Sentence examples for it takes nerve from inspiring English sources

It takes nerve to rewrite "Romeo and Juliet".

It takes nerve, being an alley cat on the catwalk.

It takes nerve to come up with duck schnitzel.

"It takes nerve, in this town, to hold the middle ground," Barnum said.

It takes nerve to turn down a settlement offer of $17.5 million.

It takes nerve to place one's faith in the food and nothing but the food.

It takes nerves of steel to negotiate the hairpin bends and fallen trees, and to watch out for potential landslides at every turn.

It takes nerves of steel but can be effective.

IT took nerve to put a restaurant in Lever House, one of Manhattan's Modernist jewels.

It took nerve for Payne to declaim such a big emotional finish, but I submitted wholeheartedly to its trumpet-blast of defiant non-irony, in which those deep old-man wrinkles around Schmidt's eyes, which he told Ndugu he hated so much, become the tracks of his tears.

It took nerve to pitch an inexperienced three-year-old maiden winner into the hurly-burly of an 18-runner handicap, and shrewdness to stump up a €9,500 supplementary fee to put First Cornerstone into his Group Two race, recognising that the forecast heavy ground would remove some significant opposition.