buccaneering

• “While Basel cannot be described as buccaneering it took a long time before they were pinned down and United were indifferent in midfield.”

  The Guardian: Basel 2-1 Manchester United | Champions League Group C match report

• “Joss liked good clothes and he wore them well, but nothing could totally disguise what her grandfather had described as his buccaneering quality; that arrogant maleness that no amount of city suiting could tame.”

  Lovers Touch

• “RBS recovers in, what, three to five years, it's not going to be the same kind of buccaneering, high-risk enterprise it has been for the past decade. ndm”

  John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...

• “So at last "buccaneering," as it had come to be generically called, ceased to pay the vast dividends that it had done at first.”

  Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main

• “Today, we play with pirate talk and its mythical lore as a means of stepping into the important performance role of a buccaneering jester.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Bushman Way of Tracking God

• “I guess most readers think of it as a left-wing enterprise and of Julian Assange as a buccaneering fighter for free speech.”

  The Guardian: Who will confront the hatred in Hungary? | Nick Cohen

• “Indeed, were it not for the spirited counterattack of the Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose buccaneering charge from down the order breathed some life back into a body that was on the point of expiring, the game might already be beyond the reach of India.”

  The Guardian: India 224, England 84-0 | Third Test day one match report

• “But it's true a patch does bestow a buccaneering air on, for example, Snake Plissken, or Bond villain Emilio Largo, or Les Amants du Pont-Neuf's Michèle Juliet Binoche who goes one-eyed water-skiing down the Seine.”

  The Guardian: Anne Billson – Cutter's Way and the great tradition of the film eyepatch

• “They share the belief that a potent combination of speed, force, and nerve — a buccaneering willingness to cast aside doubt, seize the levers of government, and apply its full power — can halt financial panics.”

  Inside Man

• “West Indies, however, with a smattering of thirtysomethings making their last hurrahs – Roy Fredericks, Rohan Kanhai, Vanburn Holder and Keith Boyce – tackled the new game with the peacock strut of Vivian Richards at cover point and the languid buccaneering of Clive Lloyd at the crease.”

  The Guardian: Cricket World Cup needs classic moments – not Bryan Adams – to be a hit | Rob Bagchi

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