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Перевод: temerity

[существительное]
безрассудная смелость; безрассудство; опрометчивость

Тезаурус:

1. A scientist who had the temerity to ask at Philadelphia for one was severely reproved.
2. Animal Behaviour : Ecology and Evolution by C. J. Barnard tries to do this and can be admired for its temerity and useful list of 344 references.
3. Many, it is true, shouted enthusiastically that we were right and to be congratulated, but many others were up in arms at our intrepid temerity.
4. Poor average man, cast into outer darkness because he likes what he likes and has the temerity to prefer a little diverting decoration to soulless functionalism.
5. As for Brian Redhead, a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy, "His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister."
6. IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher, Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her, but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear, on his argument, to be gravely unbalanced.
7. Even the knighthood was not the honour it might seem, for James I had instigated the practice of charging for knighthoods, and Charles I had compounded his profit by fining those who had the temerity to refuse.
8. Stendhal, on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years, claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world, since which time no one has felt the need, or had the temerity, to fault his judgement.
9. The coachman reined in his horses, leapt into the road and, seizing the sprawling cyclist, beat him soundly with his whip for having the temerity to overtake the coach.
10. Even I can see that Mr Kinnock knows nothing about economics; as little as did Sir Alec Douglas-Home, who at least never had the temerity to pretend that he did.
11. One constable had the temerity to state that we had had nothing to eat since 9.30 a.m.
12. As the lift stopped at our floor Ira Dilworth gave me a dark look, admonishing my temerity.
13. Only a few days later, in evidence to a parliamentary committee, he had the temerity to recommend controls on mortgage lending - in direct conflict with present government policy.