Sentence examples for a temerity from inspiring English sources

Chekhov, dipping into the waters of the Volga, washed that line away with a temerity that one doesn't normally associate with so "sweet" a writer.

But she had, as Johnson saw at once, a core of gentle empathy; she was one of those sprightly, satiric people who go right to the edge and over it, with what he called an "exuberance of flattery and a temerity of censure" — and then always clamber back, apologizing for making one wisecrack too many.

In a world of glibness and superficiality, he has a rare temerity of mind.

Given these statistical shortcomings, it takes a little temerity to suggest we can identify the precise year when services will overtake industry.

In a typically mordant moment from "The Zero," a novel with the temerity to give a disaster site a casual nickname, a boy named Edgar Remy tries to explain why he is mourning his lost father.

To the shock of anyone who has taught millennials, they (and their parents) think nothing of excoriating a professor with the temerity to give them a "bad" grade (as in, less than an "A").

Slightly tamer is Deep Temerity, a 180-acre bowl that opened last year and gives expert skiers an additional 1,000-foot 1,000-foot

So you want to be rid of the dolt in the dugout who has had the temerity to: a) not win a trophy for a whole season; or b) lacked sufficient reputation to impress your fellow multimillionaires in the directors' box.

That is why it takes a writer with unusual temerity to come out with a new book on Ronald Reagan at this stage, and to claim that you have a mass of new material on the man and his beliefs.

His self-mythologizing temerity, an airy parallel to the earthy mystique of his contemporary Joseph Beuys, made him a prophetic figure for the Conceptualism that took hold in art in the late nineteen-sixties.

The Blueshirt faithful, spotting a fan who had the temerity to sport an Isles jersey, literally ripped it off his back and set it on fire.