audacity
audaciousness
nerviness AmE

One does not have the audacity to ask about television.

He does so with audacity, in terms of subject matter.

And nature is not known for taking such audacity into account.

What if they had been caught and killed for their audacity?

I certainly have to credit you with audacity, my young friend.

It would seem that care was better than audacity now.

One of them had the audacity to tell him that he was doing it to himself.

"Have you the audacity to claim that another will has been found?"

"One of the men from here even had the audacity to take me to the movies."

But not before he had the audacity to tie her again.

The audacity of that move had an electric effect on me.

His team had the audacity to shoot 68.4 percent and lead at the break by 21 points, 65-44.

It would be hard to top that comment for audacity.

But a second later, the Constitution paid for her audacity.

The story of that audacity was still going the rounds.

But after his "audacity of hope" speech, those days seemed long gone.

It was not stated for what, but audacity comes to mind.

Mm, and she's got the audacity to have a go at other people.

They have the audacity to ask the ultimate questions - Where did we come from?

"You have got the audacity to tell me to stay calm?"

The best response to such audacity is to ignore it.

This has to set some sort of record for rhetorical audacity.

"How do they have the audacity to pay for a building that they're going to tear down?"

They had the audacity to bring this in the room so the reporter could see it?

Somebody had the audacity to question the integrity of the Watch?

Feminist groups, for their part, have sometimes struggled to adjust to the rock artist's audaciousness.

A casual observer might, perhaps, applaud the audaciousness of this conduct.

Both made it on audaciousness and talent more than on conventional beauty.

Had he been human, Spock would have been surprised by her audaciousness.

Key features of the Conquistadores were their courage and audaciousness but also brutality.

The architect is Norman Foster, a man famous for his audaciousness.

Khouri almost laughed at the audaciousness of it all.

Like Blankers-Koen, she has a kind of necessary audaciousness to succeed.

And the costumey audaciousness is one that fashion insiders adore.

Moving back in time, we pay homage to the audaciousness of intrepid young men who rode the rails during the Great Depression.

This 37-year-old French pianist captures the audaciousness and wild flights of the score and plays brilliantly.

What is surprising is that it has been done with a certain audaciousness and sense of risk, not for the sake of conspicuousness.

On the road from audaciousness to acceptance, Slamdance for the moment retains its youthful irreverence.

Consider the audaciousness, variety, vitality - and sheer bounty - of the theater season just begun in Connecticut's regional playhouses.

At their most powerful, Rheims' photographs have an audaciousness which goes beyond the contrived scenarios which are presented in much of her work.

Both pieces convey the sort of polished audaciousness that marks institutionalized vanguardism globally these days.

Eisenhower, fascinated by the audaciousness of the plan, not only gave his approval, * but insisted that the operation take place at the earliest possible moment.

Grim beneath the shadow of his helm, Keyoke admired the audaciousness of the plan.

According to Leonard, St. Theresa read the same text as an illustration of Mary's audaciousness.

He was dubbed by his comrades "The Colonel" for his audaciousness in spite of his youth.

One can admire the audaciousness of the attempt, but such a tour de force seems slightly beyond Mr. Gitlin's narrative skills at present.

Carlotta has her vulnerabilities, Ruth mused, fingering the fabric of the skirt, but she cloaks them in boldness and audaciousness.

IN many ways, "Pimp My Ride" might seem to be a West Coast ode to automotive audaciousness.

And I doubt she will be amused by it, or by Leonie's audaciousness in venturing into the overworld unwatched.

Mr. Stone, a man famously drawn to audaciousness, agreed to Mr. Fox's request that he be cast in the lead group of Alexander's cavalry.

There is a nerviness and freedom in the feeling for materials.

All of that wide-eyed nerviness was on her face now.

He had lost the last vestige of his former nerviness.

With the nerviness of a stand-up comedian at a funeral, he shakes things up.

What distinguishes it is the nerviness of the stunt.

Everyone had their own way of coping, but Leon's nerviness was worrying.

He found in New York's "pace, nerviness and jumpiness" material for a play.

The gusto - the nerviness that makes his most contradictory combinations usually work - was missing completely from this show.

That nerviness was coming out in a kind of prancy skittishness.

Dodds and her peers said they were struck by the cheerful nerviness of the younger women.

It certainly explained her nerviness and tension, and in that moment I saw her in a different light.

Nerviness, absolutism and smiting enemies are seductive.

The new film will disappoint anyone who has delighted in the nerviness that has characterized the Blier work in the past.

Here, too, there is a blend of provocation and reverence, nerviness and discretion, that is distinct yet characteristic of 20th-century art.

(Gingrich set a new standard in nerviness by conducting an affair with a House staffer while leading the drive to impeach President Bill Clinton.)

Mr. Kissinger did not quite insert Mr. Ford (and therefore himself) into the second spot on the Reagan ticket, but the sheer nerviness of the attempt was breathtaking.

I thought that might get rid of some of the nerviness, and that a well-deserved equaliser was on, but the stop-start nature of the game continued, and the goal didn't come.

As much as I liked the bières de garde, I loved the taut nerviness of the saisons, which dance through the mouth with a lightness that rarely fails to refresh.

Nerviness and a compulsion to take chances eventually carry the hero to a position of power; he even changes his last name to Power to elude the feds on the track of his taxes.

Over all, and perhaps unsurprisingly, there seems to be an inverse ratio between the prominence of the museum and the nerviness of its titles' forays into wordplay, popular culture references or general touchy-feely appeal.

Mr. Bennett, swinging with easy assurance, mines every lyric for meaning, and when he really lets loose, as he does on almost every track, you can still hear the nerviness that impressed Sinatra half a century ago.

Derringer 156 Kristine Smith sat with the tense nerviness of a man who wanted with all his heart to punch out the canopy and go out over the shooters but had been ordered to go down with the demi instead.

The acoustics in the latest version are also not as bad as their reputation: for instance, the hall's renowned glare became far more mellow once its resident orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, shed the brash nerviness it had cultivated in the 1980's.

The graphic work offers plenty of evidence of the styles and compositions of Japanese prints, of the themes and suggestiveness of Symbolism, of the flatness and nerviness of Post-Impressionism and finally of the free touch of Impressionism.

In the play the young reporter is a black woman named Yvonne (played with spot-on nerviness by Erika Alexander), whose personal life, racial identity and professionalism all become entangled with her ambition when she learns - or claims she does - that a teen-age girl has committed a murder.