1 He had pushed his way by sheer instinct and sheerer effrontery on to the stage and to the front of it, with his plays.
2 His sad-dog sort of extinguished self persisted all the evening, though through it Clifford felt the inner effrontery.
3 That indestructible, inward effrontery in the meagre fellow was what made men so down on Michaelis.
4 The physical desire he did not satisfy in her; he was always come and finished so quickly, then shrinking down on her breast, and recovering somewhat his effrontery while she lay dazed, disappointed, lost.
5 And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII—THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM... 6 It consisted of enormous voids of stone catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental effrontery.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS 7 All this was of such incredible immodesty, of such monstrous effrontery, that d'Artagnan could scarcely believe what he saw or what he heard.
8 And yet, when I had the effrontery to make you this same proposition, you turned me out of the house.
9 He stood close to her, and the effrontery in his eyes repelled the old, vanishing self in her, yet drew all her awakening sensuousness.
10 This fellow, turning traitor, and accusing Epicharis to Nero, so stoutly did she deny the charge, that Nero, confounded by her effrontery, let her go.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.