Sentence examples for effrontery in from inspiring English sources

So will women who choose not to have children regret their effrontery in defying the whole history of the human race?

Once he would look another performer in the eye only when a scene was being stolen; he is tickled and stunned by Bronson Pinchot's effrontery in purloining their scene together in "Beverly Hills Cop".

Cooper was a popular writer, and this, to Poe, was a good sign that he was a bad one: "The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery — in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks".

They are again filled with Groucho's verbal effrontery (in lines such as "Remember, men, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did!") and surreal sight gags such as a live, barking dog that emerges from a doghouse tattooed on Harpo's chest.

The most devastating criticism of the nuclear "disarmament" deal struck with Kim Jong Il's North Korea this week by America, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia is that it rewards an appalling dictator's serial nuclear effrontery in ways that will only encourage Iran's nuclear-charged mullahs and other bomb-seekers in their ambitions.

The quartet of powers responsible for it has become a spent force having contributed to a breakdown in Palestinian civil and political order by imposing a stranglehold on the economy by way of punishment for the Palestinians' effrontery in electing a Hamas government.

US Republicans in particular could not bear the effrontery implicit in having a Communist-run entity on their doorstep.

Mr. Frears, speaking by telephone from his London home, was responding to the suggestion that there might be, let's say, a certain effrontery involved in the creation of his most recent picture, "Chéri" (opening Friday).

He has also, as Moisés Naím, a former Venezuelan minister who now edits Foreign Policy, points out in his introduction to this biography, bracketed himself with Fidel Castro as one of the very few from the region to have become a household name.He has achieved this partly through sheer verbal effrontery, as in his badmouthing of George Bush.

For all those who incorrectly call themselves "sportsman," I doubt very seriously that they would so brazenly with gall and effrontery partake in this one-sided affair if both the coyotes and wolves could shoot back.

In his effrontery, Bertolucci put his abuse in front of the camera and like so many men of that era, maintains a tacit claim of permissive liberation and declines to see what was wrong.