(n.) Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.
(n.) Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There isn't anyone that would have the audacity or poor behaviour to do that."
(2) Maybe they have military training but only certain people would have the balls – the audacity – to pull off something like that.” Another former robber said the stolen goods would already be at their destination.
(3) The audacity is astonishing: there was a wonderful debate in Scotland [last year], you lost it.
(4) When I first saw the film, I remember being stunned with Allen's sheer audacity in the scene where he remembers his old schoolroom, sitting alongside kids who harangue him in adult language about his sexual precocity: "For God's sake, Alvy, even Freud speaks of a latency period!"
(5) Anyway, back to these fraudsters, who are the least costly element of a leaky system, but nevertheless transfix the political imagination as though they were masterminds of cunning and audacity, whose long game were to destroy the fabric of society altogether.
(6) (“It’s a bit embarrassing if the audience doesn’t know the context.”) His film-making strengths – as displayed in Blissfully Yours, Tropical Malady , Syndromes and a Century , and Uncle Boonmee itself – are a structural audacity that often results in narratives stopping dead, switching characters, or reformatting themselves; a languid, lyrical shooting style; and an unhurried investigation of memory and place.
(7) When Putin complained recently that calls for a Russian ban were a worrying sign of politics interfering in sport, it was hard not to laugh at his audacity.
(8) Euan Loughrey, 15, from St Malachy's College, in Belfast, had a copy of Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, hoping to get it signed.
(9) And now he is attempting to bully and disparage yet another federal judge … for having the audacity to do his job and apply the rule of the law.” The first White House response to the Seattle ruling came on Friday night, with a promise to appeal and a defense of the order as “lawful and appropriate”.
(10) I dearly hope that just as some jurisdictions had the audacity to lead on marijuana reform, they will find equivalent courage to learn from services and policies that have been tried in other countries.
(11) One of his staunchest allies, perhaps surprisingly, was Stan Brakhage , the experimental American film-maker whose work was in a different world from Russell's, but who frequently showed his films to students as object lessons in effective audacity.
(12) I thought if he’s, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five-year-old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front-seat passenger doing the same thing then what, what care does he give about me?” he said.
(13) Clegg's coalition decision last week was certainly a fateful call for the Liberal Democrats, but the palm for political audacity in May 2010 belongs above all to Cameron.
(14) On Twitter, people leapt to underline the audacity of his remarks under the hashtag #DonLemonReporting.
(15) The rise of Grace Mugabe is an unfolding political fairytale that creates awe from her followers, concern from the primed, and exposes her sheer audacity.
(16) "The audacity of the show is what really appeals to Americans," he explains.
(17) There is the audacity, the bravery, the willingness to take risks with feats of outrageous derring-do.” He added: “When [Churchill] wrote his 1922 white paper that paved the way for accelerated Jewish entry into Palestine, Churchill imagined Jews and Arabs living side by side, with technically expert Jewish farmers helping the Arabs to drive tractors.
(18) You need audacity to pull off a white blazer, never mind a World Cup win.
(19) Other crimes have got their points but for the audacity of it and the way it captured the public imagination, it's up there.
(20) I’m disappointed that these individuals who cannot fathom my job have the audacity to impose a change to how I function.
Fearless
Definition:
(a.) Free from fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) She rather fearlessly implied that "women who make lots of money from illicit sex" should forfeit the right to freedom of expression.
(2) They are fearless because there are so many of them."
(3) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(4) I mean he did thousands of songs and obviously he didn’t get every single thing right, but he was fearless.
(5) Fearless and independent Ethics Committees have considerable influence on both the design and implementation of clinical research, and on the topics of allowable research in which infants and children will be involved.
(6) He was fearless and driven, creating music quickly, and without ever stopping to wonder whether his push for new sounds would alienate his audience."
(7) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
(8) In a memo to AP staff, AP President Gary Pruitt remembered Niedringhaus as "spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember."
(9) "The events of July 2011 [when the Guardian reported that Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked by the News of the World] have demonstrated that vigorous and fearless responsible journalism is vital for public interest.
(10) "The further away from the road the more fearless the chimps got," he added.
(11) Wesley Snipes is fearless Facebook Twitter Pinterest The actor elicited as many gasps as he did laughs in introducing Lee while speaking in a put-on thick African accent.
(12) Hillary Clinton stands for everything I admire and everything I want to be – compassionate, fearless, sincere,” said Biira, who now works at Heifer International.
(13) In a letter to the director general, Tony Hall, coordinated by Labour’s Pat McFadden, a cross-party group of MPs and MEPs calls on the corporation to “resist attempts at political interference”, and “report fearlessly and impartially” on the negotiations as Britain leaves the European Union .
(14) He has shown giant dignity, and like all of us he may not be faultless but he's certainly fearless.
(15) Yet this impression of youthful fearlessness is a little deceptive.
(16) I speak only for myself when I say I am adventurous, independent, and perhaps a little too fearless sometimes.
(17) That such a popular drama does this so fearlessly is rather magnificent.
(18) Good-looking and apparently fearless, he would swoop in to visit German troops in Afghanistan looking like an extra from Top Gun in aviator shades, flight suit and desert boots.
(19) I felt at home in the journalistic tribe and encouraged by the apparent fearlessness with which they expressed their opinions.
(20) I would want them to know that they too need to be bold, courageous and fearless, just as everybody else, male or female, who defied the odds to follow their dreams.