Sentence examples for moxie from inspiring English sources

We want to believe that individual moxie matters, that a person's creativity, effort, and intelligence will lead to economic success.

He did something similar with "Hairspray" (2007), and in neither case can we accuse him of lacking moxie or dodging his obligations.

I have not had the moxie even to think of approaching him.

She's the perennial émigrée in show business, the tough Jewish girl from the sticks who continues to charm the Gentiles with her moxie and her anxiety; no matter how big she gets, she reassures us, her background, her religion, will keep her small.

Does "2001" suggest that there's an incommensurable gap between those who experience outer space and those who remain on the ground — or simply between those with the intelligence and moxie to fulfill great missions and the run of humanity's mill?

Tammaro's victims often came to see him as a test administered by Manhattan itself, an appraisal of their moxie.

Bly was talented and undeniably a celebrity, but she also owed part of her success to fortunate timing: her moxie was in concert with both the women's-suffrage movement and the burgeoning of populist journalism.

For a while, Fierstein was able to win us over with his moxie and his raspy voice, but now one feels merely puzzled by the fact that he seems to equate gayness with shtick.

He spent much of his time in the past fifteen years on a charitable venture that required as much tact as moxie — integrating the North Shore Health System and Long Island Jewish Medical Center into a single enterprise that now includes fifteen hospitals.

She's merely cute, her moxie forced; her performance makes one long for the young Lindsay Lohan's smartly focussed energy.

Experienced Open-goers of all types have long known, however, that the best view of Rafael Nadal, available to anyone with a grounds pass and a little moxie, was on the tournament's practice courts: there, where the players warm up, all that separated fans from the athletes was a chain-link fence and a wall of bushes.