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
In short, without Cassavetes both New Hollywood and the recent outpouring of zero-budget independent audacities would be unimaginable.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2016
Lawrence, reserved, incorrigible, skulks about England, trying to decide whether or not to give the world his 120,000-word Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the staggering chronicle of his secret audacities and triumphs.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the vulgarities and audacities, the shifts and the doubles of this shuffling man of prey, no one need again be troubled.
From William Blake A Critical Essay by Algernon Charles Swinburne
