Assertion: great boldness | /r/HasProperty | without some absurdity
Facets:
value: seldom
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Francis Bacon, an early advocate of trial and error followed by observation to gain knowledge, once said: "great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
text: nay, and to the vulgar also boldness hath somewhat of the ridiculous: for if absurdity be the subject of laughter, doubt you not but great boldness is seldom without some absurdity; especially it is a sport to see when a bold fellow is out of countenance, for that puts his face into a most shrunken and wooden posture as needs it must; for in bashfulness the spirits do a little go and come; but with bold men, upon like occasion, they stand at a stay; like a stale at chess, where it is no mate, but yet the game cannot stir: but this last were fitter for a satire than for a serious observation.