Miller opted to represent himself throughout the trial and used the platform to engage in a series of deranged racist diatribes, essentially daring the jury to sentence him to death.
And the humor is deadpan, as though the sentences were daring you to think they're funny.
It is, as they say, an interjection of what can be described as the demure demurrer, as it were — a self-interruption to apologize beforehand or just afterward for daring to use a declaratory sentence, a cliché, a colorful figure of speech or, pardon the expression, slang.
Two French pilots at the center of the notorious "Air Cocaine" case in the Dominican Republic have hightailed it back to France, fleeing 20-year prison sentences in a daring escape that is still partly shrouded in mystery.
The old women sentenced to re-education camps for daring to complain about poor compensation for their destroyed houses?
The best efforts of the infamous people's court run by Judge Roland Freisler could not prove Moltke's involvement, but in January 1945, he was sentenced to death anyway – for treasonously daring to think aloud about a post-Hitler future.
Vast expanses of pavement with no noisy traffic to drown out your voice as you utter sentences you can't believe you're daring to say.
It returns this most daring of writers to first principles: how to construct sentences that properly describe the world; how to build a syntax adequate to extremes of emotion.
The list of cultural icons from this "small island" is world-changing, formidable, unmatched - and so to put a video game into the same sentence as those mentioned above may be considered daring.
Naturally, I felt compelled to berate him for even daring to put "Jackass" and "Jake Paul" in the same sentence, so I hollered at the guy a bit (whatever it was justified).
