Word: daunting
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This was perhaps the most uneven match of the day, as Fayanju rose almost one foot above Smith. This didn’t appear to daunt her as she sassed her way to the table, eager to get her game on because she had a meeting to go to in half an hour. In less than two seconds Fayanju pounded Smith’s arm into the picnic table, almost shattering Smith’s ulna. For the second round they decided to use their left arms. Whispers of “she’s left-handed?...
...greatest strengths. Freshman seminars allow students to branch out from the field they’ll be studying for the next three years, and sometimes even cause students to change their intended plan of study. Any move that would discourage students from diversifying their academic experience would daunt the fresh curiosity of first-years. Additionally, because freshman seminars are lotteried, it would be unfair to grant concentration credit to only those students who are accepted...
Idealism does not daunt Brother Blue. In fact, no dream is too big for him. His words are both blunt and cliché. “Love will overcome all in this world. Love’s gonna win. Nothing can stop this. There will be these fools that come along, and I don’t mind being that fool, who is trying to express that,” he says. “I have this madness—volition—this chosen madness to believe that I can change this world.” And within...
...agony. Pure agony. I just try to get the best language down on paper. I value language more than anything.” Though this venerable author cited difficulty in writing due to a mental impediment, he added, “I don’t let it daunt me if I don’t produce much in one day. I just do what I can and wait for the next...
None of this seems to daunt Barrett, who has been exposing bogus health claims since the late 1970s, when he first surveyed health-related mail-order ads in national magazines and discovered that none of them lived up to their claims. His findings spurred legislation that authorizes the Federal Government to levy penalties of $25,000 a day on repeat mail-order offenders...