derring-do

• “While some of the librarians sit behind the desk, others engage in even more derring-do.”

  The Huffington Post: Steve Leveen: When Government and Business Get It Really Right -- Together

• “But the librarian leadership was fired with derring-do, and they decided to go ahead with their plan to do away with Dewey.”

  The Huffington Post: Steve Leveen: When Government and Business Get It Really Right -- Together

• “But Mr. Ijaz, who has a reputation for grandstanding about his diplomatic derring-do, has released Blackberry chat transcripts with the ambassador that seem to show Mr. Haqqani was one of the authors of the memorandum at the heart of this scandal.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A U.S.-Pakistan Reset

• “Ellie Thiry was already being monopolized by a Major Francis Basil Summers, a dashing British army intelligence officer who had been on the stage in London before the war and positively reeked of derring-do.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Covert Affair

• “That fall, in a series of articles in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Morros told his tales of derring-do to Rep. Francis E.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Covert Affair

• “But in 2000 they fell under the spell of Kamal Derwish, a charismatic, deeply religious, fellow Yemeni-American, who told them stirring tales of derring-do about his role in the early-1990s war between the Bosnian Muslims and Serbs.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

• “All that radical derring-do is offset by the Zen-like calm of her renovated apartment in the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, purchased 18 months ago.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Ballad of a Rebel and Her Lost Love

• “But I imagined myself not getting a tattoo at twenty-eight; time passes; by the age of thirty-five, I would (I imagined) no longer have the youthful derring-do to go ahead and get the tattoo.”

  Tattoo in Japan Boing Boing

• “Because she is a woman, Logan's derring-do is deemed impetuous, maybe a little madcap.”

  The Huffington Post: Danielle Berrin: Women and War Zones: Lessons From the Rape of Lara Logan

• “Concentrating on dramatic and action-filled tales filled with heroic battles, moral dilemmas, and chivalric derring-do, the images in history manuscripts help us to understand the broader conception of history in the Middle Ages, which often encompassed material that we would now consider myth, romance, or even outright invention.”

  The Huffington Post: Elizabeth Morrison: A Getty Curator Discusses Manuscripts, France, And The Middle Ages: Imagining The Past

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