How to Use effrontery in a Sentence

effrontery

noun

• What Negro actor at this stage in the world’s history could dare bring to the role the effrontery Olivier does?
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Oct. 2021
• Others simply denounced Schutz for the effrontery of addressing the subject of black trauma.
  — Richard Cohen, The Mercury News, 5 June 2017
• The weather in Springfield was gusty and frigid, and most people wore parkas and winter hats, but some of the younger attendees, hopped up on adrenaline and public displays of effrontery, got by with hoodies and track pants.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2020
• Further, older workers, accustomed to the parental role, may reflexively offer advice to younger bosses who chafe at the effrontery.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017
• What wrapped it all together was the insistence that Obama’s effrontery in bypassing Congress was the primary issue.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 5 Sep. 2017
• Thompson, skilled at both effrontery and anxiety, mines that tension brilliantly.
  — Justin Changfilm Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
• Saul’s effrontery has long driven fastidious souls from galleries, including me years ago.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• In an act of intellectual effrontery that recalls Karl Marx, Wengrow and Graeber use this insight to overthrow all existing dogma about humankind—to reimagine, in short, everything.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
• The first major payoff, like subsequent depredations, was both complex—involving a thicket of shell corporations and offshore money-laundering entrepôts—and crude, in view of the fraud’s effrontery.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• The book reaches a pitch of patronizing superiority in the sections about Mr. Akhtar’s father, an award-winning cardiologist who briefly treated Donald Trump and then had the effrontery to vote for his former patient in the 2016 election.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• Bergman, who romanced his leading ladies and strip mined his personal demons for material, was hardly the least self-involved of European auteurs, and Hansen-Løve has fittingly responded with her own teasing display of meta-effrontery.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• His crowded, unmasked political rallies were reckless acts of effrontery.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• In an effrontery to democracy, the Supreme Court just legalized partisan gerrymandering.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 13 July 2019

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