The last chapters of "Plowing the Dark" make a daring effort to restore equilibrium.
The assault was a daring effort to help defeat the Nazis that would ultimately lead to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans.
For the last three years, Johan de Nysschen has led a daring effort to revive Cadillac, the storied but tarnished luxury-car brand of General Motors.
But inside Pomaire, a Chilean restaurant on West 46th Street, toasts had an altogether different meaning as patrons gathered, transfixed by the evening's main attraction: the daring effort to rescue 33 men trapped inside a mine in northern Chile.
Mr. Walker's credits also include "Fight Club," a genuinely daring effort to make sense of the violent impulses of buttoned-down young men, and to plumb those dangers found at the nexus of popular culture and political fanaticism.
Nott, for his part, trained almost every trauma surgeon on the opposition side of Aleppo, as part of a daring effort to spread medical knowledge as the government strives to eradicate it.
But Damasio, while ever ready to salute his predecessors and peers, is wholly his own man, and The Strange Order of Things is a fresh and daring effort to identify the true spring and source of human being – of the being, in fact, of all living things – namely feeling.
I'm a bit disappointed that two of Ms. Streisand's more daring efforts are not available to stream legally: "The Owl and the Pussycat," (1970), in which she shook up her image by playing a salty-mouthed prostitute, and "Sandbox," a women's liberation comedy from 1972 featuring Ms. Streisand as a housewife whose boredom yields an elaborate fantasy life.
From now on, whenever you pick up a household product, imagine the struggles of a business, from the engineers and the factory workers to the advertisers and the attorneys whose tense and daring efforts brought it into being.
In the days that followed their daring efforts, hard times have fallen on Ms. Nash and her daughter, both of whom are employed by the same home health care company in Brooklyn as private-duty nurses.
