valiance

Example Sentences

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There’s always a debate for reason versus passion, for valiance versus depravity, Knox argues.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2020

Going by plot alone, in terms of its emotional valiance, this is such a Hitchcock picture, but Olivier was not the kind of actor the director usually employed.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2017

Considering that this superstar once strode across the world’s biggest stages with the valiance of a freak, she now seems to be exuding the quiet desperation of a fraud.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2016

I applaud State House Speaker Philip Gunn for his valiance to start a “conversation” about the flag.

From Time • Jun. 25, 2015

Mr. Widdecombe, however, with much valiance secured Mr. Chesterton.

From Turns about Town by Holliday, Robert Cortes