How To Use Temerity In A Sentence
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You do not need a great deal of temerity to suggest that in the circumstances.
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In fact, Leviev had the temerity to lecture Namibians on what would be good for them under his tutelage.
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And if you have the temerity to do so your reputation will be shattered and your dignity will be shredded.
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This led to a split, and the expulsion of the socialist students league, despite the temerity of this organisation.
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It takes time and temerity to get beneath the surface of them all.
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Leopard Man" is a plotboiler: an old story written for a quick $25: the Leopard Man, a circus performer, tells a reporter of "King" Wallace, a lion-tamer who is hated by another man, a juggler and sword-swallower named De Ville, toward whose wife Wallace had the temerity to look upon, apparently lustfully.
“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .”
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Except at the very end of C&A, when a cleaned-up Ford, in semiformal cowboy wear a shout out to my friend Roger Ebert complete with oddly banded cowboy hat, positively beams as he tries to take Daniel Craig's hat off to uncover his rumored forehead and eyebrows and is shot dead by Deadly Dan for his temerity.
Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
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Many at the environmental assessment meetings at least had the temerity to question the spending priorities of our governments.
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The impertinent guest, who shall remain nameless, even had the temerity to charge it to his host's account - a prominent champagne house.
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I admired his book and one day had the temerity to write and tell him so.
THE BLACK OPAL
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While not to solely pick on Hillary Clinton: Has Barack Obama showed any temerity to go up against this powerful president when he has in the past voted to re-fund this war time and time again?
Mike Gravel unlike Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama bravely speaks truth to power
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Would you believe that Maud has the temerity to lie about her birthday?
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Besides the fact that the IFP list of its so-called assassinated leaders contains some fictitious names, Mdlalose has the temerity to be concerned only about the so-called IFP leaders.
STATEMENT ON PREMIER MDLALOSE'S STATEMENT
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To further the debate, or for a cheap gag against a Scouser with a very-slightly wonky gob, who has the temerity to be married to the most powerful man in the country without even ever killing a fox?
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Some Singaporeans, emboldened by the drive for feedback, seem to be taking the government at its word with a temerity that would have been unthinkable - and unpublishable - in the past.
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Above all, she has a breathtaking fearlessness, and the talent to back up her temerity.
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For his temerity he was sentenced to be nailed by his ears to the local pillory and responded by laying a curse on the courtroom and city.
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Now that he had done it, he felt amazed at his own temerity in delivering such an ultimatum to the Coronal.
VALENTINE PONTIFEX
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Because, in Mary's world, anyonewho would dare have the temerity to question the right of Dick Cheney to do whatever he pleased got what they deserved.
Christy Hardin Smith: Libby Trial: The Trouble With Mary
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A scientist who had the temerity to ask at Philadelphia for one was severely reproved.
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They even had the temerity to ask how much I earn, which I always thought was a secret between me and the Receiver of Income.
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Her soft whimpering had roused the wolfer each time this occurred and every new admirer had been greeted with a charge of buckshot as he slipped toward the house, three dog coyotes having paid for their temerity with their lives.
The Yellow Horde
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The astonishment at Exeter's temerity to claim the lead had barely subsided when the Grecians doubled their advantage.
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Another point the pro capital punishment followers have the temerity to argue is that the threat of execution is more of a deterrent than life imprisonment.
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He actually had the temerity to tell her to lose weight.
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The firm courage, heroic devotion, and pure loyalty of an archangelic character have been corrupted into desperate temerity and re - bellious unyielding arrogance, a resolution indomitably malign.
PROBLEM OF EVIL
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He bitterly rebuked them for having the temerity to come crawling to him for a loan after publicly disdaining him.
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She was very touchy when one brave soul had the temerity to suggest that she had made more than the usual number of unforced errors in her opening match.
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The bold realist whose candor, even temerity, was legendary turned out to have been hiding a secret.
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Winter, readers, has arrived, taking up residence with all the bulk and temerity of a spinster aunt come to visit, laden with cats and carpet bags.
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It is his temerity in assuming that love is universally a good thing and a cause for celebration that has doomed him.
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Now nearly two decades older, I am not yet entirely depleted of breezy temerity.
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He actually had the temerity to tell her to lose weight.
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Even the timorous Lord Mayor, who was summoned that night before the Privy Council to answer for his conduct, came back contented; observing to all his friends that he had got off very well with a reprimand, and repeating with huge satisfaction his memorable defence before the Council, ‘that such was his temerity, he thought death would have been his portion.’
Barnaby Rudge
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One of the German reporters had even had the temerity to suggest that Todd was undergoing plastic surgery.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Galileo was charged with heresy by the Christian church for having the temerity to suggest that the earth went round the sun.
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He actually had the temerity to tell her to lose weight.
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However, nobody should have the temerity to mix any of these millions of potential sources of pharmaceuticals with modern medicinal products and tom-tom it as a discovery.
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Don't you think it'll have something to do with your act, I venture, receiving an affronted look for my temerity.
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Describing a scene in "Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley" (1918) where two characters are mocked for their pretensions to individuality and refinement, Mr. Shannon puts in a good word for "the Irish art of begrudgery," the much-noted Celtic practice of ridiculing anyone in the community who had the temerity to stand out.
Visiting Cagney's Neighborhood
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You would assuredly repent of your temerity," said the obstinate contagionist.
Rattlin the Reefer
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Rev. Wright is on tape spewing some pretty vile anti-American stuff from the pulpit, yet Klein accuses Davis of being the one "spreading the poison" for having the temerity to question whether it was appropriate for Barack Obama to sit silent in the pews of Trinity United for 20 years.
Lanny Spreads 'The Poison' - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
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And then she had the temerity to sit there in a press conference and argue between herself and yourself.
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Galileo was charged with heresy by the Christian church for having the temerity to suggest that the earth went round the sun.
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On the contrary, those that have deserted him shall be ashamed before him; they shall be ashamed of themselves, ashamed of their unbelief, their cowardice, ingratitude, temerity, and folly, in forsaking so glorious a Redeemer.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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He says that paper plus water, plus emotion will give a result in themselves and proceeds with the idea at hand in what may without the least temerity be called a masterly fashion; he has run the gamut of experience with his materials from the earliest
Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
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But he didn't acknowledge me at all until I had the temerity to speak, and ask a question.
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And this Minister has the audacity and temerity to try to say that that is listening to the people.
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You have the temerity to blame the free market for unemployment?
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We must make allowance for the intoxication of recent triumph and final victory over a triumphing and victorious enemy; or who but would start back at the aweless temerity of this assertion?
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Officers could be just as bad as the men, knocking hats off cab drivers and horse-whipping officials who had the temerity to make any demands of them.
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He had the temerity to call me a liar!
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We just want to make great music, put it out and have the temerity to think that there are enough people out there who are like-minded and have as high standards as we do.
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When I had the temerity to refer to this survey in a newspaper column, the wrath of a very substantial and vocal lobby came down upon my head.
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From the date of its inception, the NHS was seen as a really British achievement, something to give pride to the entire population, and woe betide anyone with the temerity to suggest other.