It’s easy to mock – and I fully intend to – but it takes real imagination to come up with something like Elephant’s Breath or ...

(Time travel is the most obvious; an alternate universe is another example.) 5. Scientific impertinence (related to oxymoron)—sf tales (even those written by scrupulous scientists) generally violate ...

While most of this country’s institutions of higher learning tend to give precedence to the physical and emotional safety of their students over the protection of freedom of expression, they have ...

So the uneasy authorities decided that such impertinence must be silenced once and for all. But if Jesus really rose from the dead after being duly executed, then he stands as a challenge not only ...

In the latest Abibliophobia, Katelyn Nelson examines 'Huesera: The Bone Woman' and the novel 'Delicate Condition'.

Back in training, Hudson had suggested that I bust him to private for impertinence, and I had. When we went overseas he regained his rank, although he was still given to impudence and sly resistance.

Buchanan did not forward this impassioned communication to the House; presumably he considered their resolutions an impertinence. For the task of dealing with the possible disloyalty in the local ...

Really? Well then, that’s exactly right. I am your Lord! I offer my most humble respect and I apologize for the impertinence of these questions. Thank you. Proceed. (Laughs.) So, in some recent ...

They’ve got the impertinence to claim the Islands. I’ve just written to someone there to see what will happen to my envelopes.” Mail franked with stamps from the Centenary issue were charged ...

In his telling, the I.R.S. might well be an especially intrusive branch of proctology: “It is an insufferable impertinence of the federal government to ask why I have entertained my guests or ...