(a.) Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
(2) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(3) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(4) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(5) This was a courageous move in a society where women were confined to purdah.
(6) The woman said it took her until the mid-1990s to pluck up the courage to report the abuse to Jersey's children's services department – and that her allegations were not taken seriously enough.
(7) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
(8) After Japanese troops invaded the Chinese city of Nanking (now Nanjing) in 1937, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, Hirohito said he was "deeply satisfied" by the troops' courage in quickly seizing the city.
(9) And with that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and just wages.
(10) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
(11) These inspiring and courageous women are up against a highly resourced state that looks after its own.
(12) Congratulating Mr Rabin and Mr Arafat on having the courage to change, a Clintonite speciality, he went on: 'Above all, let us dedicate ourselves to your region's next generation.
(13) Alicia deserves praise for courageously standing up to Trump’s attacks.
(14) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(15) They’re losing fear and they’re gaining courage, especially from the military positions he’s taken.
(16) They had announced Thursday that "as a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased."
(17) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(18) Cubism as practised by Picasso and Braque they thought courageous, up to a point, but misguided.
(19) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(20) It cannot be right that anyone who has found the courage to escape their abusive or violent partner should be subjected to the stress and torment of being confronted and interrogated by them in any court.” Research by charity Women’s Aid suggests a quarter of women in family court proceedings have been cross-examined by an abusive former partner.
Intrepid
Definition:
(a.) Not trembling or shaking with fear; fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a memo to AP staff, AP President Gary Pruitt remembered Niedringhaus as "spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember."
(2) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
(3) But the streets still have names such as Constitution Avenue and Intrepid Lane.
(4) From intrepid turtles to pioneering jellyfish, a host of animals have made their mark as the unsung heroes of space exploration.
(5) Clinton spent her preceding half-hour grilling on the Intrepid defending herself on her lax handling of classified information, a situation that a former navy lieutenant in the audience correctly observed would spell doom for a low-ranking service member.
(6) Pity the intrepid souls at Plastic Logic, who invented another reader, about to be launched any month now but which is ever so slightly, er, black and white.
(7) November In Mexico, the traditional Dia De Los Muertos festivities kicked off, and our intrepid reporter Kevin Rushby was there to capture the scenes.
(8) Once on the water, you have your way mapped out in the most unambiguous way, yet still feel intrepid.
(9) He was bright, intrepid, determined and full of character ... A very talented footballer and magnificent marine he had a lot to be proud of, yet I knew him to be an affable, generous, loyal and modest young man."
(10) It is particularly appropriate for an assemblage of protozoologists to pay homage to this intrepid "philosopher in little things," a man with an insatiable curiosity about his wee animalcules, on the tricentenary of his discovery of them, since it was an event of such long-lasting significance.
(11) He went down in the Hudson River abeam the Intrepid," he said, referring to a World War II-era aircraft carrier moored on the river as a museum.
(12) Fragments of medical information are recorded in the diaries of those early, intrepid explorers, such as Albert Cook, Henry Stanley, David Livingstone, and Albert Schweitzer.
(13) In recent years, some intrepid middle-class Indian and foreign expatriate cyclists have begun to brave Delhi's roads.
(14) In the meantime, however, the intrepid can play at being Indiana Jones at undeveloped sites on Phnom Kulen, and temple cities such as Beng Mealea and Koh Ker – and let their imaginations run wild.
(15) Ever since China reopened its doors to American releases in 1994, with the intrepid cultural ambassador that was The Fugitive, studios have fought hard to capture a fair share of the country's immense cinema audience, with artistic integrity often taking a back seat to the demands of a strict review board.
(16) Her literary path took her in the opposite direction to that of a fellow intrepid chronicler of the 20th century, JG Ballard .
(17) Supporters say they are the intrepid figureheads of a flourishing youth movement that is seeking an urgently-needed rupture with China’s authoritarian rulers.
(18) On MSNBC, he was asked if he had convinced his intrepid Iowan to vote for him in the state caucus, which kicks off the 2016 presidential contest on 1 February .
(19) The intrepid prehistoric hunter (Otzi) who was lost on a high mountain 5000 years ago and found last year was certainly an exception.
(20) In Poland, I remember Marta Krzystofowicz from those times as a graceful, intrepid conspirator for freedom.