Posted on 03/05/2009 4:20:35 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
temerity \tuh-MER-uh-tee\, noun
Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger; rashness.
Example sentences:
The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year.
-- John Fiske, "Washington's Great Campaign of 1776", The Atlantic, January 1889
When English merchants had the temerity to set up a trading post or 'factory' -- junior merchants were known as factors -- the Dutchmen defended their monopoly by massacring them.
-- Anthony Read and David Fisher, The Proudest Day
Drivers with the temerity to accelerate out of turns are likely to encounter torque steer, an unsettling glitch in control as the engine fights to take charge of the steering.
-- Peter Passell, "Mitsubishi Diamante: Back From Down Under", New York Times, February 23, 1997
Throughout the anti-trust trial its executives treated the courts and the US government with sneering contempt, coupled with a ratty annoyance that any public authority should have the temerity to interfere in its business.
-- John Naughton, "Gates must not win at monopoly", The Observer, October 28, 2001
Etymology:
Temerity comes from Latin temeritas, from temere, blindly, rashly.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
My brain isn’t working 100% today, I was thinking that tumerity was a form of tumid/tumescent, but then I re-read the word, and it’s temerity. UGH. No good lines come to mind for the real word. UNNNGH.
you know, no one is given a dang GIRL SCOUT BADGE for having a traditional birth, so what in the world is the reason to endure unnecessary pain??
you are fixating on your organ this AM! ROR!
Funny!
And that is why I believe it had to have been a man who came up with the idea!!!
Obama lacks not for temerity, only opportunity. Let’s see if he can bring back The Soviet Union and then lose to them.
LOL, saw that one, she’s no wimp!
Keith, according to former GF’s, lacks tumerity.
OK, so what if I made up the word, it fits.
She slices, she dices. She does with sarcasm what others can only do with knives.
i saw her on glenn beck this week and liked her better than i have in awhile. she was not as self aggrandizing as she has been in the past. and here too, she went to Cornell, but doesn’t mention it in the article, which makes her dissing of olbs that much better and more effective.
Relax, Keith. Now you can let people like you for you.Bwaahhahahahah.
this made me roar out loud.
baby looks just like the silky pony but has her mom’s eyes.
i send these things daily to the obam sheeple that i talk to. He wants to cover his eyes and ears and points to the polls where obams is sky high, LOL!! i said, gee, i am so glad you can comfort yourself that obams is still wildly popular while your retirement fund is circling the bowl!
Obama’s polls are about where W’s were at the same time into his presidency and below where Carter’s were. People must have been really hopeful back in 1977. Suckers.
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