Both Uses of
insolent
in
Into the Wild
- Sleight, sixty-five years old, is a professional river guide and desert rat with a Mormon upbringing and a reputation for insolence.†
p. 95.7 *insolence = rude, disrespectful behavior or action
- The mountains are dead stone, the people
Admire or hate their stature, their insolent quietness,
The mountains are not softened or troubled
And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper.†p. 199.4
Definition:
rudely disrespectful