temerity

Nora can’t believe he has the temerity to ask her to star in his next work after many years of estrangement.

The Ontario government had the temerity to buy ad time to run clips of Reagan’s 1987 remarks warning about the dangers of protectionism.

That same year, Life magazine quoted an unnamed member of a symphony orchestra griping that Sinatra actually had the temerity to tell them what tempos he wanted his arrangements played in.

The administration is using it as a tool of vengeance because Harvard has had the temerity to resist the administration’s various edicts.

In the beginning, many scoffed at the temerity of a peanut farmer and one-term governor running for the highest office in the land.