daredevilry

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As a record of raw Broadway talent, there may never be a greater cast album than the one on which Barbra Streisand, at 21, was captured in a state of wild, almost feral daredevilry.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

As symbols go, Niagara Falls offers plenty: a source of power, daredevilry, a bucolic vacation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2018

But the potential price of such daredevilry was brought home in August last year, at another popular site near Chamonix – the Couloir Ensa, where Polli was keen to try out a new corkscrew manoeuvre.

From The Guardian • Oct. 23, 2017

If the city has traditionally been knocked for anything, it’s that very safeness; a detour here ranks as low on the daredevilry scale as those T-bills.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2016

I possess no knack of medical knowledge, but I boldly state my opinion that such daredevilry must necessarily inflict a deleterious result to the nervous organisms of these riders; and, who knows, of their posterity?

From Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. by Anstey, F.