If you are Mary-Kate Olsen, stalked daily by a pack of paparazzi, it requires an exponentially greater amount of daring and intrepidity.
Words this potently, violently alive, and this searing in their register shifts, need to be met with a certain amount of daring and dexterity.
"I find a great many things that never make it to the big screen because they're controversial wind up on television, and done with a considerable amount of daring," Mr. Johnson told The Miami Herald in 1992.
And for a woman who proclaims that her sense of adventure is "as thin as a slice of prosciutto", she ends up engaged in a fair amount of daring activity (including herding reindeer).
Elvis Costello would later describe it as 'still the most adventurous record made in the rock medium', adding that 'there hasn't been a record with that amount of daring made since'.
Mrs. Copperfield, turning to her friend, says, "I have gone to pieces, which is a thing I have wanted to do for years … but I have my happiness, which I guard like a wolf, and I have authority now and a certain amount of daring which, if you remember correctly, I never had before".
Elvis Costello described Astral Weeks as "still the most adventurous record made in the rock medium, and there hasn't been a record with that amount of daring made since".
There was also a much praised "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," directed by Bartlett Sher, in which Count Almaviva made his first entrance from among the audience, as if he were a season-ticket holder struck with sudden inspiration, before strutting on a walkway built around the orchestra pit — a sundering of the fourth wall that amounts to daring innovation at the Met.
There was also a much praised "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," directed by Bartlett Sher, in which Count Almaviva made his first entrance from among the audience, as if he were a season-ticket holder struck with sudden inspiration, before strutting on a walkway built around the orchestra pit a sundering of the fourth wall that amounts to daring innovation at the Met.
The first of these time frames demanded toughness, determination, and close attention to detail; the second, capital and the willingness to take sizable financial risks; the third, imagination and a certain amount of technological daring.
