The word 'valiance' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun that means courage or bravery. Example: The soldier demonstrated great valiance on the battlefield, risking his life to protect his fellow comrades.
But it was Prior's own valiance that allowed England to leave Auckland with dignity and scoreline intact.
They also hoped that the players' vigor, valiance and glamour rubbed off on them.
In the Western imagination, the valiance of symbolically charged figures like Homer's Ulysses or the Knights of the Round Table remained unquestioned since their conception.
In his review, Ben Brantley of the New York Times called the play "remarkable," adding, "Even in descriptions of boredom and squalor there's a glimmer of nobility, of the valiance required to get through one day".
The Palestinian and Syrian people are currently struggling with impressive valiance in calling for freedom, justice and human dignity.
But revisiting "A Delicate Balance," which also memorably features Jonathan Hogan and Lisa Emery, I'm more aware than ever of the valiance in people like Agnes.
Even in descriptions of boredom and squalor there's a glimmer of nobility, of the valiance required to get through one day.
I'm sure they would love to add to their valiance and industry the occasional Ferrero Rocher or a potato that's not in a tin.
Both are mass-market confections in which larger-than-life heroes emerge to engage in acts of valiance that would be beyond most normal human beings.
Or because he didn't see black women as women at all, and, as something less than women (and certainly lesser than white women), felt us undeserving of the same valiance he conjured on behalf of the women he claim to be protecting?
While I love Macmillan, and have donated to them by subscription ever since their nurses gently eased my great aunt through her final months, I worry that Go Sober is just the latest unnecessarily public display of abstinence, dressed up as philanthropy and human valiance.
