How To Use derring-do In A Sentence
- On the page and on the screen, "Kick-Ass" riffs on the wish-fulfillment afforded by tales of derring-do and the ill-advisedness of taking on the task in real life. PaloAltoOnline.com
- Now, I'm sure some of you with a more sceptical nature might find my tales of invisible derring-do a little hard to believe.
- Still, despite its linguistic derring-do, Vernon God Little is less a satire than a burlesque.
- Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies. THE KANAKA SURF
- That fall, in a series of articles in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Morros told his tales of derring-do to Rep. Francis E. A Covert Affair
- Islands of Wak, and never in all my days saw I mortal heartier of heart than he or doughtier of derring-do, save that love hath mastered him to the utmost of mastery. — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- When he wasn't regaling me with tales of his derring-do at Inchon, Korea in the early 1950s, he waxed lyrical about his oh-so-sexy adventures as a raw recruit at Kapooka in 1949.
- My imagination caught fire as I envisioned myself as some kind of lantern-jawed “Dudley Do Right”, heroically battling forest fires like a Montana smoke jumper, pulling off death defying back country rescues in the mountain wilderness, and performing other Forest Rangerly and manly acts of derring-do. Buffalo Bob and the Honey Dipper
- Just reciting the names conjures up the romantic side of Scottish history, peppered with acts of valour, loyalty, derring-do and occasional folly.
- But the librarian leadership was fired with derring-do, and they decided to go ahead with their plan to do away with Dewey. Steve Leveen: When Government and Business Get It Really Right -- Together
