Turning to Paul Le Guen was bold, imaginative and seemingly unrealistic but demonstrative of a degree of audacity that Murray has often matched with persuasiveness to great effect.
"There's a sort of old-fashioned audacity about it," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
You have to admire the audacity of releasing a song about dealing with haters, when one happens to be one of the least-hated artists in the pop cosmos.
This would learn from the mass appeal of cultural movements like Afrofuturism, take on the knowledge and international clout of the Foresight for Development programme, delivered with the entrepreneurial audacity of the Ampion Venture Bus Africa and Thomas Aquilina's attention to detail.
The tax cut package is a variations of ideas already proposed by Ukip and the Liberal Democrats, but left Labour gasping at "the audacity of David Cameron offering himself as custodian of public finances, and the provider of such unfounded tax cuts".
In hindsight, her vulnerability meant she was the perfect first victim for a serial killer whose audacity would escalate with each strike.
Maybe you should learn to bite your tongue when you're sitting in a New Zealand layby with a policeman at your window, having been pulled over for the third time in a week for going a few miles over the speed limit (and, once, a few miles under), and you have a sneaking suspicion it might be because you're a woman in her early 20s with the audacity to drive a motorhome.
What all this seems to suggest is that, as a society, we are more concerned about, and outraged by, a young woman's audacity in standing up to sexual harassment than we are about the month-long, everyday campaign of verbal abuse she endured on her walk to work.
"Hopefully we will get some benefit in people wanting to do more for [the military]." Said Cooper: "We would never have the audacity to say that this movie is what America needs All we tried to do is portray this man as honestly as possible.
The texture of this speech, the audacity of its hope, mattered more than any of its component parts.
The scale and audacity of a raid on the heart of London's jewellery trade became clear on Wednesday as Scotland Yard revealed that a gang had broken into as many as 70 safe-deposit boxes containing jewellery and valuables, much of their cache uninsured.
