Sentence examples for daring assertion from inspiring English sources
David Leonhardt's daring assertion in "The High Costs of Cheap Gas and Vice Versa" (column, Business Day, May 10) that high gas prices are what this country needs goes completely against general public sentiment on the issue, and for this I salute him.
He justifies his investigation with an assertion of scholarly daring – "this subject remains virtually taboo in academic circles" – and claims that his interest is less in what people think about the authorship question, more why they think it.
In remarking on the same article earlier today, Daring Fireball's John Gruber tears into Lohr's assertion that Apple's hardware business could be easily "mimicked".
On a podcast in September, Simmons took strong issue with that assertion, calling Goodell a "liar" and daring ESPN to suspend him.
Those of us who are standing on the shoulders of giants shouldn't try to wrestle with them; only giants can wrestle with giants, and adaptation, if it's any good, is no mere mark of respect but an active and dangerous contention, an assertion and self-assertion that is as brave and as daring as it is potentially catastrophic.
Kinbote's preposterous assertion that the poem "Pale Fire" was somehow inspired by his daring escape from the remote arctic kingdom of Zembla is part of a paranoid fantasy actually triggered by Shade -- from the dead.
As the book moves from the past to the future, Cebrián's mode shifts from keen particulars to broad assertions — unavoidably, perhaps, but a chapter on the media's complicity in terrorism would have benefitted from more daring and detail.
"That was pretty daring".
