It is one of the most audacious marketing pitches ever deployed.
How can you be expected to compose your blisteringly sad, raucously funny, illuminating, redemptive, pitch-perfect, audacious, life-affirming, semi-autobiographical tour de force when all you can hear is the grinding of espresso beans and the hissing of milk being steamed?
The prime minister's pitch is an audacious attempt to steal Labour's image as the party of the workers while it is in disarray following its defeat under leader Ed Miliband.
The truth of her truth, though, proves to be something altogether more inspired and more audacious: before delivering her sales pitch, she boldly creates a situation, even a relationship, that renders her customer receptive to hearing the truth.
Giving fans a taste of what's to come will be Arsenal, who've already entertained off the pitch with an audacious bid for talented striker and bitey boy Luis Suárez.
Garnett didn't pitch a fit when the Timberwolves' owner, Glen Taylor, rebuffed audacious financial demands by Sprewell and Cassell last season.
Gibson and other pitchers who practiced the art of pitching intimidation did not take kindly to such audacious demonstrations.
These audacious and expensive moves gave baseball fans cause to imagine the best pitching staff of this time, perhaps matching great staffs of other ages.
Instead of the usual pitch to sell HCA some more hospitals, the bankers had a more audacious proposal: Assemble a group of private investors to acquire the company for more than $30 billion.
The most audacious sequence is set in a bar, where the travelling salesmen's latest desultory pitch is interrupted by the army of King Charles XII of Sweden as it marches past to invade Russia.
