audaciousness

King: Because there’s a daring to these people in this story — a boldness and a daring to at least try to live the way you want to live, which you have to do with an unparalleled audaciousness.

Isaacson weighs in on the subject only at the end of his book: “Do the audaciousness and hubris that drive him to attempt epic feats excuse his bad behavior, his callousness, his recklessness? The times he’s an a—? The answer is no, of course not.”

A Season 3 episode called “710N” is Exhibit A of that increased audaciousness.

But cultivating her own audaciousness was only Phase 1.

The incursions have revealed vulnerabilities in U.S. homeland defenses and the audaciousness of the Chinese government, Sullivan said, calling for stronger deterrence measures.