Sentence examples for temerity and from inspiring English sources
He was disliked for his "impudence," "presumption," "temerity," and "sacrilege".
"The Preservationist" establishes both its author's temerity and his talent with that kind of observation.
His coworkers refer him to a Certain Important Personage who becomes outraged by Akaky Akakiyevich's temerity and refuses to help.
ʿAbd al-Malik publicly chided him for his temerity and then sent his famous governor al-Ḥajjāj to Arabia.
After writing his own book, Stoner "never thought of it, and of his authorship, without wonder and disbelief at his temerity and the responsibility he had assumed".
Normal service was resumed as Rangers finally made Berwick pay for their temerity and earned themselves a home fourth-round tie against Hibernian on Saturday.
The scale provides scores for four types of impulsivity: audacity and temerity (AeT), cognitive control (CC), future planning (PF) and lack of concentration and persistence (CeP).
Even after last week's unfathomable violence, Huelskamp had the audacity and temerity to declare "It's not a gun problem, it's a people problem".
Those temerities and his disarmingly starchy public mien — he was ever the gent, dressed in suits, with patrician manners and a sepulchral, Missouri-bred and foreign-seasoned voice — assured him a celebrity status that is apt to flare anew whenever another cohort of properly disaffected young readers discovers him.
The Family CLARK--Kenneth B., our Chairman Emeritus, spiritual father and beloved mentor, America's race diagnostician, and pioneer in the pursuit of social justice and an integrated society: full of insight, clarity of purpose, integrity, temerity, charm and wit, stubborn courage, who fought relentlessly to save all children from the damaging effects of race and caste.
But she had, as Johnson saw at once, a core of gentle empathy; she was one of those sprightly, satiric people who go right to the edge and over it, with what he called an "exuberance of flattery and a temerity of censure" — and then always clamber back, apologizing for making one wisecrack too many.
