Sentence examples for temerity for from inspiring English sources

Ballet Memphis is something of a little engine that could, to perhaps sum up the imaginative grit of Dorothy Gunther Pugh, who has presided over the group with equal dashes of elegance and temerity for 20 years.

There will of course be many differing reactions to these latest statistics; and also, for some, to my temerity for having dared to mention Israel in the same breath.

All but forgotten for decades, partly on account of their chilling resemblance to Nazi-approved styles of heroic nudes, they became talismans of temerity for neo-expressionists in the nineteen-eighties.

Of course politicians crazy enough to tell bleak truths about the aging process of the American empire have not been celebrated for their refreshing candor so much as buried for the temerity of their pessimism, however smart.

Mixed communities are cohesive and more equal communities: punishing working people for the temerity of living in social housing sows division and is plain unfair.

Now it is mulling taking the risk of another attempt by sea.This more aggressive Chinese approach is part of China's punishment of the Philippines for the temerity of its small, upstart neighbour (population, some 105m) in challenging it under UNCLOS.

If Fry were a civilian he would, St Sebastian style, already be skewered to death with a million poison pens full of green ink for the temerity of thinking that language does and must change, but as he is a well-known actor, TV presenter, Wodehousian and Wildean he will probably get away with it.

She was criticised in the media as grasping and disrespectful; for having the temerity to fight for compensation.

Why, we even think we can leave one of our few world-class players out for having the temerity to play for an overseas club!

He also got a lot of stick from GPs for having the temerity to ask for the return of the responsibility of out-of-hours service to GPs.

The most memorable speech came from Sarah Palin, who suggested that Karl Rove be dispatched back to Texas for having the temerity to call for some of the party's loonier candidates to be vetted a mite more closely.