1
She should avoid forwardness, and be quiet in manner and in speech.
2
The maize granary at Parramatta was also in a state of forwardness.
3
He thereupon privately chid his wife for her forwardness in the matter.
4
The treaty for that purpose is in greater forwardness than you imagine.
5
Tsz-lu has forwardness enough for them both; therefore I hold him back.
1
No amount of greatness can make me understand that level of cockiness.
2
Probably not arrogance or cockiness; he hadn't struck her as the type.
3
I want to cripple his cockiness with the palm of my hand.
4
The cockiness of artists is enough to take away a man's breath.
5
The cockiness. An impatient hand gesture encompassed him from head to toe.
1
Deep down she'd begun to grow tired of Molly's smugness and pushiness.
2
The dining room had a calm, relaxed atmosphere without a hint of pushiness.
3
Right now, their fractious pushiness has a certain schoolyard charm.
4
I'm just looking, I said, flustered by his pushiness.
5
He was, as ever, courteous and attentive, but there was no new possessiveness or pushiness.
1
He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him.
2
Though he was intolerant of bumptiousness, the Cardinal liked young men.
3
But bumptiousness is elastic in France, as in England, and doubtless among the Esquimaux.
4
He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.
5
Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his bumptiousness gone.
6
When the first sharpness of death had passed from Ansdore, Joanna's sanguine nature, her hopeful bumptiousness, revived.
7
He was an autocrat in his own church, and ruffled them now and again with what they called his bumptiousness.
8
It is bitterly hard for us who have 1870 behind us. They feel that they should no longer be treated to such bumptiousness.
9
He had an immense amount of that sort of courage which, in the colloquial language of our times, would probably be described as bumptiousness.
10
It is a fascinating gift, when it is so restrained by taste and instinctive refinement as not to become what is known as bumptiousness.
11
I did not mean you, who are never easily effaced; but I was thinking of youthful bumptiousness, fostered by country life and elder sistership.'
12
He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him.
13
Though he was intolerant of bumptiousness, the Cardinal liked young men.
14
But bumptiousness is elastic in France, as in England, and doubtless among the Esquimaux.
15
He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness.
16
Jacson Gootes came limply from the phonebooth, his bumptiousness gone.