It was while the concept was ending its long period of gestation that Buntine delivered a daring challenge – "I was foolish enough to say: 'If you find me a stadium, I'll create a competition'".
His eyes are dangerous, daring, challenging, a little damaged, yet somehow still impeccably polite, but still searing, and filled with a whole mess of problems that I'm sure would not be tedious to untangle.
And even in a city where that vividly pictorial Handel classic is interpreted in a rich variety of styles, this year's first major entry was a daring challenge to the current orthodoxy, which places the highest value on readings by period-instrument ensembles and chamber choirs.
Telling the story of Fr Rodrigues, a Portuguese Jesuit who follows his missionary vocation to Japan at a time of violent religious persecution, Silence is a compelling historical fiction, a potent distillation of the paradoxes and ambiguities of faith and, from a Christian author, a daring challenge to religious orthodoxy.
Ms. Hossaini explained: "UNICEF and WHO took a bold step to conduct a nationwide immunization campaign in Somalia – a daring challenge, both in terms of logistics as well as in the face of great insecurity, in a fragmented society.
Supporters of General Fonseka said he was arrested for daring to challenge the president's rule.
His offense was daring to challenge the validity of the 2009 election.
But there are some women daring to challenge the idea that breast is best.
She also appeared onstage in daring costumes, challenging traditional concepts of stage propriety and classical art.
Greece has paid the price of daring to challenge the neoliberal holy writ.
But what's beyond debate is the enduring appeal of the daring criminal challenging the establishment with criminal endeavour.
