Word: dauntless
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...scenes is flawed by overacting, but steadily improves, leaps the last and highest hurdle magnificently. In the sleepwalking scene, Actress Anderson, with her sick, half-strangled voice, her tottering, sleep-locked footsteps, above all in the terrifying movement of her "bloody" hands, really conveys the ruin of a once dauntless and unflinching nature...
When we were much younger we had the enlightening experience of reading a book about a Yalie named Frank Merriwell. The climax of the volume came when lithe, brave, dauntless, handsome Merriwell snagged a 60-yard pass out of the hands of a pair of burly Harvard men and ran ninety-nine yards for a touchdown to win the game for an underdog Eli eleven. The crowd cheered and young ladies swooned and we put down the book and decided not to spend our collegiate career, in New Haven...
...Dauntless for the Douglas...
...face of the Japanese pounding, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told his people: "Show your dauntless spirit in this crucial hour. . . . China's sons will soon be avenged...
Catherine of Aragon is a smooth, vivid, ripely meditated job of historical reconstruction, which brings the luckless, dauntless queen into a full human light. Catherine changed the course of history not by riding with the tide of events but by standing against it, like a great rock in a stream...