Sentences with word «chutzpah»

"Chutzpah" is a Yiddish word that means having audacity, nerve, or boldness. It refers to someone having the courage or confidence to do something that others might find surprising or improper. Full definition
I have to shake my head in wonder each time I hear about a new search engine: it has to be almost the best example of chutzpah in the worldThe classic example, of course, is the defendant who killed his mother and father and then pleads for mercy because he's an orphan.
Try this sales pitch on for chutzpah: «Compared to two years ago, a person can say they're paying for something they got for nothing....
Don't you think this behavior takes CHUTZPAH?
And kudos to both of them for the sheer chutzpah of allowing themselves to be filmed in an extended sequence illuminated only by black lights.
It's also quite sporty, and injects an ample amount of handling chutzpah into the ridin» - high body of a family - friendly SUV.
Add remaining ingredients to eggs, then stir vigorously with a wide spoon, applying enough chutzpah as you go to break down the yolks a fair bit.
This was more than a bit of chutzpah from a novice.
Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as «gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible «guts», presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to».
A man who isn't afraid to do business online with serious chutzpah, and yet who develops real relationships and contributes to «the conversation.»
I, therefore, thought that the Netherland's finance minister — a country serving as the key enforcer of German austerity - at - all - cost (as long as the costs are not theirs) policies — showed an incredible chutzpah when he lectured the U.S. Congress last Friday that it would be a real tragedy (sic) if mandated spending cuts were to stifle American economic growth.
Even the deservedly - maligned Pinhead Goes to Space, or whatever the fourth film in the Hellraiser saga is called, shows more chutzpah in its fright pieces and execution.
Pin - balling between tragedy and farce so fast that it can be hard to follow, «Norman» unfolds like a Coen brothers comedy that has too much chutzpah and not enough charm.
Obama has time and again shown little chutzpah on climate, though the window is so wide open, the link to clean energy jobs so clearcut, I'm kind of jonesing for a line like:
Not only will the budget push businesses and the wealthy from the state, he warns, but «Paterson — whose 19 percent job - approval rating has driven him into the arms of the leftist Working Families Party and public - employee unions he hopes will help him win election next year — was openly mocking government accountability, claiming with breathtaking chutzpah that by keeping negotiations secret, he was following the wishes of the press.»
The protagonist is a mother who displays real chutzpah.
In fact, Trump's chutzpah makes him particularly suitable a voice for the deep grievances of the precariat, which he despises and humiliates, even as his proposed solutions of unregulated capitalism and chaotic protectionism are more likely to impoverish rather than improve their lot.
It takes considerable chutzpah to paint Britain's current political circumstances as a remedy for the poor.
Peter and Bobby Farrelly, in particular, deserve credit for pushing the dick - joke envelope forward in terms of pure chutzpah: The Ben Stiller's — nuts - stuck - in - a-zipper scene in There's Something About Mary is perhaps the single greatest example of the Unexpected Dick Shot subgenre.
Gov. Cuomo wins this month's chutzpah award: He called it a «shame» that the goals of the nascent Women's Equality Party — created solely for the political benefit of one Andrew Cuomo — might be overwhelmed by «politics.»
I, for one, love the idea that there are superfoods — certain edibles that go the extra mile in terms of nutritional chutzpah.
Give Affleck and fellow producers Grant Heslov and George Clooney chutzpah points for trying to apply this Howard Hawks - style workplace - comedy approach to such a catastrophic event as the 1979 Iranian revolution and U.S. hostage - taking.
And when you add these social benefits to the educational advantages of customized schooling, you can see why I'm glad that Jeb Bush and other reformers had the Hank Greenberg — like chutzpah to change the way that Florida does education.
A spokesman had the unmitigated chutzpah to call it «an investment in our legislative and political power.»
A wag once said that the Yiddish word Chutzpah has been defined as the quality of a person who is accused of killing his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the Court because he is an orphan.
The Crown's chutzpah runs throughout the entire line of post-1982 Aboriginal rights cases from Guerin to the most recent decision, Manitoba Métis Federation Inc. v. Canada (AG) 2013 SCC 14 (MMF), decided Friday, March 8, 2013.
I'll leave you with a slide from Intel's Working with Israelis guidebook on how to deal with Israeli Chutzpah.
The Post renamed the WFP the «Working Chutzpah Party» after it claimed the Kurger - Boyland - Lispsky corruption scandal is proof New York needs a taxpayer - funded campaign finance program like the one that already exists in NYC.
No one could accuse human genome pioneer J. Craig Venter of lacking chutzpah.
Outside of these themes is mostly a biography of Donald Trump covering his life up until the late 1980's written with Trump's well - known chutzpah (for better or for worse).
And if the speaker is willing (that's where chutzpah comes in), the camera rolls.
Ross's promotional chutzpah could have been taken from theatrical producer and entrepreneur Garth Drabinsky's playbook: «We had a central booth and were giving out free booze to a bunch of theatre people,» Ross recounts with a coy smile.
And this kind of chutzpah manifests in unexpected ways.
Nonetheless, we must applaud their non-religious chutzpah.
This was an unheard - of provocation, unprecedented chutzpah.
With typical chutzpah, Cameron likes to claim those states in favour of such an FTT just want to «get out of their aid commitments».
They might also have been laughing at their own chutzpah in claiming Labour «aren't interested in controlling our own laws or immigration», as if that hadn't been Conservative party policy until June.
The boyish congressman had outer - borough chutzpah.

Phrases with «chutzpah»

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