Sentence examples for dared to focus from inspiring English sources

Even the boldest of our American descendants of "I Vitelloni" haven't dared to focus on characters as close to middle age as these; we generally recast them as teenagers or early twentysomethings, and give them at least a fighting chance to come of age before age weighs too heavily on them.

Few dare to focus on a blank page, even if it has a gilded trim, or to imagine that a cover could be made from gros grain, with the texture of a couture dress and no sign of a title — until you find the names embossed on the gilding: "Lanvin" and "Alber Elbaz".

7. Dare to focus on you.

The audience is almost dared to listen in split focus: to try to discover the Tchaikovsky within the work's Stravinskian cloak.

He dared to think.

Worse, he dared to speak.

I dared to ask why.

I dared to dream.

They dared to dream.

Scotland dared to dream.

Previously, some had dared to challenge it.