gutsily

Somehow, Heinicke gutsily held on to the ball, didn’t fumble or take a safety to lose the game.

Whatever the truth — and it’s worth noting that Ball had gutsily stood up to McCarthyism in the not-too-distant past — her testimony was a master class in deflection.

What works here: While a neutral light fixture would have calmed the chaos, the lamp’s Chinese-vase base gutsily remixes the wall covering’s palette and offsets the insistent geometry with a loose, figurative scheme.

Of his nadir in 1984, he gutsily told a roomful of strangers he had gone flat broke then and said, “I had failed dismally.”

We ask this because the Milk, today's band under scrutiny, seem so gustily and gutsily intent on proving the point they make the band from The Commitments look like Kraftwerk.