However, these strugglers, so infrequent in the work of Andreyev, have, in spite of all, something sickly and savage in them; instead of real fighting courage, they possess only extreme audaciousness, mystical rapture, or nervous exaltation.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
Now love is not affection or friendship, yet they are ofttimes mistaken, one for the other, for it so happens that the friendship, which is akin to conjugal affection, is in many instances pre-nuptial in its development-a token, I take it, of the higher evolution of the human, an audaciousness which dares to shake off the blind passion and evade nature's trick as man evaded when he harnessed steam and rested his feet.
"The Kempton-Wace Letters"
Jack London Anna Strunsky
Those who were present would have punished this audaciousness on the spot.
"Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)"
James Athearn Jones