DeCicco argued that Gotti's boldness, intelligence, and charisma made him well-suited to be " a good boss " and he convinced Gravano to give Gotti a chance.

Among English speakers, the use of umlaut marks and other diacritics with a blackletter style typeface is a form of foreign branding intended to give a band's logo a Teutonic quality — denoting stereotypes of boldness and strength commonly attributed to ancient northern European peoples, such as the Vikings and Goths.

According to the Moscow News, " Putin's reported affection for the Sobchak family is widely believed to give Ksenia Sobchak a protected status, which may also explain her boldness ", such as her encounter in October 2011 with Vasily Yakemenko, the controversial leader of the pro-Kremlin Nashi youth movement, when she reprimanded him for eating at an expensive restaurant in Moscow and published a video of the encounter on the internet.

The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".

The first of these was a new boldness in expressing his political beliefs.

It was at Chalcedon that the emperor, through the Imperial delegates, enforced harsh disciplinary measures against Pope Dioscorus in response to his boldness.

His success was based on his ability to attack, his tactical boldness and his ability to extract more performance from his players, in particular Davidson.

Two years later at a conference in Italy, he made the same claims about their ambitions, but with a subtle change ; now he claimed that the reason for their boldness was their development of new space-based weapons.

Frederick was at first in a position of great peril, but his army changed front in the face of the advancing enemy and by its boldness and tenacity won a remarkable victory ( 30 Sept .).

The effect on Matisse's art was a new boldness in the use of intense, unmodulated colour, as in L ' Atelier Rouge ( 1911 ).

The boldness of his demands for reform offended the Prussian government, and in the summer in 1819 he was arrested and his papers confiscated.

Still, Gwalchmei was clearly a traditional figure ; other early references to him include the Welsh Triads ; the Englynion y Beddau ( Stanzas of the Graves ), which lists the site of his grave ; the Trioedd y Meirch ( Triads of the Horses ), which praises his horse Keincaled ( known as Gringolet to later French authors ); and Cynddelw's elegy for Owain Gwynedd, which compares Owain's boldness to that of Gwalchmei.

Maureen Paley said, " The thing that came out of the YBA generation was boldness, a belief that you can do anything.

The prancing horse was the symbol on Italian World War I ace Francesco Baracca's fighter plane, and became the logo of Ferrari after the fallen ace's parents, good friends with Enzo Ferrari, asked him to continue his tradition of sportsmanship, gallantry and boldness.

Granada's boldness was seen in ambitious documentaries such as Seven Up!

His brilliance was widely recognised, and his knack for the sensational, as well as his academic boldness ( which some considered to be irresponsible carelessness ), sustained his reputation.

In his interrogation of two Phichai officials, Azaewunky referred to Chao Phraya Surasih who was the Governor of Phisanulok as " Phraya Sua " or " The Tiger ", thus testifying to his boldness and decisiveness.

The ultramontane party was roused by their boldness, and Montalembert and his two friends then left for Rome.

It was this book which first put before the world, with Schwegler's characteristic boldness and clearness, the results of the critical labours of the earlier representatives of the new Tübingen school in relation to the first development of Christianity.

The essay immediately caused a stir because of its boldness and because it was not anonymous.

Lange valued Douglas ’ s doggedness in the government ’ s first term of office, when ‘ urgency was needed and boldness was at a premium ’, but believed he was limited by an inability to accept or understand interests that were not in tune with his.

Dr Fellowes, author of the Religion of the Universe, etc., was given over to Fonblanque's complete control ; and for a period of seventeen years ( 1830 to 1847 ) he not only sustained the high character for political independence and literary ability which the Examiner had gained under the direction of Leigh Hunt and his brother, John Hunt, but even compelled his political opponents to acknowledge a certain delight in the boldness and brightness of the wit directed against themselves.

But Cropsey was best known for his lavish use of color and, as a first-generation member from the Hudson River School, painted autumn landscapes that startled viewers with their boldness and brilliance.

The Observer newspaper's reviewer, Kathryn Flett, said that " the boldness of the subject matter was complemented by a script of considerable depth and humour, and there were performances of Bafta-grabbing brilliance from everybody involved ".

Despite his boldness, Howie was a bit unnerved by scary stories at first, then outgrew it after the pets ' adventures in Bunnicula Strikes Again!

Of the May 1899 concert at St. James's Hall, London, The Musical Times reviewer remarked on the rawness of some of the music, but praised the " boldness of conception and virile strength that command and hold attention.

He worked almost exclusively in bronze, and though he made some statues of gods and heroes, his fame rested principally upon his representations of athletes, in which he made a revolution, according to commentators in Antiquity, by introducing greater boldness of pose and a more perfect rhythm, subordinating the parts to the whole.

Unlike show hunter classes, which reward calmness and style, jumper classes require boldness, scope, power, accuracy, and control ; speed also is a factor, especially in jump-off courses and speed classes ( when time counts even in the first round ).

However true the facts may be, Cato successfully proved himself by his eloquence, and by the production of detailed financial accounts, against the attacks made on his behavior while consul ; and the existing fragments of the speeches, ( or the same speech under different names ), made after his return, attest the strength and boldness of his arguments.

Haupt's critical work is distinguished by a combination of the most painstaking investigation with bold conjecture ; his oft-cited dictum that " If the sense requires it, I am prepared to write Constantinopolitanus where the MSS have the monosyllabic interjection o " well expresses this boldness.

* bravura: boldness ; as in con bravura, boldly

A low and little forehead denoted magnanimity, boldness, and confidence ; a fleshy and wrinkle-free forehead, litigiousness, vanity, deceit, and contentiousness ; a sharp forehead, weakness and fickleness ; a wrinkled forehead, great spirit and wit yet poor fortune ; a round forehead, virtue and good understanding ; a full large forehead, boldness, malice, boundary issues, and high spirit ; and a long high forehead, honesty, weakness, simplicity, and poor fortune.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ ; and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: to the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: in whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

The fighting qualities of the sea-going Cossacks were even admired in the Ottoman chronicles: " One can safely say that in the entire world one cannot find a people more careless for their lives or having less fear of death ; persons versed in navigation assert that because of their skill and boldness in naval battles these bands are more dangerous than any other enemy.

Underneath those beams there lay what was considered a boldness, meaning a free space of 74 meters between the pillars and underneath the beams ; the largest in the world at that time.

Due to the simplicity and boldness of their designs, many of their earlier logos are still in use today.

" In his death " said the journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers " the profession has to lament one who, though perhaps carrying his works nearer to the margin of safety than many others would have done, displayed boldness, originality and resource in a high degree, and bore a distinguished part in the later development of the railway system ".

A typical example of personified boldness is often found by many specialists in the mythological character of Philemon

These touches often succeed through their sheer boldness, as well as the comedy that runs through many of his most ambitious works.

As specimens of modern magnificence and substantial comfort, the latter class of edifices may be admirable ; but we are bound to acknowledge, that in boldness and splendour of design, they cannot assimilate to the labours of antiquity, much of whose stupendous character is to this day preserved in many series of interesting ruins :—

He executed many other altar-pieces, all characterized by boldness and freedom in design, and by the rich warm colouring which has acquired for him the surname of " the Spanish Titian.