英语词汇“bumptious”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

It was their confidence, maybe—their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A clear-eyed view of young Churchill as a bumptious self-promoter whose exploits in Africa were as farcical as they were courageous. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Along the way Drake came to embody a streak of Englishness — bumptious, tenacious, patriotic, crafty, vainglorious and defiantly exceptionalist — that is back with a vengeance. How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

There is a tonal ambiguity to the bumptious romantic pursuit that follows, a surprisingly tremulous and fragile air, which may be what dismayed critics who were expecting a more conventional drama. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

After detours into riotous improvisation, the performance eventually hurtles into a bumptious, tuba-driven conclusion. ‘Mastery and Transgression’ in Music That Bridges Genres 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

His phrasing and touch in the Un poco adagio opened up worlds of expression, and his bumptious, off-kilter accents in the Hungarian-themed Rondo never disturbed the flowing, propulsive stream of notes. Conductor Mario Venzago energizes Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z

This and other examples of Don’s incredibly bumptious approach to life and desserts were laid out in a profile in GQ. Is CNN's Don Lemon the most aptly named man on TV? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Older Lavelle might be less bumptious, but it's clear the appetite for the hustle is as strong as ever. Mo' Wax after 21 years: James Lavelle goes for a trip-hop down memory lane 2013-06-12T10:00:25Z

Turns out I was right, as seen in Hess’s bumptious follow-up, “Nacho Libre,” and, even more, in “Gentlemen Broncos,” which raises the fusion of religion and pop culture to ecstatic and loopy new heights. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Promisingly, they also saw in the bumptious and belligerent "Old Hickory" some linkage to the current occupant of the White House and a way to dramatize major issues involved in America's coming of age. Remembering Michael Friedman: Interview from the earliest days of 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

In program notes Mr. Morrison cites the dances for Tatiana’s name-day celebration, Tchaikovsky’s being not nearly rustic or bumptious enough for Prokofiev’s taste. Music Review: Prokofiev Version of ?Eugene Onegin? at Princeton 2012-02-12T23:34:22Z

Similarly wide-ranging is León’s “Alma” — the lyrical opening of which follows a winding, entertaining path toward the bumptious rhythmic fillips of its central section. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z

The original British version, starring Ricky Gervais, has been copied in places as disparate as Chile and France, proving that office life under a bumptious boss is apparently universal. ‘The Office’ Finale 2013-05-01T12:00:01Z

After so much serious treatment in the last decade or so, it’s nice to once again see them portrayed as bumptious, overdressed dweebs who’ve outlived their own cachet. Review | ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ finds a little life left in the mockumentary format 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

But you will warm to his bumptious company. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z

Writing in The New York Times, the critic Roberta Smith described Mr. Bickerton’s pieces in that show as “the most bumptious, engaging and least didactic on view.” Ashley Bickerton, Whose Art Evoked Humor and Wonder, Dies at 63 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z

If Mr. van Zweden wanted razzle-dazzle, perhaps something by Gershwin or Bernstein — the kind of bumptious American music to which Ms. León looks back, with loving yet wary eyes. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mulaney has only compounded his risk by creating a show bearing his own name, playing a young comic who writes for a bumptious game show host played by Martin Short. New Sitcom Tries Old Form: Laughs Allowed 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

But the roughly 50 bowls, cups, vases and pitchers in this stunning exhibition testify to a creative sensibility much different from his bumptious public persona. Review: In ‘No Two Alike,’ George Ohr’s Pottery Plays on Convention 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The brief, bumptious chapters cover roughly a year, and the lead player doesn’t come of age so much as rip away childhood’s masks. Review | A teenager meets the family she didn’t know existed in ‘A Girl Returned’ 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

A bumptious, unruly kid, he once, in a rage of self-loathing, tore a bathroom sink from its mounting. New Harvard graduate tells dad: ‘Now, I want to play Ultimate Frisbee’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

For Michael Winner, that bumptious remnant from the unregulated days of British film production, it's a needless extension of the welfare state. Where now for the British film industry? 2010-10-07T22:00:00Z

Though he has clearly calmed down since the days when he was known as one of the more bumptious hustlers of 90s music, Lavelle is still not troubled by modesty about the label. Mo' Wax after 21 years: James Lavelle goes for a trip-hop down memory lane 2013-06-12T10:00:25Z

Educated at Cambridge, living prosperously as a family law solicitor, he's changed his name from Gary to the more posh Nick, and cut off ties to his bumptious working-class family. Dean comes by sentiment honestly in 'Old Romantic' 2011-02-16T17:01:05Z

I like the Rolling Stones, but I like them a little less now that I’ve read Keith Richards’ Life, which I found bumptious and self-involved. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z

In a green-and-white sweater vest, mouse ears and a little mouse nose with whiskers, the lanky Dinolfo cuts a dapper figure as Stuart — happy and bumptious and fond of quoting speeches from films. ‘Stuart Little’ gets a larger-than-life stage adaptation at Adventure Theatre MTC

So bumptious an opening, at once comic and tragic, raucous and dreary, overcomes the challenges of long names, unknown moonshine and “skin-rotten street dogs whimpering in their dreams.” Review | Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

Scott Shepherd and Ari Fliakos take turns incarnating the brash, bumptious Mailer, whose offensive remarks rile the panelists and audience member to the point of near riot. When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Oren, more interested in small gestures than gleaming sound, begins the first scene with bumptious brasses and a breakneck tempo that make the room spin, spelling disaster for Verdi’s hard-partying demimondaine. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

The bumptious Scherzo was outstanding, Lin again taking flight in the crazy trio section. A changed sound is heard in Juilliard Quartet’s concert at Library of Congress 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

The unifying thread of the novel, to the extent that there is one, is Ogden Hall, a boarding school for boys in the Illinois countryside, founded in 1914 by a bumptious, headstrong millionaire. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z

When last we encountered Jesus Quintana, the bumptious Latino bowler was going door-to-door in his new neighborhood, meekly sharing that he was a registered sex offender. Nobody Messes With the Jesus (Except for John Turturro) 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Fans of his crazy, bumptious, brilliant creations will be hoping he manages to corral his characters for long enough to produce their final outing. Andy Mulligan's school rules 2011-08-05T15:34:00Z

These dragons are not awaiting a human slayer, a bumptious avatar of St. George. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z

It's unrecognisable from the bumptious singalong it became - the words Yellow and Submarine are conspicuously absent - but Martin says the development of the song shows the Beatles at their most harmonious. Beatles' Revolver: 'It's time travel' says Giles Martin 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Gould and his bumptious crony Jim Fisk fought back by buying cows in Chicago and, in Steinmetz’s words, “shipping them to market at Vanderbilt’s bargain rates.” Review | The life of Jay Gould, America’s most cunning Wall Street wizard 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

Soviet GM Mark Taimanov, Fischer’s first victim, was both outclassed and under debilitating pressure from officials back home to stop the bumptious American. Fischer was a model of sanity and realism — at the chessboard 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

Britain's upper classes seemed to admire the South’s aristocratic tone and disliked the North’s bumptious democracy. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z

But the most thrilling cameos on “Certified Lover Boy” come from two veterans, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne, who tear through their verses in the bumptious “You Only Live Twice” with refreshed vigor and attitude. 'Donda' was pure psychodrama; Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' is irresistible even at its bleakest 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z

In this company England are a minor cast member, the bumptious cartoon dog, dukes up, who keeps on yappily inserting itself into the centre of the story. Euro 2020: latest news and buildup as the knockout stages begin – live! 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z

Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, describes the Duke of York as "noisy, bumptious," but also "very charming, when he wants to be," in the documentary, the Mail reported. Queen Elizabeth ‘frustrated’ by Prince Charles, closer to Prince Andrew: expert 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

For them, Trumpism’s bumptious character, theatricality and venom are selling points: the unfiltered id kicking the bossy superego in the shins. Perspective | Trumpism expanded the GOP tent. Don’t expect Republicans to abandon it now. 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z

But if the tech industry’s bumptious history with antitrust enforcement is any lesson, a caretaker who has reluctantly stepped into the spotlight might be preferable to a charismatic leader born to it. Google Antitrust Fight Thrusts Low-Key C.E.O. Into the Line of Fire 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

He plucks a child from the bumptious autograph scrum at the U.S. Perspective | Novak Djokovic isn’t Federer or Nadal. Don’t heckle him. He’s still one of the greats. 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

Israel earned the right to host this year's competition after winning last year's event in Lisbon with Netta's bumptious floor-filler Toy. Darude: From Sandstorm to Eurovision 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

The many crimes of the empire’s bumptious adventurers were enabled by Britain’s great geopolitical power and then obscured by its cultural prestige. Opinion | The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

So, we shouldn’t be surprised when institutional efforts to corral their work feel bumptious and disorderly. Review: Avant-garde and self-taught artists intersect at LACMA's 'Outliers and American Vanguard Art' 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

I used to hope someone else might trumpet my foreign sales for me, thinking only men got to be bumptious and beloved. Opinion | I Want to Be Rich and I’m Not Sorry 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z

Happily, that is not the case with “Ferdinand,” an animated film inspired by Munro Leaf’s 1936 children’s classic that brims with bumptious fun, droll characters and poignant emotions. Review | ‘Ferdinand’: The conscientious-objector bull of a children’s book gets a wider pasture in the movie 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

The biggest, upcoming concern is North Korea, where the US leader has recklessly threatened to rain down death and destruction on bumptious Kim Jong-un in response to the regime’s nuclear weapons build-up. Trump juggernaut rolls on after White House generals avert disaster on Iran deal 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z

I’m indebted to Luis Gutiérrez, the bumptious congressman from Illinois’s Fourth District, for confirming what I long resisted acknowledging: America’s political discourse has been painfully coarsened. I Guess We’re All McCarthyites Now 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z

A graphic novel about the bumptious philosophers of the seventeenth century? Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

Sitting glumly in the dock day after day, he cut a much-reduced figure compared with the bumptious dictator who strutted outside the comandancia. Manuel Noriega: feared dictator was the man who knew too much | Simon Tisdall 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Church himself welcomed the comparison with “Pledge Allegiance to the Hag,” his bumptious tribute to the late Merle Haggard, who died last year. How Eric Church turned Staples Center into L.A.'s biggest bar 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

Maybe the day of transformation will come soon and Trump will be nothing more than a bumptious, vulgar, ideologically unpredictable, utterly survivable conservative. Preserve, Protect, and Defend 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

It’s not hard to see why Republican voters might have been more attracted by Trump’s repudiation of the Iraq war than repelled by the bumptious and scurrilous way in which he expressed it. Trump and Iraq 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

Nowadays, the US is the status quo power and China the bumptious usurper. Obama’s failed ‘Asian pivot’ leaves China ascendant | Simon Tisdall 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Particularly effective is her clear-eyed view of the young Churchill as a bumptious self-promoter whose exploits in Africa were as farcical as they were courageous. Winston Churchill, hungry for recognition at any cost 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The appalled GOP voters he is losing seem overwhelmed in number by independents and crossover Democrats increasingly attracted by his bumptious, raucous, smash-the-cucumber-frames style. Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fossilized, fearful media can’t touch Donald Trump 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Too much of a political novice and without Trump’s bumptious exuberance and slashing humor. Camille Paglia: This is why Trump’s winning, and why I won’t vote for Hillary 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Them much like his bumptious, Vegas kind of quarterback with almost twice as many turnovers as touchdowns in forever promising, Haslam said things are going to be different. Why the Cleveland Browns are champions of NFL's Black Monday 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

The singer’s job at that time was erasing her history as a Disney Channel star; “Bangerz” was self-consciously outrageous, full of in-your-face raunch and bumptious hip-hop beats. Here's how Miley Cyrus regained her mojo at the Wiltern on Saturday night 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z

The “bad” stuff is bumptious—unfunny and in your face. What Advertising Does to TV 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

He was self-assured, glib, and, at times, bordering on bumptious. Obama Occupies Capitol Hill 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

And yes, I’m bumptious enough to think that I’m still right, even though that following crowd is an economist and public policy maker of the calibre of Larry Summers. Larry Summers Calls For A Carbon Tax Now That Oil Prices Have Fallen 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

Onstage, Hope was a wise guy and a go-getter—“cocky, brash, and bumptious” was his own summing up. When Bob Hope Was Funny 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

His star career was over at 25; in the postwar Hollywood landscape, heroes were streaked by guilt and doom, and the bumptious vaudevillian found few people who wanted to put on his kind of show. The Long and the Short of Mickey Rooney 2014-04-07T20:56:20Z

Her verdict: "I think I'd say they are bumptious on occasion, but I like bumptious." The geeks transforming how UK government does digital 2013-06-12T09:39:13Z

Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, the bumptious US challenge to European military and economic suzerainty was on the rise. 2013, like 1913, could see epic transformations in world order 2012-12-30T17:01:01Z

“Were there ever two girls as bumptious as those two?” The Twins in the South 2012-02-13T03:00:16.113Z

Ambles was looking beautiful when we drove over last week, but Harold is a little bumptious and Hilda does not seem to see his faults. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z

I hope I've not grown bumptious, but I'm not afraid now to think for myself and to say what I think. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z

And all that was left to remind Lad of her was this bumptious and sharp-toothed little son of hers. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z

Wrote to a very bumptious child, thirteen years old, who proffers me her friendship and correspondence, claiming to have written poems and magazine contributions praised by 'noted authors.' Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z

I remember that one rather bumptious American correspondent, on a visit to Queenstown, was loud in expressing his disapproval of this state of affairs, and even threatened to "expose" us all in the American press. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z

It was perfectly sincere, yet it sounded like the bumptious praise of a yokel. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z

The danger could be removed entirely if the American people would substitute intelligent study of the problem for bumptious conceit, and concerted action on right lines for aimless talk. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z

He's a bit bumptious and unsympathetic, but I think we can show him that we could have done no less than we did. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z

When he did turn up, there mingled with his apologies the bumptious assumption of ease with which he sought to make a joke of his negligence. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z

But “our fellows” did hear of it, and the bumptious youth got unmercifully chaffed in consequence; which he most thoroughly deserved, and which, no doubt, did him a vast deal of good. The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa 2011-10-10T02:00:22.657Z

But you do not take sufficiently into consideration—and in this you imitate the bumptious clergyman who was going to have me removed—the world's cravings and necessities as a world. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z

The man simply had no experience or understanding—a raw, crude, bumptious provincial, that's what he was! Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z

She wrote him off then as “egotistical, bumptious, shallow-minded and reactionary.” Webb, Churchill and the Birth of the Welfare State: Sylvia Nasar 2011-09-08T00:22:04Z

The tithing-man, that amusing but most bumptious public functionary of colonial times, was at first the official appointed to spy specially upon the ordinaries. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z

He has the Australian accent strongly developed, he uses slang indiscriminately, and he is bumptious and aggressive. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z

The majority of his friends, like himself, lead their short, bustling, bumptious, and frequently wholly useless lives, purblind always and entirely deaf where anything except their own interests is concerned. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z

“There’s such a thing as duty, Mr Dorrien,” put in Turner, in a tone meant to convey a lofty rebuke, but which only struck the other as divertingly bumptious. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z

Kafirland is chock-full of bumptious, uneducated, hypocritical scamps, who live on the fat of the land, and are never happy unless meddling with what doesn’t concern them. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z

I had to have this chap a bumptious, conceited sort of youth so as to have the contrast stronger when he met the hard knocks that were to come to him in the city. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z

Style: To some, authoritative, booming, and confident, to others, bumptious and ineffective. Mark Halperin Grades the New Hampshire Debate 2011-06-14T10:05:00Z

Only once did a bumptious young miner attempt to ignore such instructions. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z

"I did not mean to pose as an expert; you make me feel as if I had been too bumptious," replied Martine. Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z

But it was not an English uncle "tipping" his bumptious American nephew with good advice, nor a pedagogue lecturing us upon our follies and defects, nor a supercilious foreigner condescending. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z

A bumptious looking character mounted to the entrance, and sent in a card. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z

Professor Kürtchen was helped by a yet younger assistant teacher with a doctor's degree—a good-humoured, energetic man, bumptious but enthusiastic, who influenced Klaus Heinrich's views and conscience perhaps more than was good for him. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z

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". VIDEO: UK economy 're-entering danger zone' - Balls 2011-03-24T18:53:44Z

That said, the US ambassador who saw him work a lunch table in central Asia – and was leaked via WikiLeaks – found him bumptious and irritating. Prince Andrew row: we should take the long view 2011-03-07T11:08:13Z

I had been boastful and bumptious; I had been disrespectful and absurd. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z

"And to me he seems such a harmless, inoffensive person, absolutely without self-consciousness and not in the least bumptious." The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z

But it should be something to show them all that he could no longer be bossed and insulted and jeered at—all in that bumptious, braggadocio, bucko spirit of the woods! King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

He’s not nearly as conservative or confrontational as the bumptious crop of new members that made possible the final stage of his rise from bar mopper to House speaker. Boehner’s House Party Kicks Can One More Day: Margaret Carlson 2011-01-06T02:57:37Z

I'm sure she's right though there is always a market for bumptious and irritating. Prince Andrew row: we should take the long view 2011-03-07T11:08:13Z

I don't think the Canadian would grow bumptious if the Englishman didn't snub. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z

"What on earth has he to be bumptious about?" The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z

I don’t doubt that Central Park was a more challenging endeavor than Prospect Park, where the land was cheaper, the earth more pliable, and the politics less bumptious. Central Park vs. Prospect Park 2010-07-11T00:48:00Z

These Spanish chaps are so cocky and bumptious, and ready to take everything as being meant as an insult. Real Gold A Story of Adventure

Even Boleslav himself, though two years younger, and of a retiring nature that had little in common with the elder boy's somewhat bumptious temperament, was much influenced by him. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers

The Englishman snubs and the Canadian grows bumptious. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z

I do not know what the bumptious commandant thought of it, but he pulled his mustaches very, very hard. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew

The bumptious aphorism was a sign that Farwell was still himself. A Bed of Roses

Tell me if the bumptious rose does not generally carry the day over the modest, retiring violet?' Rambles in Womanland

A man, to be up to date, had to be brief, brusque, and bumptious. Fragments of an Autobiography

Inglefield could be bumptious and quarrelsome at times, but he had a poor life of it, with a detestable wife, and an appointment of no great emolument, nor holding out any particular prospect of advancement. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising

Unarmed and a prisoner, he was a very different individual from the bumptious Boer who had been taught a lesson by Jack only a few months before. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War

“Of all the bumptious old clodhoppers!” muttered Harry Maitland, scowling after the retreating form. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley

I rather lost my temper, for they became beastly bumptious, you know, and at one time made as if they’d try to prevent us.” A Frontier Mystery

He had just succeeded to a lot of money, you know, and became afflicted with swelled head there and then; in fact, became intolerably bumptious.” The Triumph of Hilary Blachland

The Dutchmen up in the Rooi-Ruggensberg are as bumptious as they can be. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion

He really is one of the most uppish of the many bumptious Boers to be met with here and in Pretoria, and of course in other towns in the Transvaal. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War

And this malice prepense never uprose within him, except in the presence of some bumptious, ignorant nobody. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections

"We used to be rather bumptious about family," said Conway, laughing; "but I suspect the world has taught us to get rid of some of our conceit." Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day

Presbury, with no thought in his bumptious head of meeting Hugh Whitaker before the Day of Judgment, looked at and through him without a hint of recognition; but his wife was another person altogether. The Destroying Angel

The men around understood; nothing pleased them better than to see a bumptious young Aid sat down upon, and they were outspoken in their delight. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign

He was bumptious to a degree, and openly expressed his hatred of all Englishmen. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War

In private life Forster had the character of a bumptious busybody, which character indeed the two books just mentioned, even without the anecdotes abundant in more recent books of biography, abundantly establish. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

His manners were subdued, and gave no hint of the bumptious acrobat he might live to be. Upon The Tree-Tops

Then B: "A bushy cat," "A bruised cat," "A bellicose cat," "A bumptious cat," and so on. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes

The youngest Egyptologist—being in truth a somewhat bumptious man, fresh from Oxford by way of Cairo and Alexandria—had presumed to make a little feint of sword-play with one of the lecturer's diffident remarks. Name and Fame A Novel

If any young man in London had the right to be bumptious and didactic, Henry had. A Great Man A Frolic

The artist had vindicated not only himself, but his art, from the attacks of the ignorant and bumptious. Six Centuries of Painting

As the young progressed and waxed bumptious, she became more and more cautious. Upon The Tree-Tops

The next day the king, who loved a jest, summoned his court to a meadow to witness the race, and to see what the bumptious pygmy could do. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

It turned by chance on a certain barrister of Sydney's inn, a Mr. Barrington Baynes, whom one of the party not incorrectly described as "that beautiful, bumptious, and briefless barrister, B. B." Name and Fame A Novel

The bumptious braggadocio that European military nations have developed has no counterpart in Japan. The Empire of the East

His intense patriotism was all for peace; classical learning never made him dry or bumptious, nor the favour of kings servile. Six Centuries of Painting

Here, too, the teacher sows the seeds of that crude and wilful misinterpretation of the classics, which later on disports itself as art-criticism, and which is nothing but bumptious barbarity. On the Future of our Educational Institutions

Oh, I say, doesn’t it seem bumptious for one to think of himself as a man? Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop

He is not bumptious nor self-assertive, like many others; he rarely teases, and is altogether a well-mannered and proper young person. A Bird-Lover in the West

“I’m not as bumptious as I was a few years ago,” he commented. The Dominant Dollar

I think that Addison sat next, and after him Halstead, who assumed a somewhat bumptious air, which was to an extent reflected in his picture. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine

Indifferent and bumptious actors," said Handy to a friend, "are always looking for what they call big money. A Pirate of Parts

We were only afraid that they might become a little too bumptious on the strength of it, and be after giving us another job. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

Bullfinch, looking as if he had just taken a prize at Islington and was inclined to be bumptious about it. Vixen, Volume II.

"Now the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is gumptious." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851

Herbert mentally voted his cousin a bumptious brat of a girl. Queensland Cousins

What could have made him act so foolishly as to go up there only to be turned away by that bumptious porter? Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant

She's a typical high echelon Washington secretary, cool, extremely well-mannered, cheerful without being bumptious. Tinker's Dam

“They so disgusted our great English company-starting capitalist that he would come no further with us; and we were well rid of his bumptious airs and vulgarity for the rest of the journey.” Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

"Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a Parson. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851

Even her bumptious rudeness could not conceal the jubilation with which she'd penned it. Greener Than You Think

He was vulgar and bumptious in manner until he became polished by concerting with 'swells' after the success of his entertainments. The History of "Punch"

But, father," I exclaimed, being aroused by this injustice to defend myself, "Professor Blight said that I must be one of those bumptious Malcolms. David Malcolm

“Why, I’m teaching this new fry to be less bumptious, that’s all.” Eric, or Little by Little

If he was lacking in geniality and address, he was, at all events, neither bumptious nor servile. The Ffolliots of Redmarley

The bumptious subject, by giving himself autosuggestions to comply with various posthypnotic suggestions, is actually engaging in our technique of role playing. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis

In the middle of Europe, a thoroughly disillusioned, indolent and delightful old continent, the Germans were a dangerous mass of energy and bumptious push. Pipefuls

"Yes, sir," I returned proudly, for the word "bumptious" had a ring of importance in it, and I had every reason to believe that the Malcolms were persons of quite large importance. David Malcolm

The blundering inanity of this kind of writing is equaled only by its bumptious grandiloquence. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety.

But I somehow felt greatly abashed while returning home, as if I had acted like a raw and bumptious youth in thus thrusting myself upon him unasked and unintroduced. My Reminiscences

He was commonly supposed to be sulky, and some people thought his tone of voice bumptious and insolent. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)

Such a life might be a lesson, if anything could, to the bumptious and “efficient” and smug. Pipefuls

To the butcher's son and the blacksmith's boy and their like, the restless masses, I was indeed a bumptious Malcolm. David Malcolm

Think how Reade himself would have borne himself—then strike out from it all the bumptious and aggressive parts—and be the rest. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile

For once in a way, that the rule might be proved, the greater part of this bumptious paragraph was true. The Genius

To one rather bumptious youth he said:—"And what are you going to do with your life?" Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography

He is simple, not bumptious, gives himself no airs of traditional culture or modern education, and therefore recommends himself. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921

“I wish I could be as bumptious as you are with them,” said Ned, with a faint smile. The Rajah of Dah

Dear me, how bumptious we are, young fellow. The Black Bar

I felt sick as soon as I knew what was going to happen, but I won’t be such a bumptious, bragging sneak as he is. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser

“Now, Mister Leigh, don’t you go on for being bumptious, now, my lad!” replied Jorrocks, laughing heartily at my drawing myself up on my dignity. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story

I had forgotten all about those bumptious lumps! Patty Blossom

"Sit down, bumptious babe!" said the priest, tugging the lad's coat. Lords of the North

Erskine, examining a bumptious fellow, asked him, if he were not a rider? The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings

The “intelligent public opinion” of Europe thought Copernicus, and Bruno, and Galileo, and Luther very bumptious sorts of persons. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891

A bumptious military cult has usurped its place. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life

A young and somewhat bumptious ensign, who knew not of the fame of the doctor as a naturalist, called out: "There are some deer, there are some deer." Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

I remember that I became successively irate, pathetic, and bumptious in my secret soul. The Opinions of a Philosopher

Never, indeed, was a more bumptious, conceited, and disagreeable set of personages created by an author, under the impression that they were the reverse. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters

We once had a very bumptious member on our board of judges. The Amateur Garden

Had he found an all-important clue in one of the many little pigeon-holes and drawers, stuffing it into his pocket just before a bumptious young "special investigator" had arrived? Murder at Bridge

“She’s just as bumptious next time, all the same,” said Clement. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls

And all this, said Byrne, between his set teeth, because a bumptious agent sought to lay forceful hands upon the daughter of a chief. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier

Ross still feared one of those snubs the other so well knew how to deliver to the bumptious. The Time Traders

Meaning that it is his, or one of his," commented Geoffrey; "you see for yourself what a bumptious babe it is, Miss Carson. The Rebellion of Margaret

There was nothing bumptious or even dictatorial in Kitty's manner; she merely wanted to show them how a Queen ought to act. Marjorie at Seacote

A Texas outlaw succeeded in inducing a young Englishman of the verdantly bumptious and moneyed sort to go homestead hunting with him. The Canadian Commonwealth

"I suppose, like most little men, he is as vain as he can stick, bumptious, and fidgety," said Venning, despondently. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa

On the contrary, if criticism is not strong it cannot lift a young genius out of the struggling crowd, and it cannot beat down some bumptious impostor. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses

He thought Mr. Hayne too bumptious to live; but he bore no malice, and his wrath was soon over. The Deserter

He looks as big as all out-of-doors, and e'en Bumble was hardly as bumptious. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892

Ten years ago this question would have been considered the bumptious presumption of flamboyant fancy. The Canadian Commonwealth

He was game, all right, however bumptious and self-satisfied. Children of the Wild

Mr. Bell was as thin as his wife was fat, and as quiet and unassuming as she was bumptious and talkative. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town

One hot day last summer he was accompanying a bumptious sportsman, of very small stature, when he was greatly troubled by gnats. Best Short Stories

You bumptious little midget, do you think First Cause is going to trouble Itself about you and your petty concerns? The Law and the Word

I will mention that "bang-up" and "bumptious," and that class of expressions were her favorites, and the best-educated boy or girl will be able to imagine the rest. The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin

He had probably been thinking it over, and come to the conclusion that they were getting too bumptious. Children of the Wild

Only bumptious fools do that, and they are called liars for their pains. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892

Open next I flung the shutter, when, with a prodigious flutter, In there stepped a bumptious Raven, black as any blackamoor. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891

The house belonged to a Prussian subject of the name of Probsfeld, a terribly self-opinionated North German, with all the bumptious proclivities of that thriving nation most fully developed.' The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America

My name is Butterworth, and it's got a handle to it,' said that bumptious lady, quickly. Sevenoaks

Is there even now a spot into which the bumptious, mannerless, ubiquitous little pleb has not pushed himself? Roof and Meadow

While the equine was stretched upon the ground, peacefully sleeping, his bumptious owner, in charging over his body, had stumbled and fallen. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne

No one could justly say that the Shalems were either oppressively vulgar or insufferably bumptious; probably the chief reason for their lack of popularity was their intense and obvious desire to be popular. When William Came

"Don't ever be bumptious?" squinted the Senior Surgeon perplexedly through his glasses. The White Linen Nurse

If an Editor finds himself present, should he return thanks for the Press himself, or leave that duty in the hands of a bumptious Reporter. Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892

The empty shibboleths—the loud and blatant voice—the bumptious temper—that make the commoner form of Tory—all are there. Sketches in the House (1893)

The latter has some bumptious and comical allusions to "world conquerors," the Germans suffering badly at the time from an attack of swelled head, subsequent to their defeat of the unhappy, unprepared French. Wagner

Its mere formulation in words rendered it bumptious and presumptuous. The Street Called Straight

And my Father said that, when I came home in June, if I could honestly say that I'd never once been bumptious—all my three years here,—he'd give me a—heifer! The White Linen Nurse

To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British. Reviews

When the ship of Boston's chief citizen was seized by the bumptious, gilt-braided British officials, there was a merry uproar. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen

I wish," wrote Cowley, on July 28, "that the French were inclined to be more bumptious, as they seemed to be at first. Great Britain and the American Civil War

He is a bumptious and jolly Junker, just as Lord Curzon is an uppish Junker. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index

You mean?" she stammered, "you mean—that I've—been—bumptious—just now? The White Linen Nurse

True, the Socialists in her confidence had been noisy and bumptious of late in order to concentrate attention upon their sex, and at the same time careful to refrain from definite statements or overt acts.... The White Morning

Most of us librarians have had experiences with these bumptious “owners” of public property. A Librarian's Open Shelf

I have heard this story before, and in a different key: The preacher was a young, bumptious fellow, fond of quoting the classics, etc. The Parish Clerk

On this occasion it is not etiquette for the candidates themselves to be in waiting,—it looks too "bumptious." A Collection of College Words and Customs

"Don't—Ever—Be—bumptious!" she read forth jerkily with a questioning, incredulous sort of emphasis. The White Linen Nurse

He meant to show the bumptious Centrals a thing or two. The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics

Feeling inferior and groping around in pleasurable associations so inextricably linked to pain it was sometimes bumptious, aggressive, and striving to leave a concept of its superiority onto the other dog's mind. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

Take the estimate of his authority, and imagine the supply of food from this country into England stopped, and the bumptious little island necklaced with Monitors to cut off the Continental supply. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863

He took it like the bumptious idiot he can be, at first. Strawberry Acres

"Why, I'm teaching this new fry to be less bumptious, that's all." Eric

Still a man writing in a humorous vein naturally adopts a certain bumptious tone, just as our friend "Punch" ostentatiously declares himself to be omniscient and infallible. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice

There is no better place to send a spoiled, undisciplined, bumptious youth than to a British trench. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form

One gathers that Lucifer, Son of the Morning, was not conceited, snobbish, nor bumptious. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life

This character has given to the language the word bumbledom, the officious arrogance and bumptious conceit of a parish authority or petty dignitary. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook

Perhaps he had an animus against these bumptious, undeferential, overcritical Americans, and thought it was time to give one of them a lesson. In the Claws of the German Eagle

I heard that Mr. Sharp's wig didn't fit him; and that he needn't be so 'bounceable'—somebody else said 'bumptious'—about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind. David Copperfield

Of course I shall be told that it adds to the prestige of Great Britain, but this is an empty, bumptious boast dearly paid for by the British tax-payer. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat

A bumptious colored person wearing a derby tipped over one eye, and a cigar in his mouth pointing to the northwest, walked into a hardware store and remarked, "Lemme see your razors." John Jacob Astor

B. P. T., just an abbreviation of bumptious. Blix

I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation. A Study in Scarlet

I sent up my card, and a few minutes later was shown into a private salon more appropriate to a beautiful young duchess than to a middle-aged, bumptious financier. It Happened in Egypt

He's a very stiff 'un, is Spavin, and he comes it uncommon bumptious about his character, and so on. Run to Earth A Novel

Lestrange was not exactly stuck-up; he had feared the fellow was bumptious, and felt there was no knowing what he might say next, but by this time had ceased to imagine his dignity in danger. There & Back

He was a kindly, honourable, somewhat bumptious man—but what great talkers think small matter of themselves? In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc

I will button you up in a jiffy and we can take this bumptious little person along with us. The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill

Jared was an ignorant and rather bumptious young fellow of twenty-four, who was hoping to make something of himself, and was feeling about for the means. Under the Skylights

Coming here to herald your call, Senator Corson, I have been insulted by a bumptious understrapper and held in leash by an ignorant policeman. All-Wool Morrison

The appearance and activities of the creature are such as to establish the delusion that it is not altogether amicable in its attitude towards even such a bumptious and authoritative product of Nature as man. My Tropic Isle

Yeh's tone when he was taken was to be rather bumptious. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

Much annoyed at his bumptious manner, I was resolved now, come what would, to pay him off. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)

"This folly, this falsity, this bumptious vulgarity—shall we not put an end to it?" cried the Doctor. Under the Skylights

And a bumptious, blundering, bull-headed Scotchman had put the Governor of a state in that tongue-tied, skulking position on the proud day of inauguration! All-Wool Morrison

Of course we refer to phrenological bumps, from which, possibly, the powerful adjective "bumptious" is derived, it being applicable to a person whose conflicting bumps keep him continually on the rampage. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870

The roar that saluted this retort subdued the bumptious cavalier, and he affected deep interest in the whispered questions of one of the young women in the rear of the group. The Iron Game A Tale of the War

Certainly the New Englanders are conceited and bumptious, and in this also they keep up their British characteristics. The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters

Our Winnipeg acquaintances tell us that A—— is quite a changed man, so cheery and even bumptious, and that everything is now "What we do at the farm." A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba

If we take trouble to feed you it's not bumptious to ask you not to be late for your food. Hobson's Choice

Of all such persons, the one with microscopes in his bumps for eyes is the most bumptious. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870

A Fairy Story modelled on the Ugly Duckling of Hans Andersen about a bumptious boy whom all the nice boys hated. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

At no time were they free from the curious gaze of the people who filled the place, a noisy bumptious crowd of country people making the most of a holiday. The Rose in the Ring

And the young man went as he came—full of himself, his clothes, his good looks; bumptious and arrogant, effusive in his love of his friends, and yet sincere. Spring Days

Providence has decreed that you should lack a mother's hand at the time when single girls grow bumptious and must have somebody to rule. Hobson's Choice

From being full of bumptious, almost condescending good-nature, his expression had changed into one of stony incivility. The Evil Shepherd

Mr. Skinner was a man still on the sunny side of middle life, smart, capable, cold-blooded, a little bumptious, and, like the late Julius Caesar, ambitious. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley

No; I won't hurt the brat if he behaves himself and doesn't get bumptious. The Young Explorer

His name was Shane and he strode into the room with a bumptious, self-important air, his burly frame looking especially awkward and unwieldy in the gentle surroundings. Raspberry Jam

I don't think I shall be quite so bumptious, and I am quite sure I shall value my Cherie's tenderness much better than I have ever done, more shame for me! The Long Vacation

The prize-fighting gent, however, became too bumptious, and was eventually hustled out of the place. Spinifex and Sand

But Craig was apparently merely making one of his familiar bumptious speeches. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel

This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

The chairman had lost his sneer and his bumptious confidence. The Landloper

Dad says he's not bad at heart, only so spoilt—and he's just terribly bumptious, Jim, and thinks he can do everything; and his clothes are lovely! Mates at Billabong

No, bumptious reader, this story is not a continuation of the Elsie series. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million

He however seemed quite unconscious of anything peculiar in his appearance and was so bumptious and offensive that most of the men were almost glad when Nimrod came back. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Since diplomatic interposition no longer availed, American marines were landed in Nicaragua, and the bumptious Zelaya was induced to have his country meet its neighbors in a conference at Washington. Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors

It's some of those secular priests, ignorant, bumptious——" "They're all good men," said Mr. Cunningham, "each in his own way. Dubliners

Does this bit of a peace make you so bumptious? Minna Von Barnhelm

Rickie was prepared to find his old schoolfellow ungrammatical and bumptious, but he was not prepared to find him peevish. The Longest Journey

He was markedly not bumptious, at all events. T. Tembarom

And I got quite a new glimpse of that sometimes bumptious person known as David Grayson. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment

The shapeless, bumptious, foolish Pest of two months ago had vanished. Bruce

But still he could not yet be bumptious. Active Service

Here he lived, absolutely happy, and unaware that Mrs. Failing had poked him up here on purpose, to prevent him from growing too bumptious. The Longest Journey

Mr. Lincoln said he saw that the accuser was a boastful and bumptious man, and so asked him: 'How much ground was there over which you and my client fought?' My Memories of Eighty Years

Odd it never struck me before; but I suppose I have been about the most bumptious, conceited fool that ever happened. Something New

With about $4,000 between us we hit that bumptious little town off the New Jersey coast they call New York. The Gentle Grafter

Sanity, of course, seems a very bumptious eccentric thing to us. Manalive

Father reported with glee Dr. Hammerfield's judgment of Ernest, which was to the effect that he was "an insolent young puppy, made bumptious by a little and very inadequate learning." The Iron Heel

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例句	bumptious It was their confidence, maybe—their blissful, swinish ignorance, their bumptious self-satisfaction, and, worst of all, their hope. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A clear-eyed view of young Churchill as a bumptious self-promoter whose exploits in Africa were as farcical as they were courageous. Notable nonfiction books in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Along the way Drake came to embody a streak of Englishness — bumptious, tenacious, patriotic, crafty, vainglorious and defiantly exceptionalist — that is back with a vengeance. How Sir Francis Drake and Queen Elizabeth I Made England a Global Power 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z There is a tonal ambiguity to the bumptious romantic pursuit that follows, a surprisingly tremulous and fragile air, which may be what dismayed critics who were expecting a more conventional drama. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z After detours into riotous improvisation, the performance eventually hurtles into a bumptious, tuba-driven conclusion. ‘Mastery and Transgression’ in Music That Bridges Genres 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z His phrasing and touch in the Un poco adagio opened up worlds of expression, and his bumptious, off-kilter accents in the Hungarian-themed Rondo never disturbed the flowing, propulsive stream of notes. Conductor Mario Venzago energizes Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z This and other examples of Don’s incredibly bumptious approach to life and desserts were laid out in a profile in GQ. Is CNN's Don Lemon the most aptly named man on TV? 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z Older Lavelle might be less bumptious, but it's clear the appetite for the hustle is as strong as ever. Mo' Wax after 21 years: James Lavelle goes for a trip-hop down memory lane 2013-06-12T10:00:25Z Turns out I was right, as seen in Hess’s bumptious follow-up, “Nacho Libre,” and, even more, in “Gentlemen Broncos,” which raises the fusion of religion and pop culture to ecstatic and loopy new heights. Jared Hess’s Bitter Religious Satire, “Don Verdean” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Promisingly, they also saw in the bumptious and belligerent "Old Hickory" some linkage to the current occupant of the White House and a way to dramatize major issues involved in America's coming of age. Remembering Michael Friedman: Interview from the earliest days of 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z In program notes Mr. Morrison cites the dances for Tatiana’s name-day celebration, Tchaikovsky’s being not nearly rustic or bumptious enough for Prokofiev’s taste. Music Review: Prokofiev Version of ?Eugene Onegin? at Princeton 2012-02-12T23:34:22Z Similarly wide-ranging is León’s “Alma” — the lyrical opening of which follows a winding, entertaining path toward the bumptious rhythmic fillips of its central section. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The original British version, starring Ricky Gervais, has been copied in places as disparate as Chile and France, proving that office life under a bumptious boss is apparently universal. ‘The Office’ Finale 2013-05-01T12:00:01Z After so much serious treatment in the last decade or so, it’s nice to once again see them portrayed as bumptious, overdressed dweebs who’ve outlived their own cachet. Review \| ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ finds a little life left in the mockumentary format 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z But you will warm to his bumptious company. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z Writing in The New York Times, the critic Roberta Smith described Mr. Bickerton’s pieces in that show as “the most bumptious, engaging and least didactic on view.” Ashley Bickerton, Whose Art Evoked Humor and Wonder, Dies at 63 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z If Mr. van Zweden wanted razzle-dazzle, perhaps something by Gershwin or Bernstein — the kind of bumptious American music to which Ms. León looks back, with loving yet wary eyes. Review: A Tale of Two Women at the New York Philharmonic 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Mulaney has only compounded his risk by creating a show bearing his own name, playing a young comic who writes for a bumptious game show host played by Martin Short. New Sitcom Tries Old Form: Laughs Allowed 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z But the roughly 50 bowls, cups, vases and pitchers in this stunning exhibition testify to a creative sensibility much different from his bumptious public persona. Review: In ‘No Two Alike,’ George Ohr’s Pottery Plays on Convention 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The brief, bumptious chapters cover roughly a year, and the lead player doesn’t come of age so much as rip away childhood’s masks. Review \| A teenager meets the family she didn’t know existed in ‘A Girl Returned’ 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z A bumptious, unruly kid, he once, in a rage of self-loathing, tore a bathroom sink from its mounting. New Harvard graduate tells dad: ‘Now, I want to play Ultimate Frisbee’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z For Michael Winner, that bumptious remnant from the unregulated days of British film production, it's a needless extension of the welfare state. Where now for the British film industry? 2010-10-07T22:00:00Z Though he has clearly calmed down since the days when he was known as one of the more bumptious hustlers of 90s music, Lavelle is still not troubled by modesty about the label. Mo' Wax after 21 years: James Lavelle goes for a trip-hop down memory lane 2013-06-12T10:00:25Z Educated at Cambridge, living prosperously as a family law solicitor, he's changed his name from Gary to the more posh Nick, and cut off ties to his bumptious working-class family. Dean comes by sentiment honestly in 'Old Romantic' 2011-02-16T17:01:05Z I like the Rolling Stones, but I like them a little less now that I’ve read Keith Richards’ Life, which I found bumptious and self-involved. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z In a green-and-white sweater vest, mouse ears and a little mouse nose with whiskers, the lanky Dinolfo cuts a dapper figure as Stuart — happy and bumptious and fond of quoting speeches from films. ‘Stuart Little’ gets a larger-than-life stage adaptation at Adventure Theatre MTC So bumptious an opening, at once comic and tragic, raucous and dreary, overcomes the challenges of long names, unknown moonshine and “skin-rotten street dogs whimpering in their dreams.” Review \| Decades after the raucous ‘Harbart’ became a cult classic in India, a translation finally arrives 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Scott Shepherd and Ari Fliakos take turns incarnating the brash, bumptious Mailer, whose offensive remarks rile the panelists and audience member to the point of near riot. When feminist debate turns into an ideological free-for-all: It's the Wooster Group's 'Town Hall Affair' 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Oren, more interested in small gestures than gleaming sound, begins the first scene with bumptious brasses and a breakneck tempo that make the room spin, spelling disaster for Verdi’s hard-partying demimondaine. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z The bumptious Scherzo was outstanding, Lin again taking flight in the crazy trio section. A changed sound is heard in Juilliard Quartet’s concert at Library of Congress 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The unifying thread of the novel, to the extent that there is one, is Ogden Hall, a boarding school for boys in the Illinois countryside, founded in 1914 by a bumptious, headstrong millionaire. Ward Just's novel 'Rodin's Debutante': converging lives, loose ends 2011-03-09T23:49:04Z When last we encountered Jesus Quintana, the bumptious Latino bowler was going door-to-door in his new neighborhood, meekly sharing that he was a registered sex offender. Nobody Messes With the Jesus (Except for John Turturro) 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Fans of his crazy, bumptious, brilliant creations will be hoping he manages to corral his characters for long enough to produce their final outing. Andy Mulligan's school rules 2011-08-05T15:34:00Z These dragons are not awaiting a human slayer, a bumptious avatar of St. George. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z It's unrecognisable from the bumptious singalong it became - the words Yellow and Submarine are conspicuously absent - but Martin says the development of the song shows the Beatles at their most harmonious. Beatles' Revolver: 'It's time travel' says Giles Martin 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Gould and his bumptious crony Jim Fisk fought back by buying cows in Chicago and, in Steinmetz’s words, “shipping them to market at Vanderbilt’s bargain rates.” Review \| The life of Jay Gould, America’s most cunning Wall Street wizard 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Soviet GM Mark Taimanov, Fischer’s first victim, was both outclassed and under debilitating pressure from officials back home to stop the bumptious American. Fischer was a model of sanity and realism — at the chessboard 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Britain's upper classes seemed to admire the South’s aristocratic tone and disliked the North’s bumptious democracy. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z But the most thrilling cameos on “Certified Lover Boy” come from two veterans, Rick Ross and Lil Wayne, who tear through their verses in the bumptious “You Only Live Twice” with refreshed vigor and attitude. 'Donda' was pure psychodrama; Drake's 'Certified Lover Boy' is irresistible even at its bleakest 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z In this company England are a minor cast member, the bumptious cartoon dog, dukes up, who keeps on yappily inserting itself into the centre of the story. Euro 2020: latest news and buildup as the knockout stages begin – live! 2021-06-26T04:00:00Z Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, describes the Duke of York as "noisy, bumptious," but also "very charming, when he wants to be," in the documentary, the Mail reported. Queen Elizabeth ‘frustrated’ by Prince Charles, closer to Prince Andrew: expert 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z For them, Trumpism’s bumptious character, theatricality and venom are selling points: the unfiltered id kicking the bossy superego in the shins. Perspective \| Trumpism expanded the GOP tent. Don’t expect Republicans to abandon it now. 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z But if the tech industry’s bumptious history with antitrust enforcement is any lesson, a caretaker who has reluctantly stepped into the spotlight might be preferable to a charismatic leader born to it. Google Antitrust Fight Thrusts Low-Key C.E.O. Into the Line of Fire 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z He plucks a child from the bumptious autograph scrum at the U.S. Perspective \| Novak Djokovic isn’t Federer or Nadal. Don’t heckle him. He’s still one of the greats. 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Israel earned the right to host this year's competition after winning last year's event in Lisbon with Netta's bumptious floor-filler Toy. Darude: From Sandstorm to Eurovision 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z The many crimes of the empire’s bumptious adventurers were enabled by Britain’s great geopolitical power and then obscured by its cultural prestige. Opinion \| The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z So, we shouldn’t be surprised when institutional efforts to corral their work feel bumptious and disorderly. Review: Avant-garde and self-taught artists intersect at LACMA's 'Outliers and American Vanguard Art' 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z I used to hope someone else might trumpet my foreign sales for me, thinking only men got to be bumptious and beloved. Opinion \| I Want to Be Rich and I’m Not Sorry 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Happily, that is not the case with “Ferdinand,” an animated film inspired by Munro Leaf’s 1936 children’s classic that brims with bumptious fun, droll characters and poignant emotions. Review \| ‘Ferdinand’: The conscientious-objector bull of a children’s book gets a wider pasture in the movie 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z The biggest, upcoming concern is North Korea, where the US leader has recklessly threatened to rain down death and destruction on bumptious Kim Jong-un in response to the regime’s nuclear weapons build-up. Trump juggernaut rolls on after White House generals avert disaster on Iran deal 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z I’m indebted to Luis Gutiérrez, the bumptious congressman from Illinois’s Fourth District, for confirming what I long resisted acknowledging: America’s political discourse has been painfully coarsened. I Guess We’re All McCarthyites Now 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z A graphic novel about the bumptious philosophers of the seventeenth century? Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z Sitting glumly in the dock day after day, he cut a much-reduced figure compared with the bumptious dictator who strutted outside the comandancia. Manuel Noriega: feared dictator was the man who knew too much \| Simon Tisdall 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Church himself welcomed the comparison with “Pledge Allegiance to the Hag,” his bumptious tribute to the late Merle Haggard, who died last year. How Eric Church turned Staples Center into L.A.'s biggest bar 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Maybe the day of transformation will come soon and Trump will be nothing more than a bumptious, vulgar, ideologically unpredictable, utterly survivable conservative. Preserve, Protect, and Defend 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z It’s not hard to see why Republican voters might have been more attracted by Trump’s repudiation of the Iraq war than repelled by the bumptious and scurrilous way in which he expressed it. Trump and Iraq 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Nowadays, the US is the status quo power and China the bumptious usurper. Obama’s failed ‘Asian pivot’ leaves China ascendant \| Simon Tisdall 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z Particularly effective is her clear-eyed view of the young Churchill as a bumptious self-promoter whose exploits in Africa were as farcical as they were courageous. Winston Churchill, hungry for recognition at any cost 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The appalled GOP voters he is losing seem overwhelmed in number by independents and crossover Democrats increasingly attracted by his bumptious, raucous, smash-the-cucumber-frames style. Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fossilized, fearful media can’t touch Donald Trump 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Too much of a political novice and without Trump’s bumptious exuberance and slashing humor. Camille Paglia: This is why Trump’s winning, and why I won’t vote for Hillary 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Them much like his bumptious, Vegas kind of quarterback with almost twice as many turnovers as touchdowns in forever promising, Haslam said things are going to be different. Why the Cleveland Browns are champions of NFL's Black Monday 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z The singer’s job at that time was erasing her history as a Disney Channel star; “Bangerz” was self-consciously outrageous, full of in-your-face raunch and bumptious hip-hop beats. Here's how Miley Cyrus regained her mojo at the Wiltern on Saturday night 2015-12-20T05:00:00Z The “bad” stuff is bumptious—unfunny and in your face. What Advertising Does to TV 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z He was self-assured, glib, and, at times, bordering on bumptious. Obama Occupies Capitol Hill 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z And yes, I’m bumptious enough to think that I’m still right, even though that following crowd is an economist and public policy maker of the calibre of Larry Summers. Larry Summers Calls For A Carbon Tax Now That Oil Prices Have Fallen 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Onstage, Hope was a wise guy and a go-getter—“cocky, brash, and bumptious” was his own summing up. When Bob Hope Was Funny 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z His star career was over at 25; in the postwar Hollywood landscape, heroes were streaked by guilt and doom, and the bumptious vaudevillian found few people who wanted to put on his kind of show. The Long and the Short of Mickey Rooney 2014-04-07T20:56:20Z Her verdict: "I think I'd say they are bumptious on occasion, but I like bumptious." The geeks transforming how UK government does digital 2013-06-12T09:39:13Z Across the Atlantic, meanwhile, the bumptious US challenge to European military and economic suzerainty was on the rise. 2013, like 1913, could see epic transformations in world order 2012-12-30T17:01:01Z “Were there ever two girls as bumptious as those two?” The Twins in the South 2012-02-13T03:00:16.113Z Ambles was looking beautiful when we drove over last week, but Harold is a little bumptious and Hilda does not seem to see his faults. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z I hope I've not grown bumptious, but I'm not afraid now to think for myself and to say what I think. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z And all that was left to remind Lad of her was this bumptious and sharp-toothed little son of hers. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Wrote to a very bumptious child, thirteen years old, who proffers me her friendship and correspondence, claiming to have written poems and magazine contributions praised by 'noted authors.' Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z I remember that one rather bumptious American correspondent, on a visit to Queenstown, was loud in expressing his disapproval of this state of affairs, and even threatened to "expose" us all in the American press. The Victory At Sea 2012-01-17T03:00:15.547Z It was perfectly sincere, yet it sounded like the bumptious praise of a yokel. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The danger could be removed entirely if the American people would substitute intelligent study of the problem for bumptious conceit, and concerted action on right lines for aimless talk. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z He's a bit bumptious and unsympathetic, but I think we can show him that we could have done no less than we did. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z When he did turn up, there mingled with his apologies the bumptious assumption of ease with which he sought to make a joke of his negligence. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z But “our fellows” did hear of it, and the bumptious youth got unmercifully chaffed in consequence; which he most thoroughly deserved, and which, no doubt, did him a vast deal of good. The War of the Axe Adventures in South Africa 2011-10-10T02:00:22.657Z But you do not take sufficiently into consideration—and in this you imitate the bumptious clergyman who was going to have me removed—the world's cravings and necessities as a world. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z The man simply had no experience or understanding—a raw, crude, bumptious provincial, that's what he was! Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z She wrote him off then as “egotistical, bumptious, shallow-minded and reactionary.” Webb, Churchill and the Birth of the Welfare State: Sylvia Nasar 2011-09-08T00:22:04Z The tithing-man, that amusing but most bumptious public functionary of colonial times, was at first the official appointed to spy specially upon the ordinaries. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z He has the Australian accent strongly developed, he uses slang indiscriminately, and he is bumptious and aggressive. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z The majority of his friends, like himself, lead their short, bustling, bumptious, and frequently wholly useless lives, purblind always and entirely deaf where anything except their own interests is concerned. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z “There’s such a thing as duty, Mr Dorrien,” put in Turner, in a tone meant to convey a lofty rebuke, but which only struck the other as divertingly bumptious. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Kafirland is chock-full of bumptious, uneducated, hypocritical scamps, who live on the fat of the land, and are never happy unless meddling with what doesn’t concern them. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z I had to have this chap a bumptious, conceited sort of youth so as to have the contrast stronger when he met the hard knocks that were to come to him in the city. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Style: To some, authoritative, booming, and confident, to others, bumptious and ineffective. Mark Halperin Grades the New Hampshire Debate 2011-06-14T10:05:00Z Only once did a bumptious young miner attempt to ignore such instructions. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z "I did not mean to pose as an expert; you make me feel as if I had been too bumptious," replied Martine. Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z But it was not an English uncle "tipping" his bumptious American nephew with good advice, nor a pedagogue lecturing us upon our follies and defects, nor a supercilious foreigner condescending. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z A bumptious looking character mounted to the entrance, and sent in a card. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Professor Kürtchen was helped by a yet younger assistant teacher with a doctor's degree—a good-humoured, energetic man, bumptious but enthusiastic, who influenced Klaus Heinrich's views and conscience perhaps more than was good for him. Royal Highness 2011-05-05T02:00:22.363Z 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". VIDEO: UK economy 're-entering danger zone' - Balls 2011-03-24T18:53:44Z That said, the US ambassador who saw him work a lunch table in central Asia – and was leaked via WikiLeaks – found him bumptious and irritating. Prince Andrew row: we should take the long view 2011-03-07T11:08:13Z I had been boastful and bumptious; I had been disrespectful and absurd. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z "And to me he seems such a harmless, inoffensive person, absolutely without self-consciousness and not in the least bumptious." The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z But it should be something to show them all that he could no longer be bossed and insulted and jeered at—all in that bumptious, braggadocio, bucko spirit of the woods! King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z He’s not nearly as conservative or confrontational as the bumptious crop of new members that made possible the final stage of his rise from bar mopper to House speaker. Boehner’s House Party Kicks Can One More Day: Margaret Carlson 2011-01-06T02:57:37Z I'm sure she's right though there is always a market for bumptious and irritating. Prince Andrew row: we should take the long view 2011-03-07T11:08:13Z I don't think the Canadian would grow bumptious if the Englishman didn't snub. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z "What on earth has he to be bumptious about?" The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z I don’t doubt that Central Park was a more challenging endeavor than Prospect Park, where the land was cheaper, the earth more pliable, and the politics less bumptious. Central Park vs. Prospect Park 2010-07-11T00:48:00Z These Spanish chaps are so cocky and bumptious, and ready to take everything as being meant as an insult. Real Gold A Story of Adventure Even Boleslav himself, though two years younger, and of a retiring nature that had little in common with the elder boy's somewhat bumptious temperament, was much influenced by him. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers The Englishman snubs and the Canadian grows bumptious. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z I do not know what the bumptious commandant thought of it, but he pulled his mustaches very, very hard. The Seven-Branched Candlestick The Schooldays of Young American Jew The bumptious aphorism was a sign that Farwell was still himself. A Bed of Roses Tell me if the bumptious rose does not generally carry the day over the modest, retiring violet?' Rambles in Womanland A man, to be up to date, had to be brief, brusque, and bumptious. Fragments of an Autobiography Inglefield could be bumptious and quarrelsome at times, but he had a poor life of it, with a detestable wife, and an appointment of no great emolument, nor holding out any particular prospect of advancement. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Unarmed and a prisoner, he was a very different individual from the bumptious Boer who had been taught a lesson by Jack only a few months before. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War “Of all the bumptious old clodhoppers!” muttered Harry Maitland, scowling after the retreating form. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley I rather lost my temper, for they became beastly bumptious, you know, and at one time made as if they’d try to prevent us.” A Frontier Mystery He had just succeeded to a lot of money, you know, and became afflicted with swelled head there and then; in fact, became intolerably bumptious.” The Triumph of Hilary Blachland The Dutchmen up in the Rooi-Ruggensberg are as bumptious as they can be. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion He really is one of the most uppish of the many bumptious Boers to be met with here and in Pretoria, and of course in other towns in the Transvaal. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War And this malice prepense never uprose within him, except in the presence of some bumptious, ignorant nobody. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections "We used to be rather bumptious about family," said Conway, laughing; "but I suspect the world has taught us to get rid of some of our conceit." Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Presbury, with no thought in his bumptious head of meeting Hugh Whitaker before the Day of Judgment, looked at and through him without a hint of recognition; but his wife was another person altogether. The Destroying Angel The men around understood; nothing pleased them better than to see a bumptious young Aid sat down upon, and they were outspoken in their delight. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign He was bumptious to a degree, and openly expressed his hatred of all Englishmen. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War In private life Forster had the character of a bumptious busybody, which character indeed the two books just mentioned, even without the anecdotes abundant in more recent books of biography, abundantly establish. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) His manners were subdued, and gave no hint of the bumptious acrobat he might live to be. Upon The Tree-Tops Then B: "A bushy cat," "A bruised cat," "A bellicose cat," "A bumptious cat," and so on. What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes The youngest Egyptologist—being in truth a somewhat bumptious man, fresh from Oxford by way of Cairo and Alexandria—had presumed to make a little feint of sword-play with one of the lecturer's diffident remarks. Name and Fame A Novel If any young man in London had the right to be bumptious and didactic, Henry had. A Great Man A Frolic The artist had vindicated not only himself, but his art, from the attacks of the ignorant and bumptious. Six Centuries of Painting As the young progressed and waxed bumptious, she became more and more cautious. Upon The Tree-Tops The next day the king, who loved a jest, summoned his court to a meadow to witness the race, and to see what the bumptious pygmy could do. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden It turned by chance on a certain barrister of Sydney's inn, a Mr. Barrington Baynes, whom one of the party not incorrectly described as "that beautiful, bumptious, and briefless barrister, B. B." Name and Fame A Novel The bumptious braggadocio that European military nations have developed has no counterpart in Japan. The Empire of the East His intense patriotism was all for peace; classical learning never made him dry or bumptious, nor the favour of kings servile. Six Centuries of Painting Here, too, the teacher sows the seeds of that crude and wilful misinterpretation of the classics, which later on disports itself as art-criticism, and which is nothing but bumptious barbarity. On the Future of our Educational Institutions Oh, I say, doesn’t it seem bumptious for one to think of himself as a man? Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop He is not bumptious nor self-assertive, like many others; he rarely teases, and is altogether a well-mannered and proper young person. A Bird-Lover in the West “I’m not as bumptious as I was a few years ago,” he commented. The Dominant Dollar I think that Addison sat next, and after him Halstead, who assumed a somewhat bumptious air, which was to an extent reflected in his picture. When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine Indifferent and bumptious actors," said Handy to a friend, "are always looking for what they call big money. A Pirate of Parts We were only afraid that they might become a little too bumptious on the strength of it, and be after giving us another job. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Bullfinch, looking as if he had just taken a prize at Islington and was inclined to be bumptious about it. Vixen, Volume II. "Now the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is gumptious." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Herbert mentally voted his cousin a bumptious brat of a girl. Queensland Cousins What could have made him act so foolishly as to go up there only to be turned away by that bumptious porter? Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant She's a typical high echelon Washington secretary, cool, extremely well-mannered, cheerful without being bumptious. Tinker's Dam “They so disgusted our great English company-starting capitalist that he would come no further with us; and we were well rid of his bumptious airs and vulgarity for the rest of the journey.” Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek "Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious," said the landlord, delighted to puzzle a Parson. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Even her bumptious rudeness could not conceal the jubilation with which she'd penned it. Greener Than You Think He was vulgar and bumptious in manner until he became polished by concerting with 'swells' after the success of his entertainments. The History of "Punch" But, father," I exclaimed, being aroused by this injustice to defend myself, "Professor Blight said that I must be one of those bumptious Malcolms. David Malcolm “Why, I’m teaching this new fry to be less bumptious, that’s all.” Eric, or Little by Little If he was lacking in geniality and address, he was, at all events, neither bumptious nor servile. The Ffolliots of Redmarley The bumptious subject, by giving himself autosuggestions to comply with various posthypnotic suggestions, is actually engaging in our technique of role playing. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis In the middle of Europe, a thoroughly disillusioned, indolent and delightful old continent, the Germans were a dangerous mass of energy and bumptious push. Pipefuls "Yes, sir," I returned proudly, for the word "bumptious" had a ring of importance in it, and I had every reason to believe that the Malcolms were persons of quite large importance. David Malcolm The blundering inanity of this kind of writing is equaled only by its bumptious grandiloquence. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. But I somehow felt greatly abashed while returning home, as if I had acted like a raw and bumptious youth in thus thrusting myself upon him unasked and unintroduced. My Reminiscences He was commonly supposed to be sulky, and some people thought his tone of voice bumptious and insolent. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) Such a life might be a lesson, if anything could, to the bumptious and “efficient” and smug. Pipefuls To the butcher's son and the blacksmith's boy and their like, the restless masses, I was indeed a bumptious Malcolm. David Malcolm Think how Reade himself would have borne himself—then strike out from it all the bumptious and aggressive parts—and be the rest. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile For once in a way, that the rule might be proved, the greater part of this bumptious paragraph was true. The Genius To one rather bumptious youth he said:—"And what are you going to do with your life?" Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography He is simple, not bumptious, gives himself no airs of traditional culture or modern education, and therefore recommends himself. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 “I wish I could be as bumptious as you are with them,” said Ned, with a faint smile. The Rajah of Dah Dear me, how bumptious we are, young fellow. The Black Bar I felt sick as soon as I knew what was going to happen, but I won’t be such a bumptious, bragging sneak as he is. Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser “Now, Mister Leigh, don’t you go on for being bumptious, now, my lad!” replied Jorrocks, laughing heartily at my drawing myself up on my dignity. On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story I had forgotten all about those bumptious lumps! Patty Blossom "Sit down, bumptious babe!" said the priest, tugging the lad's coat. Lords of the North Erskine, examining a bumptious fellow, asked him, if he were not a rider? The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings The “intelligent public opinion” of Europe thought Copernicus, and Bruno, and Galileo, and Luther very bumptious sorts of persons. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 A bumptious military cult has usurped its place. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life A young and somewhat bumptious ensign, who knew not of the fame of the doctor as a naturalist, called out: "There are some deer, there are some deer." Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon I remember that I became successively irate, pathetic, and bumptious in my secret soul. The Opinions of a Philosopher Never, indeed, was a more bumptious, conceited, and disagreeable set of personages created by an author, under the impression that they were the reverse. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters We once had a very bumptious member on our board of judges. The Amateur Garden Had he found an all-important clue in one of the many little pigeon-holes and drawers, stuffing it into his pocket just before a bumptious young "special investigator" had arrived? Murder at Bridge “She’s just as bumptious next time, all the same,” said Clement. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls And all this, said Byrne, between his set teeth, because a bumptious agent sought to lay forceful hands upon the daughter of a chief. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier Ross still feared one of those snubs the other so well knew how to deliver to the bumptious. The Time Traders Meaning that it is his, or one of his," commented Geoffrey; "you see for yourself what a bumptious babe it is, Miss Carson. The Rebellion of Margaret There was nothing bumptious or even dictatorial in Kitty's manner; she merely wanted to show them how a Queen ought to act. Marjorie at Seacote A Texas outlaw succeeded in inducing a young Englishman of the verdantly bumptious and moneyed sort to go homestead hunting with him. The Canadian Commonwealth "I suppose, like most little men, he is as vain as he can stick, bumptious, and fidgety," said Venning, despondently. In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa On the contrary, if criticism is not strong it cannot lift a young genius out of the struggling crowd, and it cannot beat down some bumptious impostor. Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses He thought Mr. Hayne too bumptious to live; but he bore no malice, and his wrath was soon over. The Deserter He looks as big as all out-of-doors, and e'en Bumble was hardly as bumptious. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 3, 1892 Ten years ago this question would have been considered the bumptious presumption of flamboyant fancy. The Canadian Commonwealth He was game, all right, however bumptious and self-satisfied. Children of the Wild Mr. Bell was as thin as his wife was fat, and as quiet and unassuming as she was bumptious and talkative. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town One hot day last summer he was accompanying a bumptious sportsman, of very small stature, when he was greatly troubled by gnats. Best Short Stories You bumptious little midget, do you think First Cause is going to trouble Itself about you and your petty concerns? The Law and the Word I will mention that "bang-up" and "bumptious," and that class of expressions were her favorites, and the best-educated boy or girl will be able to imagine the rest. The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin He had probably been thinking it over, and come to the conclusion that they were getting too bumptious. Children of the Wild Only bumptious fools do that, and they are called liars for their pains. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 Open next I flung the shutter, when, with a prodigious flutter, In there stepped a bumptious Raven, black as any blackamoor. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 31, 1891 The house belonged to a Prussian subject of the name of Probsfeld, a terribly self-opinionated North German, with all the bumptious proclivities of that thriving nation most fully developed.' The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America My name is Butterworth, and it's got a handle to it,' said that bumptious lady, quickly. Sevenoaks Is there even now a spot into which the bumptious, mannerless, ubiquitous little pleb has not pushed himself? Roof and Meadow While the equine was stretched upon the ground, peacefully sleeping, his bumptious owner, in charging over his body, had stumbled and fallen. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne No one could justly say that the Shalems were either oppressively vulgar or insufferably bumptious; probably the chief reason for their lack of popularity was their intense and obvious desire to be popular. When William Came "Don't ever be bumptious?" squinted the Senior Surgeon perplexedly through his glasses. The White Linen Nurse If an Editor finds himself present, should he return thanks for the Press himself, or leave that duty in the hands of a bumptious Reporter. Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892 The empty shibboleths—the loud and blatant voice—the bumptious temper—that make the commoner form of Tory—all are there. Sketches in the House (1893) The latter has some bumptious and comical allusions to "world conquerors," the Germans suffering badly at the time from an attack of swelled head, subsequent to their defeat of the unhappy, unprepared French. Wagner Its mere formulation in words rendered it bumptious and presumptuous. The Street Called Straight And my Father said that, when I came home in June, if I could honestly say that I'd never once been bumptious—all my three years here,—he'd give me a—heifer! The White Linen Nurse To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British. Reviews When the ship of Boston's chief citizen was seized by the bumptious, gilt-braided British officials, there was a merry uproar. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen I wish," wrote Cowley, on July 28, "that the French were inclined to be more bumptious, as they seemed to be at first. Great Britain and the American Civil War He is a bumptious and jolly Junker, just as Lord Curzon is an uppish Junker. New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index You mean?" she stammered, "you mean—that I've—been—bumptious—just now? The White Linen Nurse True, the Socialists in her confidence had been noisy and bumptious of late in order to concentrate attention upon their sex, and at the same time careful to refrain from definite statements or overt acts.... The White Morning Most of us librarians have had experiences with these bumptious “owners” of public property. A Librarian's Open Shelf I have heard this story before, and in a different key: The preacher was a young, bumptious fellow, fond of quoting the classics, etc. The Parish Clerk On this occasion it is not etiquette for the candidates themselves to be in waiting,—it looks too "bumptious." A Collection of College Words and Customs "Don't—Ever—Be—bumptious!" she read forth jerkily with a questioning, incredulous sort of emphasis. The White Linen Nurse He meant to show the bumptious Centrals a thing or two. The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics Feeling inferior and groping around in pleasurable associations so inextricably linked to pain it was sometimes bumptious, aggressive, and striving to leave a concept of its superiority onto the other dog's mind. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Take the estimate of his authority, and imagine the supply of food from this country into England stopped, and the bumptious little island necklaced with Monitors to cut off the Continental supply. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 He took it like the bumptious idiot he can be, at first. Strawberry Acres "Why, I'm teaching this new fry to be less bumptious, that's all." Eric Still a man writing in a humorous vein naturally adopts a certain bumptious tone, just as our friend "Punch" ostentatiously declares himself to be omniscient and infallible. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice There is no better place to send a spoiled, undisciplined, bumptious youth than to a British trench. My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form One gathers that Lucifer, Son of the Morning, was not conceited, snobbish, nor bumptious. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life This character has given to the language the word bumbledom, the officious arrogance and bumptious conceit of a parish authority or petty dignitary. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Perhaps he had an animus against these bumptious, undeferential, overcritical Americans, and thought it was time to give one of them a lesson. In the Claws of the German Eagle I heard that Mr. Sharp's wig didn't fit him; and that he needn't be so 'bounceable'—somebody else said 'bumptious'—about it, because his own red hair was very plainly to be seen behind. David Copperfield Of course I shall be told that it adds to the prestige of Great Britain, but this is an empty, bumptious boast dearly paid for by the British tax-payer. America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat A bumptious colored person wearing a derby tipped over one eye, and a cigar in his mouth pointing to the northwest, walked into a hardware store and remarked, "Lemme see your razors." John Jacob Astor B. P. T., just an abbreviation of bumptious. Blix I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation. A Study in Scarlet I sent up my card, and a few minutes later was shown into a private salon more appropriate to a beautiful young duchess than to a middle-aged, bumptious financier. It Happened in Egypt He's a very stiff 'un, is Spavin, and he comes it uncommon bumptious about his character, and so on. Run to Earth A Novel Lestrange was not exactly stuck-up; he had feared the fellow was bumptious, and felt there was no knowing what he might say next, but by this time had ceased to imagine his dignity in danger. There & Back He was a kindly, honourable, somewhat bumptious man—but what great talkers think small matter of themselves? In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc I will button you up in a jiffy and we can take this bumptious little person along with us. The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill Jared was an ignorant and rather bumptious young fellow of twenty-four, who was hoping to make something of himself, and was feeling about for the means. Under the Skylights Coming here to herald your call, Senator Corson, I have been insulted by a bumptious understrapper and held in leash by an ignorant policeman. All-Wool Morrison The appearance and activities of the creature are such as to establish the delusion that it is not altogether amicable in its attitude towards even such a bumptious and authoritative product of Nature as man. My Tropic Isle Yeh's tone when he was taken was to be rather bumptious. Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin Much annoyed at his bumptious manner, I was resolved now, come what would, to pay him off. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) "This folly, this falsity, this bumptious vulgarity—shall we not put an end to it?" cried the Doctor. Under the Skylights And a bumptious, blundering, bull-headed Scotchman had put the Governor of a state in that tongue-tied, skulking position on the proud day of inauguration! All-Wool Morrison Of course we refer to phrenological bumps, from which, possibly, the powerful adjective "bumptious" is derived, it being applicable to a person whose conflicting bumps keep him continually on the rampage. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870 The roar that saluted this retort subdued the bumptious cavalier, and he affected deep interest in the whispered questions of one of the young women in the rear of the group. The Iron Game A Tale of the War Certainly the New Englanders are conceited and bumptious, and in this also they keep up their British characteristics. The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : letters Our Winnipeg acquaintances tell us that A—— is quite a changed man, so cheery and even bumptious, and that everything is now "What we do at the farm." A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba If we take trouble to feed you it's not bumptious to ask you not to be late for your food. Hobson's Choice Of all such persons, the one with microscopes in his bumps for eyes is the most bumptious. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 33, November 12, 1870 A Fairy Story modelled on the Ugly Duckling of Hans Andersen about a bumptious boy whom all the nice boys hated. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler At no time were they free from the curious gaze of the people who filled the place, a noisy bumptious crowd of country people making the most of a holiday. The Rose in the Ring And the young man went as he came—full of himself, his clothes, his good looks; bumptious and arrogant, effusive in his love of his friends, and yet sincere. Spring Days Providence has decreed that you should lack a mother's hand at the time when single girls grow bumptious and must have somebody to rule. Hobson's Choice From being full of bumptious, almost condescending good-nature, his expression had changed into one of stony incivility. The Evil Shepherd Mr. Skinner was a man still on the sunny side of middle life, smart, capable, cold-blooded, a little bumptious, and, like the late Julius Caesar, ambitious. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley No; I won't hurt the brat if he behaves himself and doesn't get bumptious. The Young Explorer His name was Shane and he strode into the room with a bumptious, self-important air, his burly frame looking especially awkward and unwieldy in the gentle surroundings. Raspberry Jam I don't think I shall be quite so bumptious, and I am quite sure I shall value my Cherie's tenderness much better than I have ever done, more shame for me! The Long Vacation The prize-fighting gent, however, became too bumptious, and was eventually hustled out of the place. Spinifex and Sand But Craig was apparently merely making one of his familiar bumptious speeches. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic, a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters The chairman had lost his sneer and his bumptious confidence. The Landloper Dad says he's not bad at heart, only so spoilt—and he's just terribly bumptious, Jim, and thinks he can do everything; and his clothes are lovely! Mates at Billabong No, bumptious reader, this story is not a continuation of the Elsie series. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million He however seemed quite unconscious of anything peculiar in his appearance and was so bumptious and offensive that most of the men were almost glad when Nimrod came back. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Since diplomatic interposition no longer availed, American marines were landed in Nicaragua, and the bumptious Zelaya was induced to have his country meet its neighbors in a conference at Washington. Hispanic Nations of the New World; a chronicle of our southern neighbors It's some of those secular priests, ignorant, bumptious——" "They're all good men," said Mr. Cunningham, "each in his own way. Dubliners Does this bit of a peace make you so bumptious? Minna Von Barnhelm Rickie was prepared to find his old schoolfellow ungrammatical and bumptious, but he was not prepared to find him peevish. The Longest Journey He was markedly not bumptious, at all events. T. Tembarom And I got quite a new glimpse of that sometimes bumptious person known as David Grayson. The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment The shapeless, bumptious, foolish Pest of two months ago had vanished. Bruce But still he could not yet be bumptious. Active Service Here he lived, absolutely happy, and unaware that Mrs. Failing had poked him up here on purpose, to prevent him from growing too bumptious. The Longest Journey Mr. Lincoln said he saw that the accuser was a boastful and bumptious man, and so asked him: 'How much ground was there over which you and my client fought?' My Memories of Eighty Years Odd it never struck me before; but I suppose I have been about the most bumptious, conceited fool that ever happened. Something New With about $4,000 between us we hit that bumptious little town off the New Jersey coast they call New York. The Gentle Grafter Sanity, of course, seems a very bumptious eccentric thing to us. Manalive Father reported with glee Dr. Hammerfield's judgment of Ernest, which was to the effect that he was "an insolent young puppy, made bumptious by a little and very inadequate learning." The Iron Heel
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