(1) The problem is no longer that it's brazen, but that it's banal.
(2) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
(3) The early stages of grief can make a person brazen; for awhile, you have nothing left to lose.
(4) This is the stuff women are thinking about all the time, even as we brazenly strut through grocery store parking lots at eight in the morning, wearing overalls, with our hair in ponytails.
(5) A machine gun-wielding provincial governor took part in tackling a team of Taliban suicide bombers on Sunday when insurgents launched another brazen attack on a government facility in Afghanistan .
(6) He now faces an even harder task of selling his economic policies to a doubting and cash-strapped nation when his taxman in chief, the man responsible for fiscal "justice", was hiding a stack of cash from the tax authorities and brazenly lying about it.
(7) This whole affair was a brazen attempt to intimidate those who believe that drilling for oil in the melting Arctic is reckless and unsafe.
(8) Sony Pictures has denounced a “brazen” cyberattack it said netted a “large amount” of confidential information, including movies as well as personnel and business files.
(9) "The offenders have for a long time been brazenly committing crimes, avoiding investigations and even ganging up to violently oppose law enforcement."
(10) The site was set up in Ukraine in 2001 and was described by the cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs as “the most brazen collection of carders, hackers and cyberthieves the internet had ever seen”.
(11) Or is its purpose to project an impression of Russian strength and confidence – which means that talking constantly about its brazen attitude only augments that perception?
(12) India has seen many scams before, but few have been as brazen and on such a scale as those that have come to light in recent weeks.
(13) The news stunned many across the country, leaving them to wonder how the government failed to convict members of an armed militia that brazenly occupied federal property and then broadcast it live on social media.
(14) Simon Danczuk, the current MP for Rochdale, who named Smith as an abuser two weeks ago on the floor of the Commons, said the case indicated he was a serial and brazen abuser over many decades.
(15) But if Facebook flirts too brazenly with commercial partners, it may see its growth slow down dramatically.
(16) The brazenness of Temme’s testimony ignited anger in the German press about the prerogatives of its intelligence agencies, but it has since mostly subsided.
(17) Then, once they’ve drained the place of its most unnecessary items, in a show of brazen materialism, they’ll photograph their receipt and post it online.
(18) While Guzmán nurtured his terrain and loyalty like a feudal lord beloved by his people, Los Zetas rule by brute, brazen terror.
(19) The self-employed – long believed to be the most brazen tax evaders – will be particularly hard hit with taxes of up to 35 per cent on income earned.
(20) The Guardian view on the generation gap: youth clubbed | Editorial Read more Last week’s budget was a particularly brazen case in point, as George Osborne scrapped maintenance grants for poorer university students (worth up to £3,387 a year), did away with housing benefit for 18 to 21 year olds and made one glaring exception to his new “national living wage”, which will rise to at least £9 by 2020: those under 25, who will be paid a lower minimum wage.
Shamelessness
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(1) It is tempting to visualise the yawning gap between the real-life equivalents of the fictional Chatsworth Estate, where Shameless is set, and Green Templeton College, Oxford, where Walker works.
(2) It was written by Sarah Hooper, who worked on Channel 4's Shameless, and is scheduled to launch in autumn next year.
(3) Eliot's poem – composed in the emotional carnage of the post-second world war period – was originally entitled (borrowing, shamelessly, from Dickens's Our Mutual Friend), He Do the Police in Different Voices.
(4) The other side is methodically and shamelessly threatening us militarily ...
(5) The heavy price of Goldsmith’s shameless attempts to tarnish a liberal Muslim is that it will become harder, not easier, for Asians to call out unacceptable practices in their own communities.
(6) That shameless charlatan is always stealing my best lines ... usually before I think of them.
(7) Any list of the decade's most memorable shows would be dominated by series that began in its early years: The Office, Spooks, Peep Show, The Thick of It, Shameless.
(8) She had moved on from playing loud, blousy, funny girls on television ( Twinkle in Dinnerladies with Victoria Wood , and Veronica in Shameless ) to complex, heavy-duty characters (Myra Hindley in See No Evil ) and sophisticated, career-driven women (barrister Martha Costello in Peter Moffat’s Silk ).
(9) ); greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell; he is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless.
(10) The track, shamelessly mocking the pretensions of people who falsely associate themselves with the fashions and styles of the sprauncy Gangnam district of Seoul – a kind of South Korean Beverly Hills – has been called a "force for world peace" by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .
(11) But in a country that's still only comfortable acknowledging bad literary sex, the shamelessness is utterly refreshing, even – dare anyone ever admit it – arousing.
(12) Women are either shaggable or saintly (maternal, married to a male celebrity, silent), or desiccated harridans and shameless slappers.
(13) Shamelessly, he named the culprit, knowing it would kill the play's chances.
(14) At his trial, he shamelessly denied his crimes and claimed he had been a prisoner of the Hutu extremists, not their leader in Kibuye.
(15) Late-night TV hosts on Trumpcare: 'Democrats need to add emotion to the numbers' Read more Seth Meyers began: “Senate Republicans have been engaged in one of the most shameless, breathtakingly cynical exercises in political history, writing a healthcare bill behind closed doors and not telling anyone what’s in it.
(16) Remember those embarrassing bills for wisteria clearance at the young Conservative leader’s home amid the expenses debacle of 2009, and how these were lopped away by a merciless assault on the more shameless claims of various knights of the shire?
(17) Nominees: Paul Abbott - Shameless 2, Company Pictures for Channel 4 Jed Mercurio - Bodies (Series 2), Hat Trick Productions for BBC3 Actor - Female Lesley Sharp - Afterlife, Clerkenwell Films for ITV "The jury described the winning actress as one of the most versatile in the business, who adds layers and depth to each and every one of her roles."
(18) He also draws about £30,000 a year for his work as a member of the European advisory board for Bridgepoint, a private equity firm that used to own Skins and Shameless maker All3Media, and which focuses on media and technology deals.
(19) He said at the time: “This is further evidence of how dishonest and slippery this government is.” That’s pretty shameless, when there’s now a suggestion that a front bench colleague had been promising the world to the applicant.
(20) Those who fight in East Aleppo shamelessly use civilians as a human shield,” Yakovenko writes.