Arms crossed, jaw set, I settled in, daring him to get one centimetre tackier.
Here were two teeming, modernist works from different eras but linked in daring.
He's virile and quick-witted, and his Watson, if not Holmes's equal in brainpower, comes close to him in daring.
So after a debate in Myrtle Beach on January 16th Mr Gingrich tried something new, joining Mr Perry in daring Mr Romney to publish his tax returns.
Credit Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland with political courage in daring the Legislature to face up to the state's neglected roads and transit needs by, yes, raising the gasoline tax.
In 2011, he joined Emma Marris, Peter Kareiva and Joseph Mascaro in daring to chart an optimistic environmental path for our species in "Hope in the Age of Man".
In 1742, during the War of the Austrian Succession, he was appointed to command the French army in Germany, but he had always been the "man of small means," safe, cautious, and lacking in daring.
In daring the police to kill him, Mr. Eifert, who had served in Iraq and was working as an Army recruiter, joined an increasing number of deployed veterans who, after returning home, plunge into a downward spiral, propelled by post-traumatic stress disorder or other emotional problems.
This is why there is such joy in daring one's best.
All James's authors are some version of James, while Beerbohm's, though of the period, are as varied as they are eternal: the Aspirant, the Mediocrity, or the writer, like Enoch Soames, who believes with all his heart in Daring without ever being able to Dare himself.
But there was no point in daring when the only outcome was bad".
