audacity

This was shockingly unbookish behavior made worse by flabbergasting audacity.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

At its worst, it could push people into costly court battles just for having the audacity to ask for information.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Mr. Armitage’s resplendent translation, proceeding with nerve, wisdom and necessary audacity, proves that literature does not progress so much as deepen, circling the same obsessions with ever-renewed urgency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The Purosangue’s wheels and tires, glorious in their audacity, also required some sophisticated workarounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

The family left this one room for Aunt Rose alone; even the cousins, in all their audacity, would not cross the threshold uninvited.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

Besides a light show with a simulated jungle made by hundreds of floor-to-ceiling twisty elastic bands, their presentation didn’t rely on expensive mechanical audacities; it resorted to what the program described as an “analogue inventiveness.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2016

In short, without Cassavetes both New Hollywood and the recent outpouring of zero-budget independent audacities would be unimaginable.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2016

While watching “Diary of a Teenage Girl,” I tried to imagine the superb movie that it nearly is, the one that Minnie’s passionate audacities could have sparked.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 7, 2015

An astounded Paris critic summed up his achievement: "Charles Ives seems to have created, before the Sacre du Printemps, a style which by its audacities places its author among the pioneers of music."

From Time Magazine Archive

After this, the Regent was for Cruikshank a stimulant to the drollest audacities.

From George Cruikshank by W. H. Chesson