daredevilry

Example Sentences

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As symbols go, Niagara Falls offers plenty: a source of power, daredevilry, a bucolic vacation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2018

If the city has traditionally been knocked for anything, it’s that very safeness; a detour here ranks as low on the daredevilry scale as those T-bills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2016

Though they came from the post-Bowie period of his work, their ingredients of androgyny, camp and daredevilry now seem closely akin to Bowie.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2016

His work includes fashioning steel pipes that shatter like glass, and pyrotechnic daredevilry where entire mountain landscapes are illuminated by magnesium flares sent soaring into the sky at 3,000C.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2012

As he appears in the Company's records, he showed none of the picturesque daredevilry that distinguished many of the sea rovers whose names are less known.

From The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by Biddulph, J. (John)