Derring Do

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. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

While some of the librarians sit behind the desk, others engage in even more derring-do. ❋ Steve Leveen (2011)

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. ❋ Sadanand Dhume (2011)

That fall, in a series of articles in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Morros told his tales of derring-do to Rep. Francis E. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

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 (2011)

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. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

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. ❋ Jennet Conant (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

History tells of many [brave] [warriors] and [tales] of derring-do. ❋ Talk2me-JCH2 (2022)