audacity

“Call it megalomania, genius, madness, audacity, irresponsibility, whatever you want,” said Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister of Mexico who once tangled with Castro.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Through her audacity and fierce self-belief, Osterberg was a prime mover in rewriting the playbook for women in British sport.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The production’s radical concept brings the queer audacity of Harlem Ballroom culture to these feline proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The Purosangue’s wheels and tires, glorious in their audacity, also required some sophisticated workarounds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026

“I refuse to let those folks in that office demean me because I have the audacity to ask for help.”

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

Watching “The Goldfinch,” I found myself fantasizing about one of the possible audacities that the movie, absent Theo’s unifying voice, could have hazarded.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019

Besides a light show with a simulated jungle made by hundreds of floor-to-ceiling twisty elastic bands, their presentation didn’t rely on expensive mechanical audacities; it resorted to what the program described as an “analogue inventiveness.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2016

While watching “Diary of a Teenage Girl,” I tried to imagine the superb movie that it nearly is, the one that Minnie’s passionate audacities could have sparked.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 7, 2015

An astounded Paris critic summed up his achievement: "Charles Ives seems to have created, before the Sacre du Printemps, a style which by its audacities places its author among the pioneers of music."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was employed by Burke in one of the audacities of his logic directed against the governments established after the French Revolution of 1789.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various