audacious

• “I have used the term audacious in speaking of Delacroix, and circumstances forced him to justify the epithet.”

  McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896

• “He is part of what some here are calling an audacious solution to a massive problem: the budget deficit.”

  The Washington Post: To bust the deficit, Britain tries a revolution in volunteerism

• “O'Scannlain chided Judges Canby and Fisher for issuing an order he called an "audacious ruling" and said the judges lacked the authority to make such demands of prosecutors.”

  Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion

• “To address this set of challenges we will need bold - even 'audacious' - policies.”

  Economic Policy Institute

• “Under the terms of his plea deal, Syume has agreed to cooperate with authorities investigating what prosecutors have described as an audacious and long-running scheme that has led to charges against 40 people, including a top staffer on the D.C. Council.”

  The Washington Post: Taxi industry insider pleads guilty to bribing D.C. officials for licenses

• “Obama has been called audacious, and he certainly is.”

  Obama, knave or fool, latest edition

• “Well, she certainly, as well, and maybe a lot of us could make the parallels to another young black politician who people are calling audacious these days, who just might become the first black president -- Don.”

  CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007

• “Having, however, both taken and paid for my passage, and committed what old maids and sailors would call the audacious folly of starting upon a”

  Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada

• “Mr. Kipling is the more audacious, which is probably a matter of training.”

  The Splendid Spur

• “He gazed slowly with eyes that bulged out, with an expression audacious and sad.”

  The Nigger of the Narcissus

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