Sentence examples for had the effrontery from inspiring English sources

Instead West Brom had the effrontery to equalise – through none other than Yacob.

It was all because he had the effrontery to embarrass the United States government.

"Of course, of course," Mr. Ruiz said from Paris when I had the effrontery to phone him with the question.

Some time later, when I reminded him of his promise, he was deeply offended that I'd had the effrontery to bring it up.

The other factor is that governments have become more vindictive in their pursuit of those who have had the effrontery to tell the truth about their activities.

Worse, their evictors were not the familiar bogeys of wealth and privilege, but an oppressed underclass that had the effrontery to refer to a "liberal establishment elite".

But the scientific establishment sided with Dr. Waksman, scolding Dr. Schatz for having the effrontery to challenge his professor.

As for Tibet, there are rumours that those ridiculous Buddhist monks may have the effrontery to smuggle themselves into Beijing, then set themselves on fire.

In Funny Games (1997), Michael Haneke makes sure that the bourgeois family who have the effrontery to like opera get their brutal comeuppance.

But neither has the effrontery and the sheer outrageousness of this extraordinary machine-tooled piece of provocation from veteran yakuza director Kinji Fukasaku.

In a phone interview, Mr. Irwin said he was surprised that LinkedIn "would have the effrontery to ask for a professional service for free".