Jerry Saltz

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.

American Critic

Michael Wolff

Galling for left-wing activists and the mainstream media's bottom line - in its way as galling as Fox's daily agitprop - was the fact that liberal media did not have the talent or the savvy or the passion to match conservative media's success.

American Author

Frances O'Grady

The implication that women work for pin money and can manage on a worse pension, presumably by relying on husbands, riles. But even more galling for women is that few government ministers seem to even appreciate the value of the work they do.

British Activist

Sade Adu

From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

Nigerian Musician

Rose Leslie

I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine it being so much fun but I don't think I've quite got the gall to go ahead just yet.

Scottish Actress

J. D. Salinger

He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

American Novelist

Jean Kerr

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

American Playwright

Joe E. Lewis

They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.

American Comedian

Winston Marshall

We're a pretty emotional bunch. You know, someone doesn't say hello to you one day and you're like, 'I cannot believe the gall!

British Musician

John Locke

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

English Philosopher

Implying disrespect or insult; often used to criticize someone's boldness.

Negative Connotation

'Gall' suggests nerve or boldness in a negative light, similar to 'audacity' but ruder.

Related to Nerve

Suggests a challenging or insolent attitude that can provoke confrontation.

Confrontational

Refers to skin aggravation typically from uncomfortable clothing or movement.

Friction Caused

Prevention of galls can include using protective clothing or padding.

Protection Needed

These are usually round, abnormal protrusions on plants, not to be confused with fruit.

Plant Abnormality

Many galls on plants are formed due to insects laying eggs, not disease.

Insect Induced

Gall or bile aids in the digestion of fats, produced by the liver.

Digestive Fluid

The use of 'gall' for bile is more formal and less common than 'bile' in everyday language.

Slightly Formal

 when we start to apply force to this lift we're gonna peel it apart right there and that's where the potential contamination is gonna be coming from right out inside that crack getting really close to seeing this thing flying out if it comes up crooked it could scrape metal off the blade carriers what they call galling I can actually see

Nuclear Plant Breakdown...

 me okay and okay if you don't feel comfortable talking me now I'm gonna give you a card it's yourself in life I am I am wearing my uniform I understand and yeah something's like I started looking around we start talking about gall bladder nobody says anything

Bear Organ Trafficking PIPE...

 Is there really nothing good or bad? Is it really the case that gall bladder surgery and a trip to Paris are just the same thing? That seems like a one-question IQ test. They can't be exactly the same. In more turgid prose, but closer to the truth,

Why are we happy? Why...

 that was common throughout Europe. Blood, in either liquid or powdered form, was used to treat epilepsy, while human liver, gall stones, oil distilled from human brains, and pulverized hearts were popular medical concoctions. In China,

A brief history of...

 working together to perform the same job, we then call it an organ system. Take the digestive system, for example. It's made up of a mouth, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gall bladder, small intestine, and large intestine,

Making sense of how life...

 just hope they don't get caught in the crossfire, and meanwhile, more people using more drugs than ever. It's my country's history with alcohol prohibition and Al Capone, times 50. Which is why it's particularly galling to me

Ethan Nadelmann: Why we...

 and my aunt is showing me where she keeps her expensive dried seafood goods like fish water and manta ray gills I had I had no idea that she had these things she starts showing me other things she had she had cow gall stone

Compelling Models for...

 this to me huh soon as I take it free cannot be but I am pigeon liver and lack gall to make oppression bitter or ere this i should have fatted all the region kites with this slave's awful bloody body villain

Ladies and gentlemen,...

 this tiny insect scarcely bigger than a mosquito is one of these gall wasps there are lots of them flying around the earth flowers most of the flowers by now have been pollinated and are about to

Life of Insects PIPE...

 possible the water it may be their only chance trooper galls only lead is the last known location of the hunters campsite the family had given us some initial coordinates to go to

Gall

Negative Connotation

Related to Nerve

Confrontational

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