Its 5-0 drubbing of Norwich City on the league's opening day two weeks ago was impressive; so, too, was its gallant 3-2 loss a week later at Manchester United.
I cannot speak too highly of his gallant conduct".
All too often it was gallant red men against rampaging white giants.
Kevin McKenzie's 2000 version at American Ballet Theater, by contrast, not only hammers home Odette's ornithomorphic predicament but also makes the sorcerer Rothbart a Jekyll-and-Hyde persona too: now a dangerously gallant cavalier, next a hideous creature from the Green Lagoon (played by another dancer).
Fantastically amiable, modest, and unshowy, there is something gallant about her, too, as though, deep inside, she is always braced for adversity.
In one painting by ter Borch, a woman in a glistening silver satin dress ducks her head and turns away from us, in response to something said by a seated gallant who is too young to endorse the work's sometimes speculated title, "The Paternal Admonition"; the scene expanded, in my mind, to the length and depth of a first-rate movie.
But don't be jealous...it would cost me too dearly to play the gallant".
And every semester — except on those rare occasions when the subject of the class has been too narrowly focussed to include Mavis Gallant's fiction — I have taught at least one, sometimes two, of her stories.
As their gallant battle ended, so, too, ends the first great tale of The Lord of the Rings".
