How To Use Audacity In A Sentence

After a long flight, all you can do is stumble around its pathways and cactus gardens, marvelling at the sheer audacity of it all. Times, Sunday Times
After a long flight, all you can do is stumble around its pathways and cactus gardens, marvelling at the sheer audacity of it all. Times, Sunday Times
The only difference between audacity and recklessness is whether or not you win, and in this case a clever Union officer tricked Lee into making an audacious move that ultimately became a reckless endeavour. A Sorrowful Tale of High Velocity
I'm just blown away by the audacity the team has to toss around the word "musculoskeletal" and expect us to go along with it. WNYMedia
The audacity of some people. chris Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 07: 56 PM EST the cute gay guy and the beefcake are the only reasons that i'm watching this season. the closeted mormon just might be the reason i stop watching before the season ends Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch

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They couldn't believe that Josh had the audacity to say that in front of the boss, but he didn't care.
A mere chit of a girl, the daughter of her maid servant, who was wearing her daughters’ hand me downs had the audacity to talk back?
Even when her mother had come out and ranted about his rudeness and audacity, she stood stock-still.
The Cuban-born player then had the audacity to claim in a tell-all book that most professional baseballs players are on the juice.
When illness had the audacity to attack a Drumtochty man, it was described as a "whup," and was treated by the men with a fine negligence. A Doctor of the Old School — Complete
The final play of rugby was breathtaking in its audacity.
The sheer audacity of the man took my breath away.
The Baroness (as she was known after her marriage to a shifty nobleman) and her friends worshipped novelty, inappropriateness, audacity, not piously but with ferocious abandon.
It may be true that, according to Freddoso, Obama dismissed the slogan “Yes we can” as “vapid and mindless” when it was first proposed to him, in 2004, but he liked it well enough in 2008, and then came the null emptiness of the phrase — the audacity of hope — that he annexed from a windy sermon by Jeremiah Wright. Cool Cat
In a report that for audacity borders on the incredible, the Premiership damned the FA for the ills that are now besetting the game.
With Curt Schilling carrying a perfect game with one out in the eighth inning, Davis had the audacity to drop down a bunt, which he beat out for a single.
In the morning a cataphract from Ardor had the audacity to stare at Sire Galan as he marched along. Wildfire
The best entrepreneurs have the right balance of inner certainty and self-deprecation to cope with problems and not lose their audacity and ambition. Times, Sunday Times
His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity. Rob Roy
Blearily I pulled on my dressing gown and groped my way to the front door, making ready to have a go at somebody for having the audacity to come a-calling so early on a Sunday morning, but there was nobody there.
One of the bars even had the audacity to display a trading certificate in the place where the licence should have been placed.
Less practical surely than the fur coat, -- more amusing, certainly, than encyclopedias, -- the funny "false faces" grinned up at her with a curiously excitative audacity. Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
I was immediately struck by the chutzpah of Sullivan's statement -- both because of its erroneousness and because he had the audacity to make it. David Kaufman: Co-Opted: Marriage Equality's Civil Rights Rip-Off
Sky - diving takes both audacity and skill.
On the basis of these three performances, we might as well declare this her year -- the former British ambassadrix of dramatic audacity and risqué risk-taking somehow reaching the pinnacle of her career by playing three of the most painfully zipped-up women you're likely to find fascinating. Archive 2006-11-12
It was sheer audacity from a man aged 41 years and 147 days and yet still thriving in international cricket. The Sun
That is provided no-one had the audacity to doubt the spiel by asking questions, to which the lad had no answers.
Still, it's far from insubstantial, and at its gutsiest is a work of intelligence and audacity. Times, Sunday Times
He had the audacity to tell me I was too fat.
Audacity often brought rewards; self-abasement seldom did. Red dust
In the Rabourdin bureau was a clerk who played the man of courage and audacity, professed the opinions of the Left centre, and rebelled against the tyrannies of Baudoyer as exercised upon what he called the unhappy slaves of that office. Bureaucracy
These days truck drivers have the audacity to drive through a town or city with passengers perching on the cargo even when they are aware it is illegal.
Breathing hard with excitement he turned and laid his back against the panels, trembling in every muscle, terrified by the result of his impulsive audacity, thunder-struck by a lightning-like foreglimpse of its possible consequences. The Black Bag
Due to the boldfaced audacity of all involved, his honor mandates no sentence.
I am not a sneakish fellow, nor a coward; only -- it's a pity -- I lack audacity. Botchan (Master Darling)
I sigh at his audacity, buttering a piece of toast.
Out of devilment, Ferguson then had the audacity to offer a four-to-one bet that Larsson would not score against his team.
The audacity of it boggles the mind.
What is more frightening is that prowlers can have the audacity to attack a home around 10: 00 hours and walk away untouched.
Indeed, the milder manners of the patrician body were ill suited to resist this ermined demagogue, whose motto through life was _audacity, again audacity, and always audacity_. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
The twelfth century had the audacity of its passions, and Wagner at times talks almost plain twelfth century language. — Unlikely music critic of the day (literally)
The sheer audacity of this album, its unabashed confidence and sense of drama is jaw dropping.
I carry that inculcation to audacity as do many others who were lucky to have known Pat. Richard Walden: When a Great Teacher Dies... and Lives On
And some little pipsqueak of a lawyer somewhere has had the audacity to question this award.
After a long flight, all you can do is stumble around its pathways and cactus gardens, marvelling at the sheer audacity of it all. Times, Sunday Times
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Smooth water, sandy coves, and shelfy landings tempted comfortable jobs; and any man owning a boat that would carry a sail as big as a shawl might smuggle, with heed of the weather, and audacity. Mary Anerley
Our President had the audacity to say we are not prisoners of fate in acceptance of the Jokebell peace prize, i beg to differ i am a prisoner of fate. Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize
But Dan had had the audacity to simply wander into my life and rearrange it to suit him, and what he wanted.
Sky - diving takes both audacity and skill.
In the same way, the thing that brought me to Paulo was not any particular book but the sheer audacity of the tour. Times, Sunday Times
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The import of his cheating goes beyond his own life and chosen sport because of his arrogance and sheer audacity. Times, Sunday Times
The sheer audacity and scope of the Manhattan Project remain impressive today.
Cassata, a bombe filled with hazelnut crème, has the audacity to combine chocolate with ricotta cheese and turns out bizarrely addictive.
After giving a somewhat amused snort at my audacity, he asked me what it was I wanted to know.
Julia raised her brows, hoping she had a natural talent for being a fibster, for it would take audacity to pull the wool over Sophie's eyes.
The boy had the audacity to lie to him, straight in his face for a second time.
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Like her books, her life story must be read in a historical context to appreciate its richness, its disregard for convention, its audacity.
Yet for the sheer visual audacity and wit, the Echt Amerikan sense of the didactic effortlessly intermingled with pleasure (We’re gonna expose you to some highbrow music, sonny, but you’ll have fun anyway), and the move away from the heavy Germanic style of earlier features into a cleaner, more open sense of space and horizon and character (physiognomy is destiny, except when hippos dance!) it remains my favorite feature-length release. A Ceramic Fantasia : Scrubbles.net
He scored four times and thrilled the footballing world with his audacity, his fearlessness, his youth.
When the wife lifts high the blushless front and brazens out her guilt; when the child, with loud voice, throws off all control and makes boast of disobedience, -- man revolts at the audacity; his spirit arms against his wrong: its face, at least, is bare; the blow, if sacrilegious, is direct. Lucretia — Volume 02
Its creative and artistic audacity is paralleled only by the sheer exuberance with which creators Kevin and Kerry Conran spin their tale. Blog De Ganz | Archive | January
Though he does not succeed in the delineation of the great and grand passions of our nature, he is very successful in the sphere of its humane and tender sentiments; and though open to criticism for the jaunty audacity with which he coins dainty sweetnesses of expression rejected by all dictionaries, and for an occasional pertness in asserting opinions of doubtful truth, he is so lovable a creature that we pardon his literary foibles as we would pardon the personal foibles of a charming companion and friend. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
Y'see, these country bumpkins from Ontario had the audacity and nerve to cover part one of Pink Floyd's classic The Wall.
I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance!
The sheer audacity and disdain for privacy and civil liberties was amazing.
And this Minister has the audacity and temerity to try to say that that is listening to the people.
The invaders, pushed and pommelled by dint of such audacity and hard hitting, were cooped up like sheep into narrower and narrower space. Hellenica
'hallucinated' Magdalens, conducting grand picnics in that 'charming' climate, and making life a May day, is not the world's mighty Deliverer; and his miracle-mongering demagogue, claiming to be the Son of David in lying genealogies, and the Son of God in blasphemous audacity, is not the world's Teacher of all Truth and Righteousness. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
Yet the audacity of the writing, coupled with the crackling energy of the acting, makes this provocative exhibition well worth a visit. Times, Sunday Times
When the narrative is able to be resumed one finds that Wenamon has set sail from the city, and has travelled along the coast to the proud city of Tyre, where he arrived one afternoon penniless and letterless, having now nothing left but the little Amon-of-the-Road and his own audacity. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
In our school, the popular crowd did just as many drugs as the ones they called the stoners, and drank more than any other group, and yet still found the audacity to lord over everyone.
Now this city has become a conservatory of audacity, a museum of successful liberations, a tomb for 300,000 activists, escapees from the merry apocalypse of the sixties — the proof, too, that perhaps the time has come in America to choose between reality and commemoration, between living and surviving. Road Trip: Part II
There are times when you run out of words to describe the actions of local politicians - you are sometimes left gobsmacked by the sheer audacity of their decisions.
The man is a charmer, which is not a bad thing to be if you're going to have the audacity to lead hundreds of hippies into the Tennessee woods. Sex, Drugs, and Soybeans
In a review that aspires to be no more than a compatibility assessment for populists it basically translates to “smarty-pants”, stands as a marker of a philistine grudge against the audacity of ambition. Ethics and Enthusiasm
Some of the women were indignant that I had the audacity to go on to their patch - it was their territory and I was seen as the intruder.
And they will the sooner set upon you, by reason of your comelinesse and audacity, in that you are not afeared at any time to walke in the streets. The Golden Asse
I call this second technique Sir Ian Blair style reassurance Policing; say something stupid about how safe an area is wont be supported by anyone and retreat to their office before anyone recovers their wits from the sheer audacity of the comment to reply. Every Cloud « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
For the sheer ambition and audacity of this venture, he deserves to be congratulated.
First she betrayed him, then she had the audacity to show up and rescue him.
This wicked young man (relying on Ahadee's protection) whilst the ceremonies were preparing at Xavier, to invest his brother with the regal dignity, had the audacity to murder him there, and the address to be appointed king in his place; and closed his atchievement, by devouring the heart of his unfortunate brother; which last act of unnatural barbarity was the proof required by Ahadee, of unlimited devotion to his commands. Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ah�dee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney. To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade
He did not expect his readers literally to become highwaymen, or even lady-killers; but he did expect them to identify with his courage, audacity and sangfroid.
The freshness of the form in both plays is more than matched by the daring freshness and audacity of the content.
The book is anodd combination of audacity andintense conservatism.
But I also feel a little awestruck at the artfulness and audacity of it all.
WILLIAM" TENN U6131 OF MEN AND MONSTERS'the first full-length science fiction novel to appear by this author-a clear-eyed tribute to the audacity, shrewdness, stupidity, courage, and ultimate ineradicability of the human pest U6132 THE SQUARE ROOT OF MAN-containing some of the earliest Term. Expedition to Earth
And it's ten times worse if somebody learns that I've got a website and has the sheer audacity to actually ask for the URL.
There is no passion, no audacity and no commitment at all evidenced in this film.
Frank has swopped his BMW from the first film, for a beautiful Audi which helps him do some senior-class acrobatics which should leave you clapping your hands in admiration at the audacity to even attempt anything as absurd.
She then had the audacity to allege that I had exaggerated the truth in order to win a government grant of 750,000 to improve road safety.
This idiot and his team of oafs had the audacity to patronize and laugh at Eugene last night.
And they have the audacity to clothe themselves in the language of morality.
It is the audacity with which they conduct themselves, their churlishness, which is so intolerable. Why Is The Taliban Being Imposed On Tribal Areas?
What gripped you most as you watched him was his sheer audacity.
Once again he was lambasted and mocked when he had the audacity to put forward a logical explanation.
he had the audacity to question my decision
His physical beauty and the beauty of his play fused with all of his other qualities - his audacity, his bravery, his ambition - into a matchless whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Sometimes, you just have to step back and admire the sheer audacity of these guys.
His early, all-male Hamlet, complete with semi-naked gravediggers, had the newspapers, both tabloid and broadsheet, fulminating at his audacity.
The tree is typically Carioca in its brashness and audacity, but despite the city's fondness for it, Rio is not famed for its yuletide.
I admire their audacity, but their chutzpah and sense of priorities scare me. Times, Sunday Times
Mary Frances Bragiel, is the word audacity too harsh? CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2007
Dacier once established became striking to glaringness -- a proof of her ability, and more of her audacity; still more of her intention to flatter him up to his perdition. Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3
I have the audacity to believe all my peeves are rational, but will justify naming one of those because there's bound to be someone who thinks otherwise.
That he had the audacity to dictate what American adults could and could not see was sickening.
He came to dominate it by shrewdness, audacity and the huge force and charm of his personality.
Anyone who has the audacity to attempt it, particularly with regard to the significant effects of the policies of the current incumbants of the Whitehouse and Number 10, can expect to be labelled indulgent apologists. No Apology For Strawmen
They even had the audacity to complain that the course wasn't tough enough.
I admire your audacity.
He was a man's man, a hard-drinking, argumentative, creative, quick-tempered, irascible, huggy bear of a gent, Texas big in his concepts and his audacity, appropriate for a guy named Texas.
I have seen swallows do this and I marvel at their audacity.
Mandy had the utter audacity to roll her eyes coyly at Matthew.
Then he burst out laughing, and embraced the great designer, congratulating him on his audacity and courage.
What Monet did was to encourage a new type of audacity and a brand-new type in truth, when no one had up to then attempted to see nature as prismatical under the direct influence of the solar rays. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
Yet, in her mouth, English was a new and beautiful language, softly limpid, with an audacity of phrase and tellingness of expression that conveyed subtleties and nuances as unambiguous and direct as they were unexpected from one of such childlikeness and simplicity. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
The intricacy of the music and the audacity of the joint improvisations take the explorations close to the edge, with changes of tempo and harmonies miraculously reaching resolution.
Borkman a prominent example of the ninteenth century type of criminous speculator, in whom the vastness of view and the splendidly altruistic audacity present themselves as elements which render it exceedingly difficult to say how far the malefactor is morally responsible for his crime. Henrik Ibsen
We're going to laugh at your presumption and ego and effrontery and audacity. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
During this sitting there were little skirmishes between the family and the painter, who had the audacity to call pere Vervelle witty. Pierre Grassou
However, many Yiddish words have entered mainstream English, mainly, but not exclusively, in the United States - "shlep" (to carry or drag a load), "chutzpah" (audacity), "kvetch" (to whine, complain), "nebbish" (a simpleton, a weakling) being just a few. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
They levy marketeers and traders all sorts of fees and have audacity to even allocate market stalls or cause expansions of these utilities without the consent of the council.
Readers may differ on whether this combination of Chick Lit and techno-thriller succeeds, but it's hard not to admire the audacity of the experiment.
Hujjat, another champion of conspicuous audacity, of unsubduable will, of remarkable originality and vehement zeal, was being, swiftly and inevitably, drawn into the fiery furnace whose flames had already enveloped Zanján and its environs. God Passes By
Yet lest you find in this general combination of circumstances some sinister threat of audacity, let me conventionalize the story at once by opening it at that most conventional of all conventional Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs
The terrorist acts that day were breathtaking in their murderous audacity.
depose" him; because his oath had the audacity to plot his fall; because his plighted word conspired against him. Napoleon the Little
Arachne, a most industrious needleworker, had the audacity to contest against Pallas, the goddess of the art of weaving. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them
He was annoyed at my audacity, but at least he was honest.
So one network out of all of them has the audacity not to fall in adoration at his feet. Obama takes aim at Fox News
That's typical of this show 's audacity and exuberance. Times, Sunday Times
In a report that for audacity borders on the incredible, the Premiership damned the FA for the ills that are now besetting the game.
But the audacity practiced by Democrats and Republicans in raising and spending campaign money in this campaign was unprecedented.
I couldn't believe this guy had the audacity to do something like this in the middle of the day!
Only now has the sheer scale and audacity of the operation become clear.
A gentleman upbraids his servant: is it true, he asks him, that you have had the audacity to spread around the idea that your master is stingy?
It's audacity versus achievability," says Will Pomerantz, the foundation's space prize director. Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon
He can demolish bowling with a mixture of power, timing, placement and sheer audacity. The Sun
Then — suddenly, shockingly — it transforms into “The Shining” meets Evil Dead with green politics, torture porn and a fair amount of Lynchian abstractions … Gripped by the calculation of the design, I think I loved it, but might have been blindsighted by the sheer audacity of its twisted conception. Is ANTICHRIST Art? | Obsessed With Film
The archduke was a man of high-soaring ideas, chivalrous, brave even to the point of audacity, full of expedients and never daunted by failure, but he was deficient in stability of character, and always hampered throughout his life by lack of funds. History of Holland
The splendour and the sordor is side by side, the audacity and the grubbiness, the pathos and bathos.
But the film is also notable for capturing the sheer energetic audacity of Mick Jagger's persona.
Overall sound seems better – perhaps the mpeg encoding settings in hijack are better than audacity. EGC Clambake For August 29, 2006
Just as you marvel at the ingenuity of the filmmaking, you laugh at the sheer audacity of it all.
At independence, the army of the Congo, known as the Force Publique, was officered by the Belgians and Lumumba had the audacity to support its ‘Congolisation’.
This idiot and his team of oafs had the audacity to patronize and laugh at Eugene last night.
I can't believe that person actually had the audacity to say something like that.
The sheer audacity to pull it off is what I loved. The Sun
Sky - diving takes both audacity and skill.
I simply couldn't believe the audacity, the brazenness of it.
The audacity and arrogance of that move has not been lost on the people of New Zealand.
These selfish ungrateful wretches not only had the audacity to return Howard but compounded their sin by giving him a seemingly compliant Senate.
The rewrite came and it was worse than the first version, a tactic I found common to almost all male writers whose genius I had the audacity to second-guess. Roseanne Archy
But what it lacks in brevity, this report makes up for in audacity. Times, Sunday Times
Audacity seems to refer to the assailing of others. The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas
The president of the Republic oscillated between a certain audacity and a prudent realism.
The president I believe is familiar with the word audacity," he said. Democrats Still Face Jobs Pressure
It's like Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope", but McCain was clever and appended "- lessness" on the end of "Hope"! McCain Lampoons Obama: "Audacity Of Hopelessness"
While she was being tried, she had the audacity to laugh at questions presented to her.
The audience sat in a stunned silence, their mouths agape at Cohen's audacity.
Stacey later told police he had no recollection of how he came by the injury and he could not believe their audacity in arresting him.
Someone has the audacity to not fall into goose-step with the Obama supporters and his is "dumb. More North Carolina superdelegates weigh in
Why my parents had the audacity to hope. Christianity Today
Ivy found herself in a miserable cubbyhole disguised as a room that she suddenly realized she would be sharing with that monster who had the audacity to think himself her husband.
It was the sheer audacity of a counter-attack beginning five yards from the French line that was impressive. Times, Sunday Times
She doesn't ever give a darn about anyone else's "difficulties" so it's ridiculous she has the audacity to use that excuse, but even more strange is the fact she makes over $100,000 and has been gainfully employed the entire time of her loan. City of Aurora | More Layoffs Announced (Sorta), 2010 Budget, SuperTuesday Preview
Henson even had the audacity to try and drop a goal from two metres inside his own 10m line, but the ball sailed narrowly wide.
It was an even bigger surprise that he actually had the audacity to call security.
Modi may have fumed at the audacity of a woman who could stand out in public and point a finger at him, but there was little that he could do to stop her.
It'd been a while since someone had the audacity to yell at him like that.
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Things like getting chucked into a DPRK gulag - along with the rest of your family members - or having your exclusive privileges denied you, your name besmirched by the regime-controlled media, or perhaps even being killed in cold blood for having the audacity of losing on the world's stage. full story » Hao Hao Report - Published news
Obama names it—misnames it actually—after the life-changing sermon by Jeremiah Wright, “Audacity to Hope.” Deconstructing Obama
I think the skittish ConservaDems are wrong on the substance and the politics, a little audacity is what Dems and the country need, but one raised eyebrow from David Broder and an interactive poll about socialism from al Foxeera is enough to send the likes of McCaskill and Webb heading for the hills and hiding under their moist-mattressed beds. Matthew Yglesias » Setback for Public Option Revival as Rockefeller Says No
I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance!
The audacity many democrats have in believing that somehow ALL of Obama's dirty laundry (and despite what many pundits say about Clinton, she's really barely scratched the surface) won't be aired is inane. Clinton, Obama dead even, poll says
She had the audacity to look unbelieving.
He drew daily, favoring the broken stumps and butt ends of Conte crayons to achieve hardiesse, which sounds like "hardiness" but really means "audacity. Even Mightier Than The Pen
This was a mode of flattery too pleasing to encounter rebuke or censure; and the opportunity which it afforded the youth to form, as it were, a party of his own within the limits of the ancient barony of Avenel, added not a little to the audacity and decisive tone of a character, which was by nature bold, impetuous, and incontrollable. The Abbot
He had the audacity to ask for an increase in salary.
They spoke of youth, audacity and hope. Times, Sunday Times
The reason, in his own words, is his forthrightness and audacity.
Well I suppose that in many ways that's me on the receiving end of that slap and I'm about to pay for my audacity and impetuousness with questionable reviews. John Malik: The Many Flaws of My First Novel
Carl was now fully enraged with the audacity of the brash detective.
Yet the audacity of the writing, coupled with the crackling energy of the acting, makes this provocative exhibition well worth a visit. Times, Sunday Times
The audacity of such a return in the face of Turenne, who was doubtless in the King of Navarre's suite, almost took my breath away; nevertheless, I saw that it possessed one advantage which no other course promised -- that, I mean, of setting us right in the eyes of the world, and enabling me to meet in a straightforward manner such as maligned us. A Gentleman of France
Yet, despite ‘The Audacity of Hope’, all the audaciousness is coming from the wacky wingnuts and tea-baggers. Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 19, 2010
An amazing scheme - both for it's simplicity and sheer audacity.
Yet the audacity of the writing, coupled with the crackling energy of the acting, makes this provocative exhibition well worth a visit. Times, Sunday Times
He had the audacity to laugh in her face, as if she was still a child.
However, since she was brave enough to walk into the station without a stitch of clothing, all duty officers could do was shake their heads that the woman had the audacity to commit such an act.
She spoke with disdain in her voice and openly insulted him, then had the audacity to look pleased with herself.
The attention of the company was then directed, by a natural transition, to the little girl who had had the audacity to burn her hair off, and who, after receiving sundry small slaps and pushes from the more energetic of the ladies, was mercifully sent home: the ninepence, with which she was to have been rewarded, being escheated to the Kenwigs family. Nicholas Nickleby
The sheer audacity of the man took my breath away.
There will be shocks, tears, naked ambition and bare-faced audacity. The Sun
The democratic party is sadly mistaken if they think they can slap 18million voters in face and expect us to "unite" - the DNC made a mockery of the primary process in so many different ways ... this is not about any candidate now, it is the sheer 'audacity' of what they did to voters rights. Primaries over, Democrats promote unity
Now the bosses have the audacity to try to deskill the workers at the Central, and to run down factories in the name of modernisation.

How To Use Audacity In A Sentence

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