valiance

Example Sentences

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Nowadays, Thewlis’ return to something approximating our old-fashioned picture of Holmes reminds us of sensibility’s valiance in a world given to absurdity and madness.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025

Considering that this superstar once strode across the world’s biggest stages with the valiance of a freak, she now seems to be exuding the quiet desperation of a fraud.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2016

I applaud State House Speaker Philip Gunn for his valiance to start a “conversation” about the flag.

From Time • Jun. 25, 2015

"I had to tell the story ... the valiance, the heroism, the sacrifices, the personal giving for causes bigger than yourself," says Olsen, now a 76-year-old professional artist living in Georgia.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2012

This is the wonder, always, everywhere— Not that vast mutability which is event, The pits and pinnacles of change, But man's desire and valiance that range All circumstance, and come to port unspent.

From Abraham Lincoln by Drinkwater, John