audacity
noun
boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
audacities
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pluralof audacity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Watching “The Goldfinch,” I found myself fantasizing about one of the possible audacities that the movie, absent Theo’s unifying voice, could have hazarded.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019
Besides a light show with a simulated jungle made by hundreds of floor-to-ceiling twisty elastic bands, their presentation didn’t rely on expensive mechanical audacities; it resorted to what the program described as an “analogue inventiveness.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2016
While watching “Diary of a Teenage Girl,” I tried to imagine the superb movie that it nearly is, the one that Minnie’s passionate audacities could have sparked.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 7, 2015
An astounded Paris critic summed up his achievement: "Charles Ives seems to have created, before the Sacre du Printemps, a style which by its audacities places its author among the pioneers of music."
From Time Magazine Archive
His technique was precise, careful, and rather laborious, without any happy audacities of brushwork, and without any display of cleverness for its own sake.
From Leighton by A. Lys Baldry
