How To Use Faint-hearted In A Sentence
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That you know; and you know too, that she purchased her glory and her greatness not by faint-heartedness, but by choosing to suffer pain and incur dangers in the day of need.
Hellenica
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Figure of Eight racing is not for faint-hearted drivers or spectators, but it provides some of the most thrilling racing on the short circuit scene.
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She made a rather faint-hearted attempt to stop him from leaving.
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As one might imagine, staging a contemporary, through-composed work is not for the faint-hearted.
Cedric Perrier: I Dream : Lowery & Young Join King Family at World Premiere of New MLK opera
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Regretting now his faint-heartedness in not letting her know beforehand by some means that he was about to make a new start in the world, and coming to dwell near her, Christopher rang the bell to make inquiries.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Well, loosen your belts, because it's not for the faint-hearted, nor the low-cholesterol dieter.
Plymouth's 10 best budget restaurants and cafes
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It is not a job for the faint-hearted - it will cost £10,000 just to strip out the still-working machinery.
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And with its inherent risks, firefighting is certainly not a job for the faint-hearted.
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Ironically, libertarian and liberal originalists have been among the most dismissive of Justice Scalia's faint-heartedness.
Howe on Slavery as Punishment and the Original Public Meaning of the 13th Amendment
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His biceps bulged; his abdomen rippled and the mere sight of him made the faint-hearted swoon.
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Complete disassembly of a laptop membrane keyboard is not for the faint-hearted and is time consuming and fiddly – but we have done so on a number of occasions with some success.
How To Save Your Keyboard After A Spill | Lifehacker Australia
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Faint heart never won fair lady, and Zeynep Ucbasaran, the lady at the piano here, certainly cannot, herself, be accused of faint-heartedness in tackling this most demanding programme.
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Cabaret is not for the faint-hearted and untalented.
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It is not for the faint-hearted, for it throws down a gauntlet to walkers seeking an outing that is rather more challenging than a mere walk.
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This is cinema not for the faint-hearted, where you have to go into the dark places first before you can see the light.
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Not for the faint-hearted investor.
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It's a good view from the helm of a ship, but it's not for the faint-hearted.
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Not for the faint-hearted or those who suffer from vertigo.
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The audience, after watching this performance a moment or two, began making their bets, both individually and through the agency of the "farmer," who, standing in the centre of the ring, cried out chaffingly in Visayan to faint-hearted gamesters.
A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
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Flying with ex-Red Arrows is billed as the ultimate experience for aircraft enthusiasts and daredevils, rather than the faint-hearted.
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Taken alongside its mellower roleplaying game-styled daytimes, Catherine is an unusual and gripping game with later puzzles that are certainly not for the faint-hearted.
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A faint-hearted woman, Mirjan Akhtar, swooned and died of fright.
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This book is bold, brassy and not for the faint-hearted.
The Sun
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Art-world; and tempted by ambition, or barred by faint-heartedness, or driven by necessity, to turn away thence to the vulgar life-track, and the light of common day.
The Newcomes
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And a resident who fears his life will be blighted by the development says he has been let down by a faint-hearted planning committee.
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Afterwards we were treated to free samples of Helen's strudel and a tot of the local hooch, raki, a colourless liquid drunk like schnapps which is not for the faint-hearted.
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And you, foster-brother, if my fame is important to you, do you betake yourself to those dumpish oafs around the fires and try, by any means whatever, to remedy their faint-heartedness.
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest
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The hero of Troneg spake: “I do it in the hope that if we have a coward on this journey, who through faint-heartedness would run away, that in this stream he may die a shameful death.”
The Nibelungenlied
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Similarly, the New English's bone china heart isn't a gift for the faint-hearted.
The Dark Side of Fine Bone China
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Regulating pornography is not for the faint-hearted.
'Porn producers live in a parallel world'
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The question, then, is how we build on this epiphany; now is no time for faint-heartedness.
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Starting a literary magazine is an adventure not for the faint-hearted or the easily discouraged.
I Am Sorry to Inform You
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This is not a play for the faint-hearted, but it is a celebration of life, love, and country.
Lonna Saunders: Dr. King's Volcanic Mountaintop Seductively Explosive
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He turned and twisted, schemed and devised, bludgeoned and bullied the weaker ones, kept the faint-hearted in the fight, and had no mercy on the deserter.
Chapter XXI
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But if the contrast between self-restraint and appetite is so great, no less startling is that between boldness and faint-heartedness.
Hellenica
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Shares in technology firms are not for the faint-hearted but they can also prove highly rewarding if everything goes to plan.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory, for a six-month sabbatical, he used the occasion to review the work he and his various teams have done over the past 10 years or so - and bravely assessed the success or otherwise of the major various initiatives in which he has been involved - and MESUR (not for the acronymically faint-hearted).
Hangingtogether.org
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An aggressively hirsute, not-for-the-faint-hearted, good-time pleasure-seeker.
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Negotiating the chaos and commotion of the gridlocked Arc de Triomphe in a car is not for the faint-hearted, never mind on a tandem.
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Flying with ex-Red Arrows is billed as the ultimate experience for aircraft enthusiasts and daredevils, rather than the faint-hearted.
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The only people who felt queasy about this courtly ritual were the impressionable, faint-hearted administrators of British tennis.
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As anyone who saw his show at the Photographers' Gallery in London in 2003 will know, Enrique Metinides's work is not for the faint-hearted.
Les Rencontres d'Arles 2011 – review
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He's followed his Dad into the tree-felling and carting business, not a career for the soft or faint-hearted.
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With conditions ranging from the unpredictable calms of the doldrums to the gale force winds and icebergs of the southern oceans, the Global Challenge is certainly not one for the faint-hearted.
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Whether this was achieved by good luck or good management or faint-heartedness is moot and likely to remain so.
When Kennedy Blinked
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Can he rally the faint-hearted in times of despair?
Times, Sunday Times
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Inevitably the rain starts sheeting down, but it's no deterrent to visitors intent on a walk on the beach while the faint-hearted pack J.D Wetherspoon, the Promenades and the amusement arcades.
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Satyrs are described as roguish but faint-hearted folk — subversive and dangerous, yet shy and cowardly.
Pan and Satyrs
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For all of its languid sensuality, however, The Dreamers is not a film for the faint-hearted or easily-offended.
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For if men hate the presumption of those who claim a reputation to which they have no right, they equally condemn the faint-heartedness of those who fall below the glory which is their own.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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With a capacity of 4,000, one seated stand and bleak open terraces, Wigan's former home was not a place for the faint-hearted, either in the crowd or on the pitch.
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Until that time when the meaning of it all shall flash out upon the world, the race will be hidebound in callousness and in faint-hearted melancholy.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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It is not an undertaking for the faint-hearted.
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Not for the faint-hearted, folks: don't try it without the supervision of a properly qualified person in attendance.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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In each of these institutional developments Kay met with and overcame opposition and faint-heartedness, rallied the support of the faithful, inveigled co-operation, and prevailed.
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We can't stop in the middle, and just because things are going tough from time to time we can't get faint-hearted here.
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Don't drive to Levisham if you're a faint-hearted motorist.
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Trading currencies is not for the faint-hearted - you must be prepared to face potentially heavy losses
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Do not accuse me of faint-heartedness; if I had gone
The Magic Skin
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Now call me old fashioned, but I've seen the film and it's not for the faint-hearted, let alone a child.
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Heliskiing is definitely not for the faint-hearted, nor is it particularly good for your skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until that time when the meaning of it all shall flash out upon the world, the race will be hidebound in callousness and in faint-hearted melancholy.
The Kempton-Wace Letters
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Each of these chapters in his life is described in graphic detail, which may not be for the faint-hearted.
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Fund managers are not for the faint-hearted investor.
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Not for the faint-hearted or those who suffer from vertigo.
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The climb is not for the faint-hearted .
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It may be a hard battle and it is not a battle for the faint-hearted.
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Watching them express their mutual antagonism once again in the ring will not be for the faint-hearted.
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Watching them express their mutual antagonism once again in the ring will not be for the faint-hearted.
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His decision smacked of faint-heartedness - something they can sniff a mile away - and played into their hands.
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Faint-hearted liberals in the warm are wondering what it is they have to hide.
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It's a film about a serial killer and not for the faint-hearted.
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This intense study of obsession is not for the faint-hearted, but Alban Berg's tough and complex music has some unexpected moments of luculent beauty.
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They share the land with intimidating creatures like the bull snake above—a constrictor that can grow as long as 8 feet—and other fauna best avoided by the faint-hearted.
Photo-Op: Big Bender
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Roy's performances, especially the finales, were not for the faint-hearted but the rest of us found them frankly exhilarating, and so did our audiences.
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Well, loosen your belts, because it's not for the faint-hearted, nor the low-cholesterol dieter.
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Calling someone an ‘appeaser ‘is a dreadful insult, one implying, faint-heartedness, limp-wristedness, lily-liveredness, and all the rest.’
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Riders start in a pack and race inches away from each other on lightweight track bikes with a single gear and no brakes it's not for the faint-hearted.
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The terrorist threat in the region has kept faint-hearted tourists away.
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Some of the words seemed particularly resonant for me at that time: “Take and offer on the Cross our labours, weariness and low spirits and struggles and faint-heartedness . . .”
The Woman I Was Born to Be
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This is not a time for the faint-hearted.
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The terrorist threat in the region has kept faint-hearted tourists away.
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Certainly, the past few days have not been for the faint-hearted investor.
Times, Sunday Times
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With conditions ranging from the unpredictable calms of the doldrums to the gale force winds and icebergs of the southern oceans, the Global Challenge is certainly not one for the faint-hearted.
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Not for the faint-hearted, but time to tune in.
Times, Sunday Times
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The terrorist threat in the region has kept faint-hearted tourists away.
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Our nation was not built by faint-hearted cowards and couch potatoes.
O'Malley's remarks to Virginia Democrats
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It's not for the faint-hearted, however, and personally, I found the plot neither hugely engrossing nor entirely convincing.
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The evening started in true daredevil fashion when acrobats from the Scarabeus Theatre Company scaled the walls of the Franciscan Friary in a dramatic performance that was not for the faint-hearted.
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The drive along the winding coast road is not for the faint-hearted.
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In each of these institutional developments Kay met with and overcame opposition and faint-heartedness, rallied the support of the faithful, inveigled co-operation, and prevailed.
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The drive along the winding coast road is not for the faint-hearted.
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A new theatre company is staging its debut production next week and it promises to be a great show, but not for the faint-hearted.
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Not for the faint-hearted, folks: don't try it without the supervision of a properly qualified person in attendance.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Conditions were still not for the faint-hearted and with athletes travelling from as far away as Bath and London, this proved a tough assignment in every respect.
