All 3 Uses of
audacious
in
The Fountainhead
- The host, on this Sunday afternoon, wore a dark gray suit, correct as a uniform, and bedroom slippers of black patent leather trimmed with red; the slippers mocked the severe elegance of the suit, yet completed the elegance as an audacious anticlimax.†
Chpt 2.4
- It will attract attention—but only to the immense audacity of Mr. Roark's conceit.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- The emotions it suggests are of a different nature: arrogance, audacity, defiance, self-exaltation.†
Chpt 2.12
Definition:
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(audacious) bold and daring (inclined to take risks) -- especially in violating social convention in a manner that could offend others