptuous it comes across, " Wellman said.
Once I got past my worries about seeming presumptuous, the actual negotiation was easy.
Much like Kirk himself, STID has swagger, but the presumptuous arrogance of the first outing has been tempered by experience.
The establishment has a ferociously modern lobby and luxurious - if presumptuous - uncurtained bathtubs in the middle of the bedrooms.
Yet Chris Huhne, Sir Ming's most threatening rival, has been in Parliament for only ten months and many thought his bid presumptuous.
And when Rubio was viciously and unfairly attacked by presumptuous white liberals for not being authentically Latino, I liked him even more.
Your view is distorted and presumptuous on your idea about elective surgery.
The friendlier she became, the more I found her friendliness irritating, presumptuous.
And as I said, presumptuous of me to say this, if that occurs and continues to occur, it will benefit the whole world.
For starters, it would look a bit presumptuous for my tastes.
And isn't it presumptuous to be talking about a second term?
It is better to punish actual offenders than to pass an overly presumptuous law that restricts and discredits the valuable influence that teachers have on students.
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"It's presumptuous to say I am changed, " he said, but added that the shock of going from "civilization to the middle of nowhere" had its effect.
It may seem odd, even presumptuous, for a small team that only arrived in the Premier League in 2011 to beat itself up for winning ugly.
We only bring this up because some beauty contestants may balk at how a group of presumptuous outsiders sees them, as opposed to how they actually see themselves.
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Talk of how an Obama presidency might affect Chicago range from the petty (will motorcades mean more traffic?) to the presumptuous (when will the gravy train roll in?).
The chancellor also managed to sound slightly presumptuous when he revealed his plan to make a near-regal progress through Britain over the next 12 months in preparation for power.
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It would be overly presumptuous to connect the glacial growth of interest in Virginia wine (328, 000 cases sold nationwide in 2005, and 362, 000 last year) to the Salahis' motivation to undertake an idiotic stunt.
"In a world in which physicists have only recently discovered that we cannot account for most of the matter and energy in the universe, " the study says, it would be "presumptuous" to cling to the idea.
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Anyway, as long as the Davos Divas and the Frequent Flier Anarchists are having their say, I might as well be presumptuous enough to suggest, without any axe to grind, some real-life future Net scenarios for the rest of us.
The Pacers have given Miami a handful this series, and they really should be the story, since Indiana has proved itself to be a rugged challenger, vaporizing the presumptuous New York Knicks to get here and being physical and relentless with the defending NBA champs.
When a person in a position of trust and responsibility lets people down, and particularly if the faltering is due to a deficit of character (the usual suspicion and assumption), the person is almost always disgraced and branded for life, without prospect of ever regaining a position of trust (if, that its, he were so presumptuous as to seek one, which he would not be).
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