What's the difference between audacity and insolence?

Audacity


Definition:

  • (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.

Insolence


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being unusual or novel.
  • (n.) The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.
  • (n.) Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
  • (v. t.) To insult.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
  • (2) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (3) Subjects used these insoles during dance class for 15 weeks.
  • (4) Based on clinical and biomechanical peculiarities of foot, in the institute have been developed insertable orthopaedic devices for mass-produced footwear for mentioned pathology: corrective device with unloading element and curative insole.
  • (5) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
  • (6) The author discusses the use of accommodative weight-dispersing insoles as an alternative to surgical excision for the treatment of such lesions.
  • (7) Controlled rigidity is provided by the incorporation of a spring steel shank between the sponge insole and the hard wearing plastic sole.
  • (8) I was told it was a contractual requirement, despite there being no mention of either the strike system or the obligation to sell insoles within the contract itself.
  • (9) Therefore running shoe insoles can eliminate peak forces by exactly placing supporting elements.
  • (10) Treat with orthotic insoles or look at upping your shoe size.
  • (11) This paper describes a study of the effectiveness of commercially available shock absorbing insoles when used in four different pairs of shoes during normal walking.
  • (12) Insoles will be available to turn any existing shoes into smartshoes.
  • (13) A new method was developed for the quality testing of shoes, insoles and sport shoes.
  • (14) The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare the impact forces in running using running shoes with conventional insoles to the impact forces using running shoes with four different viscoelastic insoles, 2) to discuss possible effects of the viscoelastic insoles on lower leg kinematics, and 3) to explain the force and kinematic results using a mechanical model.
  • (15) A full account is given of (a) Wilhelm Werneck's therapeutic coagulations (1835): rupturing of cataract by focussed light (sun, phosphorus); (b) Maximilian Adolf Langenbeck's "insolation" of corneal, pupillary and retinal lesions and of traumatic cataract (1859); (c) Vinzenz Czerny's coagulation experiments on the retina of various animals (1867, 1882).
  • (16) Vertical foot bearing pressure was decreased by an average of 18% by wearing shoes padded with a Professional Protective Technology insole and the decrease was greater in patients with higher foot pressure.
  • (17) About a third of dancers fitted with viscoelastic insoles and a tenth of placebo insert wearers found that the insoles made their shoes too tight to be comfortable.
  • (18) Without physical exercise and direct insolation death usually occurred later (on the average of 5-9 days) from acute renal and renal-hepatic failure.
  • (19) The mechanism of the static effects of the wedged insole for the medial osteoarthritic knee was studied in ten women.
  • (20) The most important finding was that an elastic polymer insole with good shock absorbency properties did not prevent stress reactions of bone during a 12-week period of vigorous physical training.