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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Terror seized me, a horror of my temerity.† (source)
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His temerity, his effrontery, his American facking New York nerve.† (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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But Jose Arcadio Segundo, in an unforeseen burst of temerity, stubbornly kept on with the project.† (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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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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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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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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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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Cursing his temerity, his heart sinking at the thought of finding himself at any moment face to face with the Emperor and being put to shame and arrested in his presence, fully alive now to the impropriety of his conduct and repenting of it, Rostov, with downcast eyes, was making his way out of the house through the brilliant suite when a familiar voice called him and a hand detained him.† (source)
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She waited till the hand of the watch had passed the third minute, in growing indignation that he should have the temerity to remain idle when he should know by now her rule that no one should exceed the allowed one-minute pause.† (source)
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