Sentence examples for audacity by from inspiring English sources

The CDU was being punished for an unpopular policy devised and articulated, with uncharacteristic audacity, by its leader.

The young Austen signals her audacity by turning the figure of the predatory male seducer into a highly unconventional (and middle-aged) seductress.

Given his reputation and reach, the attack on his "soldiers" during a boxing weigh-in at a north Dublin hotel last Friday appears to have been an act of astonishing audacity by his main rival, Gerry "The Monk Hutchh.

Preferred to Ollie Rayner to bat at seven and bowl off-spin, it has been a decent return to the side for Stirling, whose own strokeplay was trumped in its audacity by Tim Murtagh.

A front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination might benefit from a sit-down with the title character of "Richard III," or the version of him that is being embodied with all-conquering audacity by Kevin Spacey at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

He wasn't entirely sensible: asked about Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, he told Chuck Todd, on "Meet the Press," "I never thought the President should have sent it up" — adopting the position that, somehow, Obama, twice elected and with a year left in his term, had shown unwarranted audacity by doing his job.

His first book was characterized not by audacity but by a highly polished literary language: "For who could bear such beauty under the sky? / I would have held her loveliness in air".

In "The Age of Innocence," she nods to the future development of Manhattan real estate with a sidelong reference to the pioneering spirit of Mrs. Manson Mingott, who "put the crowning touch to her audacities by building a large house of cream-colored stone … in an inaccessible wilderness near the Central Park".

We were made queasy by the whole affair — not just by Trump's audacity but by how, every time he does something like this, a game follows of trying to prove the dignity of black and brown people by associating them with accomplishment and richesse.

This, I think, is the underlying engine of David's lament — the desire to see popular filmmaking that wrestles with political history on the wing with the kind of grand-scale audacity shown by Coppola, or by Chaplin with "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator".

At first Machiavelli admits that fortune rules half of men's lives, but then, in an infamous metaphor, he compares fortune to a woman who lets herself be won more by the impetuous and the young, "who command her with more audacity," than by those who proceed cautiously.