braves

When John braves the State Department’s byzantine phone tree, he soon becomes so irate that he grabs a beer and a hammer.

A returning participant braves sharing first by congratulating everyone for transforming from strangers into a community in just one hour.

Pity the poor pedestrian who braves Seattle’s sidewalks.

He’s a polar explorer who regularly braves the coldest places on the planet — Antarctica, Greenland, the North Pole — where temperatures can reach minus-50.

But Barr rolls his eyes at the idea that he is a hermit, and at the notion that he valiantly braves whiteout winters.