Sentence examples for level of temerity from inspiring English sources

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu displayed an appalling level of temerity when, during the U.N. General Assembly meeting that ended Oct. 1, he waded into American domestic politics and suggested President Barack Obama could do more to support Israel.

May had the temerity to say something no previous Tory home secretary had admitted: that police numbers had very little to do with the level of crime.

And even when you understand the generally sophomoric maturity level of much of the public discourse about sports, it was still hard not to flinch at the ugly side of Linsanity that poked out from a dark hole after the Knicks and their new-sensation point guard Jeremy Lin had the temerity to lose a game last Friday.

But even if an entrepreneur brings the right levels of passion, precision, talent, and temerity, these characteristics count for little unless they're put to work executing the right business model.

Americans, Tocqueville wrote, "make a virtue of commercial temerity".

As a figure of freedom, temerity, and lyrical prophecy, Smithson stirs nostalgia among artists and others in the art world, which, for all its wealth and popularity, feels increasingly constricted, faltering, and prosaic.

After a drink or two, such men maintain, they find themselves more inclined than usual to attempt original patterns in improvisation, and the results of their heightened temerity, in the opinion of many knowledgeable observers, are often of arresting quality.

Nevertheless, the temerity of Woolf's version of "Why War?" does not make her revulsion against war any less conventional in its rhetoric, and in its summations, rich in repeated phrases.

The temerity of this request has made the Kremlin incandescent.

Although he stammered slightly, he spoke with his customary conviction, seeming disturbed only by the temerity of the accusation.

With careers having become so much more precarious, the temerity of originality is all the more impressive.