Sentence examples for a daring break from inspiring English sources

Strange days when an hour of topical comedy represents a daring break from the norm.

In the book, Mr. Turnage recounted his life at the hands of brutal owners, his attempts to escape and finally a daring break for liberty.

Built to meet growing demand for more efficient cars and federal regulations mandating higher fuel economy, the X-cars represented a daring break from Detroit engineering conventions of the time.

Following a failed attempt to link up, on 18 April, the defenders at "Huguette 6" made a daring break out, but only a few managed to make it to French lines.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison break he organized for three opponents of the Taliban government in 1999.

The story, with its mixture of the homespun and the philosophical, was always going to be difficult to adapt, in part because while there is plenty of action (kidnapping, murder, and in the novel at least, a daring prison break), it takes up only a few pages in the book, which is otherwise devoted to gentler questions and pursuits.

ATHENS — For the second time in nearly three years, two of Greece's most infamous criminals staged a daring prison break on Sunday from the nation's maximum-security penitentiary, fooling guards with a Hollywood-style helicopter getaway nearly identical to their first escape.

"Billy Lynn" is worth a watch for anyone who wants to see a daring director break new ground.

Alan Wright: Perilous escape from terrorists Alan Wright yesterday described his daring break for freedom from the In Amenas compound.

Romney, the cautious consultant, is pivoting to stress his corporate competence, and is rebranding himself as an Obama-esque change agent, but he will never make the sort of daring break that independent voters will demand if they are going to give the G.O.P. another look.

A corrections official gone bad (Morris Chestnut) stages a -- sigh -- daring break-in to force a death-row inmate, Lester Bruce Weitzz), to reveal where he has hidden $200 million in gold before his impending execution.