Word: fearless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Like most jobs that PRTM takes, this one involves sending a small group of consultants to work at the client's location for several months. At PRTM, they believe in working at the client's location and getting the client's staff deeply involved in the project. Tom (the fearless leader) proudly told me that PRTM has been called "the hands-on consulting firm" and Wang cited the firm's "roll-up-our-sleeves" style as one of its most attractive features...
Directors exhaust superlatives extolling Hoffman's craft. "He's extraordinarily committed to infinitesimal detail," says Schumacher. "I don't think there's anything he can't do," raves Minghella. Adds Solondz: "Whatever genius is, he has it. He's fearless. I love...
...stumble upon it, may be overrated. The late literary critic Lionel Trilling noted that authenticity was a relatively modern idea. Until the Romantic era, you were not supposed to reveal your true self to the world. Now, that's all we're supposed to do. But think of our fearless World War II leaders. What if F.D.R. had let it all hang out about his physical pain, or Winston Churchill had talked through his depression? Keeping things to yourself isn't the worst thing for a candidate, a leader--or the rest...
Even at ground level, the Valley is a preserve of fearless entrepreneurs. Nirav Tolia passed up $10 million in Yahoo stock options to start epinions.com a shopping-guide website. "I don't know if I would call it living dangerously," he says. "At Yahoo I realized that money was not the driver for me. It's the sense of adventure...
...worst fate in the world, but I had always loved to drive, and my few attempts to do so in rehab--driving a Buick with my fearless instructor, Giri Sipajlo, down New York City's F.D.R. Drive--proved unsatisfactory. I kept bumping other cars. Not very hard and not very seriously, but often enough. I gave...