Sentence examples for it takes audacity from inspiring English sources

It takes audacity to adapt James Joyce's "Ulysses" for the stage.

It takes audacity for a young American to claim such a weighty text, but Ms. Correia succeeded, using the song to help define her own talent.

In this case, however, humility may hide behind the mask of hubris: it takes audacity to wrap the gilded name of Gatsby around your own shoulders and hope to wear it with grace.

It takes audacity and courage to call it what it is.

Undoubtedly, every society's unique expectations sometimes force us to conform to some certain standard; however, it takes great resolve to choose to acknowledge a weakness and harness it to become a strength - it takes audacity to see flaws and accept their existence.

It took audacity to take comfort food to trendy TriBeCa 12 years ago, as Lisa Hall, left above, and Ann Nickinson, right, did when they opened the gingham-trimmed Kitchenette, with its meat loaf, corn bread and old-fashioned layer cakes.

Cutting an Hermès Birkin bag in half takes audacity, but if anyone can do it and get away with it, it's Jean Paul Gaultier.

Our schoolmarm-like rebuke of China over its assertion of regional hegemony takes audacity to a new level.

Laying groundwork to confront homophobic slurs and any other hatred from coaches, fans or athletes takes audacity, and the N.H.L. is leading the way.

Julian Alonzo, formerly the executive chef at Cafe Centro, obviously took one look at the playing field and decided that it would take audacity to win the day.

Regardless of the mess Bush and Bernie and the wizards of Wall Street have left us with, it's going to take audacity, the good kind, for us to get out of it.