Its audacity was apparent in its characterization of chicken soup: "essence of young fowl with matzo balls".
It's unclear if any of the attacks were coördinated, but their timing, audacity, and apparent strategies — each seemed designed to inspire widespread fear, garner international media attention, and strike at a critical element of the targeted country — suggested political guidance, or at least inspiration, by ISIS.
Morris's audacity was apparent too in the endless pranks his friends recounted: on election night a few years ago, the Jackson sportswriter Rick Cleveland remembered, Morris called the headquarters of the onetime Ku Klux Klan grand dragon David Duke, who was running for governor in Louisiana, and instructed a compliant receptionist to page Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, over the loudspeaker.
The scope and audacity of his crimes and the apparent ease with which he got away with them suggested that the agency's oversight was weak and raised questions about the integrity of the work of other inspectors.
A subplot involving a character called the Thin Man, a mysterious monk and visions inspired by the Book of Revelation remains tantalizingly sketchy, but Lang's visual audacity and thematic ambition are breathtakingly apparent, as is his astonishing sense of scale, which enabled him to swoop from terrifying sublimity to piercing, quiet intimacy with a single cut.
The size of bribes and kickbacks is enormous, the stories of corruption astonishing, and the audacity of corruption's big players ever more apparent.
There is nothing if not audacity about England's selection – that, too, born of the shift in approach which was so apparent during their summer's exploits.
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