Impertinence

Please accept my sincere apologies for my impertinence.

Please forgive my impertinence.

That is the height of impertinence.

"Enough, sir! " he thundered with barely restrained fury. "Enough, I say! Once and for all I must endeavour to rid myself of you and your impertinence.

"Because," interrupted the actress, "I see things exactly as they are. I calculate my effects, but they do not deceive myself; you, on the contrary, live in a world of illusions, where every thing is called by such an exceedingly fine name, that it seems a downright impertinence to ascertain what it really is."

The musical has always had a lightness of touch, an impertinence that resembles gay humor.