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  • noun Plural form of audacity.

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Examples

  • His audacities of phrase struck him as grotesque, his felicities of expression were monstrosities, and everything was absurd, unreal, and impossible.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • In his short story "An Outpost of Progress," Joseph Conrad wrote that "few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings."

    Two Paths, Little Glory For This Polish Director Anthony Paletta 2011

  • It was like strong drink, firing him to audacities of feeling, — a drug that laid hold of his imagination and went cloud-soaring through the sky.

    Chapter 2 2010

  • This was a mere bugbear of mankind's addled fancy; and, by stinging audacities of thought and speech, by vivid slang that bit home by sheerest intimacy into his listeners 'mental processes, he drove the bugbear from their brains, showed them the loving clarity of God's design, and, thereby, induced in them spiritual serenity and calm.

    WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

  • In his short story "An Outpost of Progress," Joseph Conrad wrote that "few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings."

    Two Paths, Little Glory For This Polish Director Anthony Paletta 2011

  • When I first read him I was dazzled by his audacities.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • In his criticism over the years, Greenberg created, as much as anybody, the New York art world's almost arrogantly self-confident sense of itself as the place where the tradition of modern art remained secure — where the disturbing audacities offered Parisian audiences by Courbet, Manet, and the artists in their wake a hundred years earlier could be perpetuated.

    An Eye on the Tremors Schwartz, Sanford 2009

  • It is obvious that he perceived that Björnson had carried a very spirited raid into his own particular province, and he was determined to drive this audacious enemy back by means of greater audacities.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • It is obvious that he perceived that Björnson had carried a very spirited raid into his own particular province, and he was determined to drive this audacious enemy back by means of greater audacities.

    Henrik Ibsen 2008

  • "Looking over the list, I see that my taste remains centered on similar directorial audacities, from the depth compositions of Steven Soderbergh's hi-def Bubble to the sheer delirium of Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain - the first Minnellian science-fiction movie."

    GreenCine Daily: Lists, 12/21. 2006

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