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Simple predicative utterances employing the so-called thick moral terms such as 'brave' and 'honest' can then be thought of as performing this same speech act while at the same time predicating the natural property (say fearlessness in the case of bravery) which common usage of the term seems to track.
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In any case, this discussion of bravery (and whether I was, in fact, brave at all) resurfaced this past weekend when I was very lucky to attend the Summit Series in Miami, FL.
Plutarch suggests this specifically in the case of anger becoming bravery (De ira fr. 148 Sandbach).
In my case it took bravery – the bravery of a surgeon who said: "If that is how you want to interact, then let's do it".
I'd imagine that all that wide open space is exactly what an agoraphobic fears most; in which case it is an act of bravery, and indeed of artistic honesty and good faith, which has made her confront and make use of her deepest fears.
That she takes to the streets every day at 7 a.m. despite a severe case of agoraphobia suggests a bravery behind her choice of work.
A spokesperson for the NSPCC child protection charity said the victims in the case had shown "a great deal of bravery to speak out, particularly the young girl who walked into a police station after seeing coverage of other child abuse cases in the Rochdale area and told detectives her grim story.
And in each case, that bravery seemed born of an almost foolhardy contempt for danger.
18-year-old Gavin Grimm has been a portrait of bravery for so much of his high school experience, leading a case all the way to the United States Supreme Court, in a case litigated by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The parents have "a kind of bravery in their lives that isn't bravery at all.
My lack of bravery still disgusts me.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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