bold
He accused the team of lacking the boldness to win a World Cup.
Rooney was full of the confidence and boldness of youth.
Investors are applauding the speed and boldness with which the CEO faced the crisis.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Bravery
audaciousness
audacity
backbone
balls
bell
bell the catidiom
daring
derring-do
Dutch courage
fearlessness
fighting spirit
grit
gut
heart
intestinal fortitude
liquid courage
nerve
pluck
swash
valiance

Examples of boldness

boldness
In sacrificing marriages deemed undesirable and striving for economic independence, women frequently displayed a ' waywardness ' and boldness that signified their growing strength and resilience.
But the intellectual boldness of the enterprise commands admiration.
On order were both the boldness to expound a partial perspective and the discipline to acknowledge limitations articulated by others.
In the footnote quarrels of the modal theory between 1905 and 1910, scholarly boldness in defence of patriotic honour swelled as the print shrank.
What you won in boldness, was lost in thematic scope.
Moreover, they reported a new boldness to participate in activities, and revived enthusiasm to try harder and not give in.
To date, the timing and boldness of market reform have been extensively studied, but remain largely unexplained by conventional paradigms.
Her suggestion, welcome for its boldness and blunt provocativeness, raises issues that need discussing.
I ask for this most earnestly, in the belief that you will approve and look favourably on the boldness of my request.
In other words, boldness is ultimately tempered by tradition and therefore the inclusion of feminist critiques could be viewed as too audacious.
This article charts a middle course between excessive caution on the one hand and boldness on the other.
It would not be unfair to say that the outlook embodied in these two books is ambitious, while at the same time lacking boldness.
But the boldness of his gestures does.
The nobles dissipated their large fortunes as they competed with each other, not in terms of the number and boldness of their retainers, but in a more civilized fashion.
Even the mere investor in such enterprises was given the name adventurer, and the related word venture has come to have implications both of boldness and of commerce.
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