He knew this would be a feat of rare literary effrontery & goes on to contemplate what he will accomplish.
The nauseating effrontery of Michael Herzog's jeremiad at what he terms "the smile offensive" of Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, is breathtaking (Israel can't trust Iran, 28 September).
But Susan, who was well aware of her husband's ongoing affair with Todd, was outraged at what she perceived as Lavinia's betrayal and Todd's effrontery.
As always -- or at least over the past decade or so -- the most fascinating thing about Davos is not the empty effrontery of it all (that's old hat) but the fact that it's not what it used to be.
And here's what he wrote when he reviewed it in G2 this week: It is a work of some audacity, even effrontery, mixing pastiche Super 8 footage and faux home movies in with her genuine archive material, avowedly because the film is about the unreliability of memory and the consequent importance of democratising personal histories, allowing everyone to tell their stories and give their view.
What with America on the defensive in the Middle East and distracted anyway by its disputed presidential election, Mr Hussein's effrontery has so far gone more or less unchecked.
In his effrontery, Bertolucci put his abuse in front of the camera and like so many men of that era, maintains a tacit claim of permissive liberation and declines to see what was wrong.
"What that play is about, as much as anything" says Albee now, "is the misuse people put religion to - God in the image of man, and the effrontery of that".
These reflect badly on Mr Berlusconi as they show what sort of men and women acquired positions of influence under his long leadership.Antonio Piazza, a regional PdL leader, is accused of slashing the tyres of a disabled driver who had the effrontery to use a parking bay, reserved for the disabled, in which the PdL dignitary liked to leave his Jaguar.
