(n.) Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
(n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.
(n.) In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
(n.) Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.
(n.) Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
(n.) Steep; abrupt; prominent.
(v. t.) To make bold or daring.
(v. i.) To be or become bold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(2) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(3) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
(4) No doubt it was intended as a bold and graphic way of presenting the Iranian nuclear threat, but much of the initial response – on Twitter, at least – was ridicule.
(5) Noonan was also bold in his projection for Irish economic growth by 3.9% for 2015, which is higher than the original 2.7% growth predicted back in April this year.
(6) He Peirong has been at the forefront of a bold and innovative campaign by Chinese activists to free Chen and his family from their lengthy captivity.
(7) But Di Matteo has made bold selections before, not least when he asked Ramires to play on the left of midfield against Barcelona in an attempt to nullify the threat posed by the marauding Daniel Alves down the flank.
(8) But Sanders, 73, rejected the idea his appeal is limited to voters on the left, boldly predicting on Wednesday that his message would appeal to both fellow independents and Republicans.
(9) Read more The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a “bold” and “groundbreaking” outcome even as other delegates complained of “a terrible precedent” and lack of moral leadership.
(10) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(11) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
(12) Blowing up the flats will on the one hand "serve as an unforgettable statement of how Glasgow is confidently embracing the future and changing for the better", while on the other it will "serve as a respectful recognition and celebration of the role the Red Road flats have played in shaping the lives of thousands of city families for whom these flats have simply been home … " According to David Zolkwer, who as the games' artistic director may have had the idea, the demolition will be "a bold and confident statement that says: 'Bring on the future'."
(13) But the equaliser was fair reward for the best move of the game and for Strachan’s own boldness in putting a player on to push back Séamus Coleman on Ireland’s right.
(14) Carney will have to defend his bold pledge to peg UK interest rates to their current record low of 7% until unemployment rate has dropped to 7%, sometime in 2016 by the Bank's reckoning.
(15) But US security experts criticised the administration for appearing to time its intervention to suit conflicting agendas of the Asean and Paris summits rather than more boldly assert the principle of freedom of navigation.
(16) Charlotte Emma Aitchison suits the bold, bratty music she makes.
(17) Advising renegotiation was "a bold recommendation" but showed the depth of backbench feeling on the issue, he added: "This is a joint committee of the Lords and the Commons, with a coalition government majority, and it's a unanimous report."
(18) The only Newcastle player that regularly took initiatives in the first half was Andros Townsend but he lacked the accuracy to make good on bold intentions.
(19) In 2007 a fresh-faced MP spent two days at the home of a Muslim family in Birmingham and then wrote boldly of how it wasn’t possible to “bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them”; “you can’t even start to talk about a truly integrated society while people are suffering racist … abuse … on a daily basis”.
(20) After meeting the summit host, the president of the Philippines, Obama said the US and Manila had agreed on the need for “bold steps to lower tensions, including pledging to halt reclamation, new construction and militarisation of disputed islands in the South China Sea”.
Nervy
Definition:
(superl. -) Strong; sinewy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proenkephalin A-related immunoreactive neuronal perikarya were detected in the central gray, reticular formation, nucleus raphes, trapezoid body, nucleus parabrachialis lateralis and medialis, nucleus spinalis nervi trigemini, nucleus dorsalis nervi vagi, and in the nucleus tractus solitarii.
(2) It's typically sober and elegant, and Cotillard excels in a nervy, vulnerable role.
(3) His recent play was about a young man exploring his eastern European Jewish heritage – "narcissism dressed up as history" is how Eisenberg dismisses this personal interest of his – and he has specialised in playing nervy, nerdy characters.
(4) Leaders who are particularly nervy end up rearranging the Whitehall furniture to try to keep everyone happy – removing energy from trade and industry, or science from education, to create new fiefdoms; or adding such responsibilities back in to try to convince ministers disgruntled at not being shuffled up that they are instead being promoted through the expansion of their empire.
(5) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(6) Both the medullary Mauthner neurons and the cerebellar Purkinje cells were only weakly immunoreactive for FMRFamide, while a group of intensely FMRFi rhombencephalic perikarya, presumably the nucleus motorius nervi vagi, occurred subependymally next to the fourth ventricle.
(7) Thickening of the affected nerve was found in the acute phase of neuritis nervi optici, trauma, optic nerve tumors and in papilloedema due to raised orbital or intracranial pressure.
(8) (Cook is sounding more confident than in the past; he can be a nervy speaker.)
(9) At the level of the obex, nerve terminations were identified in the nucleus tractus solitarius, nucleus motorius dorsalis nervi vagi and the nucleus nervi hypoglossi.
(10) These are as follows: (1) non-noradrenergic neurons in the Sc area, (2) nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis and nucleus reticularis parvocellularis, (3) group 1 (of Meessen and Olszewski), (4) a cell group extending to the ventrolateral region of the reticular formation of the pons, (5) nucleus ambiguug, (6) nucleus nervi facialis.
(11) Mechanisms of regeneration of nervi vagi efferents and normalization of the stomach activity are discussed.
(12) In 20.9% this artery originates from the ulnar artery proximally to the Hamulus ossis hamati and joins the Ramus profundus nervi ulnaris to reach the depth of the palma manus.
(13) Apart from fibroblasts, the outer layer of the epineurium contains mast cells and vasa nervorum as well as myelinated nervi nervorum.
(14) The examination was based on the anatomical fixed papilla nervi optici, which appears in the visual field as the blind spot.
(15) The nervi pelvini contained about 4000 myelinated nerve fibres, the nervi rectales inferiores and perineales 1700 and the nervus hypogastricus 2000 fibres.
(16) GABA-T-intensive neurons were found to be rich in the following hindbrain structures: inferior colliculus, nuclei of the raphe system, nuclei parabrachialis dorsalis and ventralis, nucleus cuneiformis, nucleus vestibularis medialis, nucleus tractus spinalis nervi trigemini, nucleus vagus, nucleus cochlearis, nucleus reticularis lateralis, nucleus ambiguus, nucleus cuneatus lateralis, inferior olive, and reticular formation of the pons and medulla.
(17) While the nervi corporis cardiaci I (NCCI) originate from the protocerebrum of the brain, the NCCII seem to take their origin in the tritocerebrum in common with another nerve named earlier as the tegumentary nerve.
(18) City's Mancini, following a series of nervy, half-hearted predecessors less suited to the strange, monumental and messy task of creating a football team in opposition to the extortionate Reds, and remaking history – which Ferguson understood with his own particular combative cunning – has this purpose too, this instinctive perception of how to succeed by channelling uptight regional mentality as well as introducing fresh, resourceful outside skills.
(19) In pithed rats, stimulation of the Nervi accelerantes caused tachycardia, which was diminished considerably by clonidine.
(20) FMRF-IR perikarya were found in the periventricular hypothalamus, mesencephalic laminar nucleus, nucleus nervi terminalis and retina (presumed amacrine cells), and along the olfactory nerves.