But more truthfully, none of this would have happened - in this way - if Wright had not acted so brazenly, at that moment in time.
Both Iran and its proxies including Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza might act even more brazenly than they do now.
We are dishonored by the House Republican "stimulus" bill, a brazenly selfish act in a time of war.
Patiently respond that, for Ms. Cyrus, twerking is a brazenly cynical act of cultural appropriation being passed off as a rebellious reclamation of her sexuality after a childhood in the Disneyfied spotlight, but, in the end, who are we really to judge?
Eight current and former New York police officers were arrested on Tuesday and charged in federal court with accepting thousands of dollars in cash to drive a caravan of firearms into the state, an act of corruption that brazenly defied the city's strenuous efforts to get illegal guns off the streets.
Each morning I, like the country as a whole, participate in a brazenly self-contradicting act – slugging a strong morning java to get me wound up like a coiled spring for the working day ahead, having adulterated it with great glugs of hot milk, as if planning to immediately pull on striped pyjamas, curl up in a warm maternal bosom and go to sleep.
While the state has done little to punish these acts, various militant organizations have brazenly claimed credit for them.
They damaged hundreds of genetically modified (GM) wheat plants, brazenly photographing themselves in the act.
It's a tale of final-act underdog triumph that's every bit as satisfying as the most brazenly audience-pleasing scripted drama.
Grace Jones has launched a scathing attack on contemporary pop acts who are wanton to trends and have brazenly stolen her aesthetic, saying: "I cannot be like them – except to the extent that they are already being like me".
