How To Use Derring-do In A Sentence
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‘I was keen to write a pantomime as a pastiche of a classic tale of derring-do,’ said Richard.
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The story is fast-moving and filled with heroic derring-do, impressive action sequences, and deeply-felt tragedy.
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Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
THE KANAKA SURF
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While some of the librarians sit behind the desk, others engage in even more derring-do.
Steve Leveen: When Government and Business Get It Really Right -- Together
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This treasure trove of information details the daring deeds and derring-do of a galaxy of Headingley Stadium stars.
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While the blackout (or greyout?) began at 12:00 a.m. on the East Coast, there have been reports that the site is still visible (even without any escape key derring-do) in timezones where browser clocks have not yet hit midnight.
NYT > Home Page
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But Mr. Ijaz, who has a reputation for grandstanding about his diplomatic derring-do, has released Blackberry chat transcripts with the ambassador that seem to show Mr. Haqqani was one of the authors of the memorandum at the heart of this scandal.
A U.S.-Pakistan Reset
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Just reciting the names conjures up the romantic side of Scottish history, peppered with acts of valour, loyalty, derring-do and occasional folly.
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But I imagined myself not getting a tattoo at twenty-eight; time passes; by the age of thirty-five, I would (I imagined) no longer have the youthful derring-do to go ahead and get the tattoo.
Tattoo in Japan Boing Boing
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A fine mix of drama and derring-do.
The Sun
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Branson, whose derring-do and orthodontic architecture has charmed a million housewives, still presents himself as the youthful whizz-kid, although he is 50 this summer.
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All that radical derring-do is offset by the Zen-like calm of her renovated apartment in the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, purchased 18 months ago.
The Ballad of a Rebel and Her Lost Love
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Some considered it poor form to boast of wartime derring-do.
Times, Sunday Times
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But in 2000 they fell under the spell of Kamal Derwish, a charismatic, deeply religious, fellow Yemeni-American, who told them stirring tales of derring-do about his role in the early-1990s war between the Bosnian Muslims and Serbs.
The Longest War
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On the page and on the screen, "Kick-Ass" riffs on the wish-fulfillment afforded by tales of derring-do and the ill-advisedness of taking on the task in real life.
PaloAltoOnline.com
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The breathtaking display of skill and derring-do by the cadets of the National Cadet Corps on Sunday left one dumbfounded.
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Ellie Thiry was already being monopolized by a Major Francis Basil Summers, a dashing British army intelligence officer who had been on the stage in London before the war and positively reeked of derring-do.
A Covert Affair
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After decades of being considered bad form, tales of imperial derring-do are making something of a comeback.
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The programme will be of interest to those who either know nothing about the siege, or who never tire of hearing the same violent tale of derring-do repeated time and again.
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But the librarian leadership was fired with derring-do, and they decided to go ahead with their plan to do away with Dewey.
Steve Leveen: When Government and Business Get It Really Right -- Together
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Just reciting the names conjures up the romantic side of Scottish history, peppered with acts of valour, loyalty, derring-do and occasional folly.
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My imagination caught fire as I envisioned myself as some kind of lantern-jawed “Dudley Do Right”, heroically battling forest fires like a Montana smoke jumper, pulling off death defying back country rescues in the mountain wilderness, and performing other Forest Rangerly and manly acts of derring-do.
Buffalo Bob and the Honey Dipper
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When he wasn't regaling me with tales of his derring-do at Inchon, Korea in the early 1950s, he waxed lyrical about his oh-so-sexy adventures as a raw recruit at Kapooka in 1949.
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Islands of Wak, and never in all my days saw I mortal heartier of heart than he or doughtier of derring-do, save that love hath mastered him to the utmost of mastery. —
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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That fall, in a series of articles in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Morros told his tales of derring-do to Rep. Francis E.
A Covert Affair
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Lacking gloriousness in themselves, they deny gloriousness to all mankind; too cowardly for whimsy and derring-do, they assert whimsy and derring-do ceased at the very latest no later than the middle ages; flickering little tapers themselves, their feeble eyes are dazzled to unseeingness of the flaming conflagrations of other souls that illumine their skies.
THE KANAKA SURF
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Still, despite its linguistic derring-do, Vernon God Little is less a satire than a burlesque.
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Now, I'm sure some of you with a more sceptical nature might find my tales of invisible derring-do a little hard to believe.
