What's the difference between chutzpa and chutzpah?

Chutzpa


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Chutzpah


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  • (1) Russell, with typical chutzpah, claimed it was the best thing he ever made.
  • (2) It takes some chutzpah and, let's face it, a lack of perspective for a celebrity to ask a war crimes tribunal for these sorts of restrictions, but perhaps we should expect no more from a woman who said that she had never heard of Liberia when she met Charles Taylor at a charity dinner given by Nelson Mandela in 1997.
  • (3) So the struggle to return to a kind of normal is evident – but so are the pride and chutzpah; the drive and ego that presumably help to keep a difficult show on the road.
  • (4) She was turned down when she applied to study art at Central Saint Martins, but when she told them the decision would ruin her life and she'd end up a "crackhead prostitute", they let her in for sheer chutzpah.
  • (5) Simply because he is not begging on a street corner (except when he's busking, which he does with glorious chutzpah) or drooling with a spent needle hanging from his arm, you presume he is doing fine.
  • (6) Whatever your view of Rich's approach to business, you had to admire his chutzpah.
  • (7) One writes off, with breathtaking chutzpah, a then-prominent school of Scottish painters as "a tiny, unimportant part of the international art world".
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Panama Papers explained An equivalent blast of Cameronian chutzpah today might work wonders again – assuming, of course, that no awkward secrets are still lurking behind the evolving denials.
  • (9) So to see someone with that chutzpah and bullet-proof, Teflon, confidence close up is fascinating.
  • (10) It takes a great deal of chutzpah to run for president of the United States.
  • (11) In 1984, with the chutzpah of youth, he launched himself in business.
  • (12) In the event, she didn't need to prove her chutzpah.
  • (13) The chutzpah of these attempts to build support for an increasingly unpopular fracking industry is astonishing.
  • (14) This involved a massive dose of chutzpah but it is clearly smart politics if they can pull it off.
  • (15) Now, it's not like the political class had an extraordinary annual general meeting and appointed Clegg as its new anti-Farage attack dog: with his customary chutzpah, he simply appointed himself to the role.
  • (16) It's bold talk, but so far, Lawrence's choice of roles has justified her chutzpah; her next project, Jodie Foster's The Beaver, is a "weird as hell film" (Lawrence's words) with Mel Gibson as a depressed man who communicates through his beaver   hand-puppet.
  • (17) But with no little chutzpah, Qureshi even finds a way of folding that turquoise-coloured eyesore into a story of civic wonderment.
  • (18) By the end one could only admire West Brom’s chutzpah, a quality United appear to have temporarily mislaid.
  • (19) The word "chutzpah" is barely adequate to describe a lecture from the head of a school that is highly selective both academically and financially – it has one of the country's most distinguished academic records, and charges about £14,000 a year – accusing the state sector of excessive regard for commercialism.
  • (20) His blend of chutzpah and dynamism seduced many voters who felt he articulated their own exasperation with an ageing, sclerotic political class.

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