temerity

• This temerity is admirable in Crowley's film, and even if the film's setup is by now quite conventional, a great supporting cast of young and old British actors (including Anne-Marie Duff and David Morrissey as Edward's quarrelsome parents) carries some of its more contrived melodramatics. —  indieWIRE News
• In a written statement, Doğan condemned what he described as the temerity of some members of the ruling party in resorting to threats and untruths to silence the media. —  Turkishdailynews Headlines
• She expected to be waylaid and to be made to suffer for her temerity, and perhaps she did; for about the close of that perilous year three disastrous fires, supposed to be the work of incendiaries, greatly reduced the family resources This portion of the life of Mrs. Gage has been dwelt upon at considerable length, because she regards the struggle then made against the wickedness, prejudice, and bigotry of mankind, as the main bravery of her life, and that if there has been heroism in any part of it, it was then displayed. —  Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
• Pιtion, who doubtless did not desire it, at least risked it; and if his intention was innocent, his temerity was a murder. —  History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
• Some attempted to go to England in a barge, and for their temerity were shot to death, hanged, or broken on the wheel. —  England in America, 1580-1652

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