Example sentences for: audacity

How can you use “audacity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Ballard's novel Crash --the movie was banned in England and won a special prize at Cannes for "originality, daring, and audacity"--it fails to shock.

  • If anyone was not in a position to give us insight into the corrosive vacuity of our culture it's Allen, who's so out of touch that he reportedly cast Kirstie Allen in his last film, Deconstructing Harry , without ever having seen Cheers , and whose idea of sexual audacity in his new one is to have a hooker (Bebe Neuwirth, another actress he never saw on Cheers ) teach a repressed hysteric (Judy Davis) how to give a blow job by sliding a banana in and out of her mouth.

  • South Park is a reminder of the great moments from the old Henry Beard/Doug Kenny National Lampoon , where the audacity and smarts still leave you tearing up helplessly when you try to explain what you love about the work months later.

  • The emotion aroused by the closure of Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport Sunday night (to be replaced by the "modernistic marvel" of the huge new airport of Chek Lap Kok) came "close to rivalling the events of a year ago," when the former British colony was restored to China, according to the SCMP . Referring to the old airport's hair-raising, rooftop-scraping approach and its environmental deficiencies, the newspaper said that "the sheer audacity and improbability of the place so perfectly captured the spirit of the city that Hong Kong will seem lost without it."

  • The notice that a nation other than France could produce an effervescent wine and then have the audacity to label it champagne was the basis for a lawsuit rather than an etymological inquiry.


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