Sentence examples for daring figure from inspiring English sources

Her even-handedness made her something of a daring figure in the chorus of exhortation.

But the sounds he draws from the instrument, along with his deep voice and his playful but subtly cutting lyrics about growing up in an Islamic state, have made Mohsen Namjoo the most controversial, and certainly the most daring, figure in Persian music today.

When the series screens its gorgeous fresh print of "Marienbad" later this month, New Yorkers may once again marvel at the formal innovation and narrative freedom that once made Mr. Resnais seem the most artful and daring figure of the French New Wave.

Among them are some of literature's more complicated and daring figures: the likes of Orwell, Thomas De Quincey, Jack London and John Clare.

In her recent study of Gersonides' science, Glasner notes that Gersonides "stands out as one of the more creative and daring figures in the medieval west" (Glaser, 2015, p 13).

For novelty and daring, the figure to whom Andrée was most often compared was Columbus.

For his many admirers, he is a daring, prophetic figure who anatomises with honesty life in the contemporary west and exposes the lot of the millions of mediocre, grafting individuals whose role in our financial and emotional economies is usually ignored.

In the central two, slightly taller than the other six and painted after them, the lines thicken and leap and twist exuberantly, daring you to figure out how they were made.

I'm thinking about the Opah as I depart, a lone figure daring a shortcut down the North drive to the security entrance for press.

The daring display of figure composition, the landscape elements and personal drama also appear in the great unfinished masterpiece, the Adoration of the Magi, a commission from the Monks of San Donato a Scopeto.

Tackling one such historical figure is daring; two is audacious.