Barbara Tuchman's "The Guns of August," which traced the miscalculations that brought World War I, emboldened Kennedy to avoid similar errors during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Months into the process I emboldened myself to ask the question, "So if race is a factor in everything, how is it a factor in our conversations?" And he, with characteristic bluntness, said it's a factor in that I distrust you.
James stalked off in a fug of pissed-up arrogance, while I, emboldened with a sense of pissed-up self-righteousness, stood shouting at his back.
Kelsey strips down to her birthday suit immediately, and I, emboldened by vodka, take off my top on our private patio, which isn't actually so private, as anyone can walk by and say "hi" (and MANY do, and SOME don't leave for a long time).
I am emboldened by their responses as I share my sketches.
"I think in that way I was emboldened by seeing how Bryce and Aaron [Dessner, of the National] work in their life," he says, "and also how Kanye worked: 'I want that – get that.
In time I became emboldened and let them know what I was doing — at the time, focusing on my book manuscript.
I felt emboldened by their hidden life, as if I could lord their secret over them.
Feeling very much the author, I was emboldened to ask her whether she, too, had a kind of compulsion to write although I secretly doubted whether hers had the same source as mine.
Feeling very much the author, I was emboldened to ask her whether she, too, had a kind of compulsion to write — although I secretly doubted whether hers had the same source as mine.
