What's the difference between daredevil and madcap?

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.

Madcap


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
  • (a.) Wild; reckless.
  • (n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
  • (2) This madcap scheme is completely contrary to Medicare,” Abbott said at the time .
  • (3) Like American Hustle, another madcap 70s period piece which it somewhat resembles, it could be a shoo-in for major awards come 2015.
  • (4) For all that, the Help to Buy scheme vividly demonstrates the madcap world of British housing finance.
  • (5) He soon transferred to presenting and built up a reputation for a madcap approach that was somewhat constrained by BBC management.
  • (6) This is not a document full of whizzy graphics and madcap ideas.
  • (7) The government should pull the plug on these madcap 'offsetting' plans and get on with delivering its commitments to protect and boost wildlife through better planning."
  • (8) Even if you hate me, please don’t take Labour over the cliff edge | Tony Blair Read more Such is the public indifference to events beyond Britain’s borders that a politician can hold almost any madcap belief on foreign affairs and get away with it.
  • (9) Whether it’s the slapstick drag of Mrs Doubtfire, the frenetic voice of the Genie, or the thorax shaking screams from Good Morning, Vietnam there is so much comedy that we don’t need to remember the madcap exec who was Sarah Michelle Gellar’s father.
  • (10) Even then a madcap day was not done with folly and frolic as France, on their own line, 20 points down and with nothing at all to gain, tapped and ran.
  • (11) Near the Clignancourt flea market in northern Paris, it offers a madcap mix of DIY workshops, €12 dinners on global themes, screenings and cocktails beside the old train tracks.
  • (12) Nothing went our way, but now we have to raise our heads because life goes on.” “It was unbelievable, and incredible things happened which we will be unable to explain for the rest of our lives,” said Manchester City’s Fernandinho, a member of the two-man midfield that had been so horribly outnumbered and overrun during that madcap first period.
  • (13) So maybe it is appropriate that the madcap black crime comedy American Hustle has emerged as the big winner of the Globes with its three awards: for best comedy or musical, and best actress and best supporting actress (comedy or musical) for Amy Adams and the all-conquering Jennifer Lawrence.
  • (14) At the photo shoot for this piece she gamely tries on outfit after outfit of streetwear, looking like a small but ferocious superhero, the type of no-nonsense heroine who’s as at home with a snappy retort as a swift roundhouse kick, and the perfect companion for Capaldi’s madcap incarnation of the Doctor.
  • (15) In the opera categories the English National Opera won best new opera production for Handel's Partenope, the madcap cross-dressing comedy of errors transposed from ancient Naples to the roaring 20s.
  • (16) Meanwhile Lord Adonis has called for the House of Lords to be moved "up north" , presumably to give custom to his other madcap idea, that £50bn be spent on HS2 .
  • (17) Weis also discusses whether, in their “madcap twenties”, Shakespeare and the more overtly gay Christopher Marlowe had an affair.
  • (18) Some competitors had travelled from Spain, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands to take part in the series of madcap races.
  • (19) The show's chaos, irreverence and broad wit would be a natural fit for Corden, whose equally madcap turn in One Man, Two Guvnors remains one of his most beloved roles.
  • (20) However, Bolton, despite losing their past five away league matches, arrived intent on attacking rather than containing and that made for an open, madcap contest.

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