Cablevision's Newsday bid had a touch of audacity to it, coming as it did after offers from two dyed-in-the-ink newspapermen: Mr. Murdoch, whose News Corporation owns The New York Post, and Mortimer B. Zuckerman, owner of The Daily News.
Brennan, now 57, is a swindler of a recognizable type: totally unscrupulous, with the nerve and audacity of a second-story man, but also with a touch of class that has always given him friends in high places.
Voluntary amnesia with a touch of lethargy.
Bypassed, admitted with a touch of reluctance.
I can't help but feel grudging admiration for their audacity and, when I think back to my own teenage years, a touch of sympathy.
There was a touch of nostalgia this past week up on the Heights at Boston College when the Athletic Director, Gene DeFilippo, fired his successful football coach and old friend, Jeff Jagodzinski, for having the audacity to interview for the head coaching position with the New York/New Jersey Jets.
Like Achebe, Adichie is a masterful storyteller, with a rare combination of audacity and empathy.
This technique in conjunction with the integration of mathematical symbols allowed them to make more declarative statements with a great sense of audacity.
Turning to Paul Le Guen was bold, imaginative and seemingly unrealistic but demonstrative of a degree of audacity that Murray has often matched with persuasiveness to great effect.
So what is it that we with a kind of thoughtful audacity can warrant through the year 2001?
Author, speaker, facilitator...all with a dash of "mild audacity".
