What's the difference between daredevil and dauntless?

Daredevil


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You can pick up your Daredevil comic at Secret Headquarters ( thesecretheadquarters.com ), romance a date at Cafe Stella (3932 Sunset Boulevard; 001 323 666 0265), and grab some Humboldt Fog at Cheese Store of Silver Lake ( cheesestoresl.com ).
  • (2) In place of the elephants, the company said it will feature more things like daredevil acts and motor sports.
  • (3) The winner of a daredevil race chasing 8lbs of double Gloucester down a Gloucestershire hill at high speed has said he does not like cheese.
  • (4) Karen once looked out of the window and saw him in the street, tied to a skateboard attached to his sister's bike, ready for some daredevil trick.
  • (5) It was daredevil, inventive, funny and self-mocking.
  • (6) Daredevil fighters like Belmonte helped fuel popular enthusiasm for the fight and fascinated foreigners, with writer Ernest Hemingway displaying his obsession in Death in the Afternoon, The Sun Also Rises and The Dangerous Summer.
  • (7) "I grew up around my cousin who had plenty fucking comic books… Thor, Nova, Daredevil – shit like that."
  • (8) I protest that it's a daredevil performance, ricocheting between comedy and devastating despair.
  • (9) They will be greeted by boarded up shops and energetic protests – police in Pittsburgh have already arrested 14 Greenpeace demonstrators for a daredevil attempt to hang a banner from a steel arch bridge over the city's Ohio river.
  • (10) In an attempt to forestall claims of desertion, they involved Prime Minister Winston Churchill and, when they ultimately faced a court martial, were lauded in the press for their daredevil exploits.
  • (11) To put things in perspective, famously appalling superhero efforts Daredevil (2003) and Catwoman (2004) both got a “B”, while 1997’s Batman and Robin, featuring George Clooney’s oft-derided batnippled take on the caped crusader, received a “C+”.
  • (12) I’m excited by going 85mph, head-first, down an ice track,” says Rutherford, who, as it turns out, is also a daredevil skier and cliff-diver.
  • (13) I have taken daredevil opportunities when they presented themselves.
  • (14) In the latest act of solidarity with Ukraine in Russia , daredevils apparently defied both the authorities and any fear of falling 176 metres from the 32-floor structure and made it to the top of the tower overnight, painting the Soviet star at the top of the building (and hammer and sickle in the centre) in the Ukrainian blue and yellow colours, and attaching a Ukrainian flag.
  • (15) Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, X-Men … the odd spot of Catwoman or Daredevil if one were really unlucky.
  • (16) Channel 4 documentary Daredevils had 1.2 million viewers, 5% of the audience, ahead of the 1 million who watched BBC2's Design for Life.
  • (17) Before 2010 it had mostly engaged in low-key terrorism – daredevil raids on police stations to steal weapons, on banks to steal money and on prisons to free jailed terror suspects – confined to the north-easternmost part of the country.
  • (18) To write him off because he was the lead in a not brilliant Daredevil movie is, we'd argue, just a little disingenuous, and overlooks some of his more recent work.
  • (19) Marvel and DC announce new wave of female-led titles Read more Ice Age: Continental Drift’s Jason Fuchs remains on board to write the screenplay for Wonder Woman, which is due to be the first major female-fronted superhero movie in cinemas since Warner Bros’ ill-fated Halle Berry vehicle Catwoman in 2004 and Twentieth Century Fox’s poorly received Daredevil spin-off Elektra the year after.
  • (20) One day, there may even be a Daredevil reboot, though hopefully not soon.

Dauntless


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Argentina has complained to the UN of the UK's "militarisation" of the south Atlantic following news of the six-month deployment of Dauntless, which the Ministry of Defence has said is on routine mission taking over patrols from the frigate HMS Montrose.
  • (2) Larklight by Philip Reeve An imaginative tour de force, this rousing tale of dauntless pluck in the farthest reaches of space presents an alternative reality where Sir Isaac Newton's great discoveries have made the conquest of space possible.
  • (3) Well,” Davis ploughs on, dauntless, “you’ll be pleased to hear he’s retiring, then.” “She is no way going down as a Labour voter,” Davis says, as she heads to the next name on her list.
  • (4) It was the dauntless action of millions of ordinary people in the streets, day after day, which broke the regime and brought the Berlin Wall down.
  • (5) The MoD says a British destroyer, HMS Dauntless, has joined a US aircraft carrier group, and a frigate, HMS Kent, is escorting the French aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, in the Gulf.
  • (6) Walter Mitty's inner Walter Mitty is never rattled, however tight the corner; his peers marvel at his dauntless courage and are left breathless by the almost superhuman range of talents that real life never allows him to demonstrate.
  • (7) The commemorations took place as it was confirmed HMS Dauntless, one of the Royal Navy's newest and most powerful destroyers, will set sail from Portsmouth to the Falkland Islands on Wednesday, a day before the 30th anniversary of the taskforce's departure.
  • (8) She calls herself “feisty”, and her self-belief seems dauntless, but a story she tells about failing her 11-plus makes me wonder.
  • (9) Destroyer HMS Dauntless will set sail from Portsmouth for the Falklands in what the the Ministry of Defence says is a "pre-planned and routine" six-month deployment in the South Atlantic.
  • (10) It relates to his dauntless quest to get a friend and erstwhile media ally a nice little quango job.

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