Sentences with phrase «what audacity»

What audacity!!

What audacity he has to go on national television and put forward a veiled threat to the US?

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«In the nicest way, what makes him unique is his absolute audacity,» says Bob Ezrin, an award - winning record producer who's been a close friend of Cohl's since both were breaking into the business in Toronto.

This may go against the grain but let me tell you from my experience, people who have the audacity to ask for six figures have zero regard for what it's like to work at a startup.

A self - empowered startup entrepreneur has the vision, audacity, and fortitude to will a company into existence and will leverage the heck out of what s / he can.

You have the audacity to tell a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints what his Church teaches?

The problem is Akin had the audacity to articulate what the official Republican Party Platform has become.

What Michael's greatest projects have had in common is audacity.

What matters is whether a Christian in the purity of his faith and his understanding of man joins the struggle and demonstrates by the audacity of his faith, by his love for his neighbour, and his optimism about the future, that he is not just the passive object of history or even of the new society, but rather the co-author and co-architect of the new order.9

oh, so like pretty much all religious people you have the audacity and hubris to speak disparagingly about what other people * think * their religion is supposed to be about, implying that, apparently, you and only you have all the real answers.

Not only that, he then has the audacity to give me eternal punishment for doing what he created me to do.

But what amazing spiritual audacity!

So in spite of my trepidation, and in awe of tradition, and knowing that this gives an impression of audacity when what I feel is rather an obligation that I can not avoid, I am impelled by my understanding (such as I am capable of) to raise this challenge.

You have the pure audacity to ask what harm the Catholic church has done?

At this stage I was «Barthian,» I suppose, although in my anger at what I saw as illegitimate linkages between Christianity and literature, «graduate student cockiness» might be a more accurate appellation (the review of the book in The Christian Century was titled «Charming Audacity»).

And you had the audacity to go on national television, show the world what you did, and dare the legal system to stop you.

Three, the Church has a responsibility to speak out with greater audacity on their behalf (including those who are not as famous as Meriam Ibrahim), no matter what Islamic law says about them.

Originally a Yiddish term, chutzpah is an attitude of self - confidence, or audacity, that allows a person to say or act in an honest, bold manner — to courageously state what one believes to be true and do what one thinks is right.

Although the Scot has not yet publicly commented on this turn of events, Old Trafford legend Paddy Crerand has probably said what Fergie is thinking, blasting the Premier League and the bods that work there for having the audacity not to allow the Red Devils to have home matches against West Brom, Stoke and Hull after a tough trip having to beat some Danish minnows.

who isn't even the subject of what I wrote about yet you have the audacity to say I «crawl out the woodwork at the mention of his name».

I know what these players must feel that their president has the audacity to take them on in this way.

«For Jean Mensah to have the audacity to tell Kofi Adams that he does not know what he's talking about was what got be angry, he's my National Organizer, a Senior Party official.

Chick - fil - A has been ruffling feathers since its president Dan Cathy was quoted saying he supported the «biblical definition» of marriage as between a man and a woman and prayed for «God's mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we would have the audacity to try to redefine what marriage is all about.»

Well, my comment was «moderated» out by the martinets at the Daily Politics because I had the audacity to include a link to a 101 year old speech from Teddy Roosevelt which demolishes J. Myrle Fuller and Sheldon Skelos and affirms what the economic values and responsibilities of citizenship in the USA are really all about.

What's more, the lunatic fringe of politicians and their apple - polishers should note that the fact that they are seeking power, or are aiming to cling onto power, does not give them an audacity to engage in electoral violence, before, during and after the 2016 general elections.

What was really striking was the political audacity of this leap of the imagination.

What many predicted would become a harsh referendum on the audacity of Sean Eldridge — a first - time Democratic candidate with a thin résumé and a thick wallet — has instead revealed the depth of bipartisan affection for Mr. Gibson, a decorated veteran of two wars who returns his $ 4,300 - a-month military pension to taxpayers, has capped his service in Congress at eight years, and travels the district in a black ragtop Mustang (a gift from his wife when he returned home from duty in Kosovo).

TM, in «Building a Life Sciences Innovation Ecosystem,» scientists from the University of California Berkeley's California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences have the audacity to suggest that funding for academic science in the United States is «generous», and that «what the government gets in return may not be proportional to its investment.»

This is a woman who not only has the audacity to stand up to Anna Wintour (as we saw more than a few times in the documentary), but also the confidence to rock that billowing cloud of I - don't - care - what - you - think red hair within the halls of Vogue — where the word «critical» is likely an understatement.

The film is nothing but loud noises, people screaming at each other at the top of their lungs, brutally revolting in its graphic depictions of dismemberment and gruesome murders, and will leave you needing a shower to wash away the icky and nauseous feeling at attempting to view what some idiot (Peter Berg, The Rundown) had the audacity to think would be grand entertainment.

Also important: you can judge the audacity and creative thinking of an awards group not by what it nominates but by what it selects as a winner in each category.

During that same period, Farber referred to Preston Sturges as a filmmaker working eternally within «the presence of Dada and surrealism» — and it's taken over fifty years, it seems, for the United States to produce what is at its essence the product of a marriage between Welles's self - conscious audacity and Sturges's common touch: Charlie Kaufman — more specifically, the Charlie Kaufman Screenplay.

In Hope on a Tightrope, an eloquent collection of both audio (on CD) and printed meditations, West indirectly challenges Obama to prove that the «Audacity of Hope» is more than a campaign slogan, asking, «What price are you willing to pay?»

But what excitement this movie is able to muster soon gives way to the startling realization that virtually none of its twists, for all their dimension - hopping audacity, have been coherently or intelligently thought through.

The friendship the pair strike up, the intimacy of their various conversations, the sheer simplistic audacity of much of what they showcase, all of it adds up to something intimately spellbinding, the whole motion picture casting an undeniably enchanting spell that's downright marvelous.

The functional plot and Gordon's non-flashy directorial style aren't what make From Beyond such a memorable cult item; as with Re-Animator, it's more the audacity of staging elaborate sequences that mix up steamy sexual proclivities and monster madness.

If Andrew Haigh, the director of Weekend, the earnest, prosaic, and mostly unsurprising British drama that won an Emerging Visions Audience Award at South by Southwest last night, is considered a fresh new voice in cinema, then what about Matt D'Elia, who shows more breathtaking audacity in his debut feature, American Animal, than Haigh shows in his Richard Linklater - ish romantic talkfest?

The moment our education system becomes above the law and is free to destroy whatever documentation and person has the audacity to reflect something other than what that system tells people to believe, we forfeit the experiment begun by our Founding Fathers.

In The great all - rounder, Simon Charlesworth discovers what makes the car so appealing to drive / For this month's Auto - biography, Matthew Bell travels to Milan to meet Corrado Lopresto — the well - known collector and view his 150 examples of Italian exotica / In Dealing with a Delage disaster, Douglas Blain tells how a major mechanical failure almost took the sole - surviving 1914 Delage Grand Prix car off the road for good, while Philip Guilfoyle explains how modern technology was used to create a brand new engine block / Doomed by its audacity and now largely forgotten, the Hotchkiss - Grégoire was a technological tour de force.

After having the jeep for two days, they had the audacity to charge me labor for investigating my complaint, then finding out what was wrong with the jeep and then replacing the battery.

But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That's what things look like in our cities at present

Let's just say that someone who found themselves on the other side of the GHH crowd after signing the petition a few months ago now has the audacity to talk about how inclusive science fiction — and by implication because of what this person was commenting about — SFWA are.

This isn't yet another murky blog that defiantly stamps its foot over the «problems» in traditional publishing, and the sheer audacity of publishing companies to expect an author to help with marketing, all of which usually acts as a thin veil that covers what is, at best, an uninspired book and at worst a flimsy manuscript littered with bad formatting, typos, grammatical errors and plot inconsistencies.

I ask because some people tend to get their backs up when others have the audacity to suggest that what they have believed all their lives just isn't so.

What made the game transcend its random circumstances was its makers audacity.

Kramer wrote that with Steve, Hendricks «produced a tour - de-force» and «as an added note of audacity, he paints into the reflections of the (figure's) mirrored sunglasses two little cityscapes and what may be a miniature self - portrait of the artist himself at work.

Regardless of the substrate, Zuckerman - Hartung explores what is possible when paint is employed with equal parts rigor and audacity.

Of course there's other esoteric and interesting «hows,» but to have the audacity to put forth a «what» that you have invented is to take a particular position in relation to the wide visibility of methods that, at the very least, conditionalize if not efface artistic agency.

He extended art into the hyperspace of culture and brought more of the culture into art; he took the non sequiturs of everyday life and created what amounted to a buzzing optically alive American Cubism of changing perspectives, optical energy, and aesthetic audacity.

The good news is that the 76 - year - old Lüpertz emerges from all this exposure as precisely what some of us had always imagined him: an artist of the first rank who has made a career out of audacity, and a style out of inconsistency.