temerity

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• Should the caller have the temerity to ask where they were, the phone call would be quietly ended.

• Some time ago, I wrote a blog post in which I had the temerity to question the validity of chronic Lyme diagnoses.

• Stalin-worship aside, he had the temerity to tell truths about Hitler and his war machine that many others preferred to ignore.

• Just two weeks ago, The New York Times Magazine had the temerity to ask, “Has the Libertarian Moment Finally Arrived?”

• Nor is it where the gunman then viciously pistol whips his victim repeatedly for having the temerity not to die.

• Who would have the temerity, in such an hour, to oppose the affectionate demonstration?

• The temerity of Westmacott, whose nature was notoriously timid, had surprised him for a moment.

• And his friends gasped at his temerity and trembled for him, not knowing what grounds he had for counting himself unassailable.

• And he would cower in the background blushing his absurd little blushes at his second-hand temerity.

• Beginning an uncouth lad, he became a sea fighter whose temerity outranks all.