dauntlessness

Example Sentences

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The engine of this movie is snark, and Dever, overtaxed with carrying the comedy, brings a dauntlessness to the role, even during more daft moments.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

You would need to be the perfect person for the job — to have just the right combination of masochism, tenacity, disinterest and dauntlessness.

From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2022

"Charlie Hebdo deserves to be recognised for its dauntlessness in the face of one of the most noxious assaults on expression in recent memory."

From BBC • May 5, 2015

"Charlie Hebdo deserves to be recognized for its dauntlessness in the face of one of the most noxious assaults on expression in recent memory."

From Reuters • May 5, 2015

Her beauty and her dauntlessness have laid a sort of spell on me and I'm a fairly conservative man.

From A Pagan of the Hills by Buck, Charles Neville