Sample Sentences fortemerity (auto-selected)
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Big God howled like a hot wind... Then Small God (cozy and contained, private and limited) came away cauterized, laughing numbly at his own temerity. (source)temerity = confidence or courage
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The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe's positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him. (source)
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Miss Crocker echoed, appalled by such temerity.† (source)
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Whether they watched this parade with pride, temerity, or shame, nobody came forward to interrupt it.† (source)
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No one would ever have the temerity to think of Gerald O'Hara as a ridiculous little figure.† (source)
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His temerity, his effrontery, his American facking New York nerve.† (source)
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But Jose Arcadio Segundo, in an unforeseen burst of temerity, stubbornly kept on with the project.† (source)
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Elva had not had the temerity to laugh then, but she remained obdurate in her refusal.† (source)
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Delante, known to all as "Head" because he helps run one of the school's largest gangs, the Trenton Park Crew, is short and stocky, with caramel-light skin, hazel eyes, and the temerity of a killer.† (source)
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Having achieved my object — that of forcing at least one of the wolves to take cognizance of my existence — I now began to wonder if, in my ignorance, I had transgressed some unknown wolf law of major importance and would have to pay for my temerity.† (source)
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Charleston had the democratic good will to look down on all of its suburbs, but it reserved a very special contempt for the industrial city of North Charleston, which not only had the temerity to be extraordinarily common and depressing but had also borrowed the sacred name.† (source)
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No one even knew Major — de Coverley's first name, because no one had ever had the temerity to ask him.† (source)
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I reveal infiltrators in your midst and save you from mortal peril and yet some still retain the temerity to doubt.† (source)
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He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: 'Please, sir, I want some more.'† (source)
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'I looked up again at the crouching white shape, and the full temerity of my voyage came suddenly upon me.† (source)
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Cumulus even had the temerity to wave Root's sarcasm aside.† (source)
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