Sentence examples for true audacity from inspiring English sources

Barak Obama's election represents a true "audacity of hope" to everyone.

True audacity, as Jean Cocteau once said, is the trick of knowing how far you can go in going too far.

After discovering the pleasures of marijuana and lusting after Laura Fontanet, a widely admired cheerleader, a nearsighted boy named Martin Lowell, who is the institute's top student, resolves to explore some of life's less studious pursuits, and commits his first "act of true audacity" by volunteering his parents' vacant home in Caracol Beach for a boisterous bacchanal.

According to Ursula King of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Bristol, Dave Pruett's Reason and Wonder (Praeger, 2012) "opens up [an expansive worldview] of true audacity and grandeur that will change your thinking forever".

Dispiriting because as exemplars of true audacity, they have few imitators today either in Western Europe or America, where banks are trying to secure their profits by destroying social welfare regimes and politicians are at most anxious onlookers if not mere puppets of the banks.

Recycling some material from her justifiably popular and bilious winter performances at Joe's Pub, she also has the true jester's audacity to spin timely humor out of the Don Imus uproar, sing nastily about Upper West Side women and speculate on the joys of quaffing the contents of the drain of a George Foreman grill.

For more than three decades, NASA defied all reasonable odds as it grew into a multibillion-dollar bureaucracy with tens of thousands of managers, scientists, engineers and technicians, yet somehow remained true to the intoxicating audacity and technical mastery that gave it life.

One of his favorite historical artists is Gustave Courbet, who, when you think about it, was less a traditional painter than a performer of painting, whose true subject was his own audacity.

If Lee possessed the "true killer instinct," a ruthless audacity in battle second to none, Winik adds at once that there was also "a surprising and decidedly unusual feminine side to him: a sweetness... a tenderness unthinkable in other great fighting men".

"But the movie's truer meaning is in the audacity of its filmmaking".

Slimane is scandalising the Paris fashion world with his audacity – and in doing so, staying true to the codes of the house.