There was no mishap, though, and the next day he produced a brilliant, nerveless display to set the tone, really, for the rest of his career.
Mr Dienstbier helped lead the negotiations that prised the regime's nerveless fingers from the levers of power breaking off during the talks to stoke his furnace.
In horseshoeing, the blacksmith first cleans and shapes the sole and rim of the horse's hoof with rasps and knives, a process painless to the animal owing to the tough, horny, and nerveless character of the hoof.
Evening Standard "Superconfident, nerveless amiability, as if it were the simplest thing in the world for one man to entice another 20,000 to sing his songs with him.
Walsh, who needed a nerve block to kill the pain of that fractured jaw back in London, returned to her nerveless best in Boom, throwing herself into tackles with no less enthusiasm than she did in Germany 14 years ago.
Worksop's finest follows in footsteps of Montgomerie with nerveless displays to raise European hopes It is nigh on half a century since the American horticulturist Howard Hulford took a fancy to a small promontory at the foot of the rainforest on the coast of southern Antigua.
Wales scored the only tries, but with Paul Ringer dismissed for dangerous tackling, they fell to Dusty Hare's nerveless goal-kicking.
Carter's nerveless late strike turned it round.
He is not a natural drop-kicker, but the eighth in his long career, improbably impudent and unerringly accurate, was followed by a nerveless penalty from just inside the Australian half.
Their batsmen are finding their roles and Jos Buttler, who is growing by the game as a finisher, hit 32 nerveless runs full of zest and invention from 16 balls.
Is such nerveless behaviour peculiarly in the nature of politicians?
