Word: bumptiousness
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...literally. His actress-wife Marion (Catherine Deneuve) has fixed up a secret apartment for him beneath the theater's stage. Steiner listens to rehearsals and directs a new production by giving his notes to his wife during her nightly visits. By day, she tries to cope with her bumptious leading man (Gerard Depardieu), who is involved in the Resistance, and the affection that grows between them almost unconsciously. The chief menace is a smart, epicene drama critic and Nazi collaborator who senses the supposedly exiled Steiner may be near at hand...
...Dick Nixon the grocery clerk became Richard Nixon the politician, the gripes became political sore points. The beefy, "affable if sometimes bumptious" Don with the trademark ski-jump nose was a businessman of questionable ethics, apparently a family affliction. In the 1950s, he cashed in on his brother's vice-presidential status by opening Nixon's, a California fast-food chain that featured "Nixonburgers." When the chain developed a few weak links, Howard Hughes selflessly donated $205,000 to the cause, a loan that Don never repaid (a loan not unlike Colonel Khadaffi's contribution to Billy Carter's coffers...
...reviewers as 'epochmaking' and 'profound.'" Freud portrayed the cool reaction to an 1886 speech he gave on male hysteria as pigheadedness by an entrenched medical Establishment. In Sulloway's view, the doctors were unimpressed because Freud's message was old-hat-the bumptious young Freud had presumed to lecture his elders on matters they already well knew...
...sassy U.S.-based columnist who for 22 years interpreted America's wiles, whims and gossip in the London Daily Mail and papers on five continents; of a heart attack; in New York City. By depicting America as a "Rainbow Land" filled with steak-chomping faddists and wastrels, the bumptious Iddon ("Let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") delighted his readers and confirmed their preconceived notions of primitive Yankee ways...
...abrasive and bumptious, often irritating Capitol Hill Pooh-Bahs, and some White House aides, whose help he needs most. Yet a smile usually plays at the edges of his mouth, and his deep laughter is disarming. If he lacks compassion for his overworked aides, cursing their failures, they at least know he pushes himself even harder. And only a few cynical civil servants claim that his passion for publicity shows that a desire for self-promotion overrides his genuine concern for society's vulnerable children, the aged and the handicapped, whom his department is pledged to help...