Sentence examples for a less daring from inspiring English sources

On that occasion, by Bernstein's wish, the clarion call "Freude" ("joy") in the choral finale was replaced by "Freiheit" ("freedom"), perhaps a less daring liberty than it seems.

In a less daring novel, Helene would marry Carl, Martha would clean up her act, and the two sisters would carve out separately strong futures while their mother would somehow miraculously recover her wits.

Peter Sis is a more rigorous draftsman than Ludwig Bemelmans was -- his pictures are meticulously crosshatched and full of carefully scaled architectural detail -- and a less daring storyteller, but "Madlenka," with its visual whimsy and its clever mixture of navete and sophistication, delighted the "Madeline" lovers in my house.

The PocketBand's design is a bit less daring but a bit more functional.

"The Marriage Plot" revolves around a love triangle that develops among Madeleine and two men — the charismatic Leonard and the adoring Mitchell — and it turns out to be a lot less dramatic and a lot less daring than the author's earlier novels.

Now that I'm a boring old grown-up, I've become a little less daring than in my agile, devil-may-care youth.

But over all, it seems that daily acts of derring-do — moving about the snarling, breakneck streets of the city — now require a bit less daring.

Harry's son Norman was an altogether blander, less daring character than his father.

For the less daring, a short helicopter ride may be the best way to experience the land of a thousand hills.

It has to be conceded there's a fair bit of sugar in the mix, and finally it turns out to be an oddly conservative picture, less daring and perhaps less romantic than we were promised.

Arguably, curious explorers were at a competitive advantage over their less daring peers.