(noun) unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition; rashness recklessness / (noun) a rash or reckless act
She was scared by her own temerity
when life has the temerity to imitate literature
Too giddy with temerity to eat
It takes considerable temerity to sit atop a Bantustan with immense military might, suffocating Gaza, sunbathing in Tel Aviv, living in the stolen homes of refugees, and then to play the victim
Democratic power brokers bewailed the bald temerity of a Sanders campaign