What's the difference between daredevil and foolhardy?

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.

Foolhardy


Definition:

  • (a.) Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The labour data suggests that the recovery is ticking over quite nicely, though it would be foolhardy to get complacent given that the risks facing the economy are skewed to the downside."
  • (2) It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050.
  • (3) E.ON was the only one brave – or foolhardy – enough to put its head above the parapet and make a formal application to the government.
  • (4) Plainly the system has faults, but seeking to upend things at a time when the public can see no imminent need for change might be considered brave if not foolhardy.
  • (5) It would be foolhardy to offer an inflexible step-care protocol for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, given its heterogeneity and our uncertainty about its pathogenesis.
  • (6) But for me to say ‘this is what we’re going to do’ would be very foolhardy in the first place and, secondly, dishonest because the truth is I don’t know.” He couched it perfectly, especially for those who were with him on the training camp in Miami before the World Cup when, barely a day after one of his predecessors, Sven-Goran Eriksson, stated there was “absolutely no way” England could win it, the manager abandoned all restraint and fell into the trap.
  • (7) Is it foolhardy of the younger Joe to hang on to the life he knows, even when the future is warning him against it?
  • (8) It would be foolhardy for Iran to want to break out, they say, as there would be a high probability that its work would be discovered before it had made a single weapon.
  • (9) To throw that protection away in response to business demands without any plans to secure improvement in journalism is foolhardy and an insult to our local communities."
  • (10) "People thought we were extremely brave, or foolhardy," says Annie Hudson, Bristol social services divisional director for children, about her predecessor's decision to let in the cameras.
  • (11) The risk for Purnell is that his act of courage - or foolhardiness - will not pull the government down with him, but leave it standing but impotent, the cabinet weakened but intact, too strong to fall apart entirely even though too weak to command events.
  • (12) "[G]iven the deaths of 15 million people during the war, attempting to position 1918 as a simplistic, nationalistic triumph seems … foolhardy, not least because the very same tensions re-emerged to such deadly effect in 1939.
  • (13) Sending money to Washington and expecting central planners to send it back in a way that will grow jobs is foolhardy,” he said.
  • (14) Reviews are always somewhat retrospective in outlook; to write a review at the present time is especially foolhardy since developments in biology are such that totally new concepts can arise almost overnight, as it were.
  • (15) Actually using a bike as a means of getting from A to B along normal roads is still a matter for the brave and the foolhardy, and cyclists on the roads are a rare sight indeed.
  • (16) But flouting both simultaneously is for the foolhardy alone.
  • (17) It would be foolhardy to suggest we’re out of the woods yet, though, and share prices are likely to remain volatile for some time.” Markets have endured some of the worst volatility since the financial crisis amid fears over China’s slowing economy.
  • (18) Río Doce's willingness to go further than other local papers is not, however, foolhardy bravery.
  • (19) But at the moment, they are not recognised as anyone’s territory and we can sail legally, peacefully through these alleged 12-mile limits.” Conroy said while it would be “foolhardy” for the government to announce a freedom-of-navigation exercise in advance of it happening, Australia “should be prepared to defend the international system”.
  • (20) In what some have termed a foolhardy plan, others highly idealistic, the movement plans to reconstruct the city regardless of who wins the war.

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