Word: brazen
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...hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, then furtiveness is the true outlaw's salute to the force of law-and-order. The red-light runner, however, shows no respect whatever for the social rules, and society cannot help being harmed by any repetitious and brazen display of contempt for the fundamentals of order...
Knight Rider may demonstrate a certain brazen, even desperate, retooling of stock elements that have already become television cliches. Remington Steele (NBC, Fridays, 10 p.m. E.S.T.), on the face of it, hardly seems more promising. But on prolonged acquaintance, it shows every sign of being the brightest, freshest television caper since Columbo. Laura Holt (Stephanie Zimbalist) is an ambitious, adventure-hungry private eye whose phone never rang until she invented a partner who was, naturally, male (she got his name from marrying an electric shaver to a football team) and who would nominally solve all her cases. Clients flocked. Then...
Lorean as a driven man who could not face the failure of his enterprise, a desperate man who had turned to the lucrative drug trade in a brazen attempt to save his crumbling company...
...went. But Costello's brazen contention that the only emotions he could feel were revenge and guilt quickly became a self-fulfilling prophecy. Forty-five minute, "fuck-the-world" concerts were the rule; there were no exceptions. E.C. refused for a time to talk to the press, and he slid inexorably towards that fateful night in Columbus with Stills bandmembers...
...Public Service Building in Portland, Ore., is nearly completed-on schedule and within budget. Yet the storm of controversy the building has raised is likely to rage long after its official dedication on Oct. 2. The issue is style. With this one brazen gesture, the architect, Michael Graves, 48, attempts to supplant modern architecture's heroic industrialism with postmodern architecture's heroic . . . what? Perhaps it might be called Pop surrealism that uses classic design elements the way Walt Disney cartoons used the physiognomy of a rodent to create Mickey Mouse. For all its playfulness, however, the Portland Building...