He was at his best when he acted with audacity and tenacity, as in his quest for an Iran deal, a climate change agreement and an affordable health law.
In confronting this difficulty, Mr. Berlusconi has acted with typical audacity: This week, he suggested he could give Mr. Veltroni's new Democratic Party control of one of the parliamentary houses — if the center-left president, Giorgio Napolitano, stepped down.
The day before the event, Heschel sent the president a telegram about civil rights, asking him to declare the nation's racial inequality a "state of moral emergency" and to act with "high moral grandeur and spiritual audacity".
Again it combined instinct with audacity.
Mostly, they just brim with audacity and are on a first-name basis with social media.
Whether we have architects with audacity and vision and genius to match Albert and Paxton we will soon know.
The breakthrough at Vicksburg, a mysterious act of audacity even in Chernow's account, becomes less mysterious if one reads Grant's anti-dramatic account of it: the Navy boats had been reinforced with water-soaked bales to reduce the chances of cannonballs starting fires, and, anyway, the experiment of running the batteries had been tried before.
Nussbaum's sweeping certitudes make up with audacity what they lack in empirical rigor.
But it zings with audacity.
"I also datamoshed footage of the Seine River shore in Paris, applying sonification with Audacity.
