If you're caught off balance by a particularly audacious act or challenge you must bounce back and not let on how you feel inside.
They were plotting one of the most audacious acts of piracy in history.
In many baseball towns, that would have been taken as an audacious act of war.
Ray seized the opportunity the other's audacious act had given him.
You brought this war to our shores and will pay the price for that audacious act.
It was a chain of audacious acts, and unheard-of disasters.
The more audacious first act has the antic energy of a broadside inspired by the obituary pages.
Though based on scrupulous scholarship, this is an audacious creative act, and the results are engrossing.
"Now we shall establish the good element," I continued, as if this audacious and amazing act were routine.
The psychological gain from this audacious act was much more than the material one.