Venturesome

I thus felt it my duty to enter an urgent warning against the whole project, which I characterized as venturesome and dangerous, I recommended that counsels of moderation he given Austria, as I did not believe that the conflict could be localized (that is to say, it could not be limited to a war between Austria and Serbia). ❋ Richard Joseph Beamish (1895)

The Phoenix Company was known as a venturesome organization, as willing to send its fleet ramping out through the fog to the assistance of a distressed liner as to transport arms to West Indian or Central ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)

On the other hand, if he were timorously charged with loving her, it would have been like him to call the venturesome one a liar -- and mean it, too, in his heart. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)

It turns out that the U.S. has a particularly large number of people who are willing to do something like hand over their precious data to a brand-new startup-the kind of people the economist Amar Bhidé calls "venturesome consumers." ❋ James Surowiecki (2011)

In fact, Mr. Romer and innumerable consumers of transistor-based products such as personal computers have played a critical, "venturesome" role in generating their windfalls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There are one or two in the know who think me "venturesome" but, after all, is not "nothing venture nothing win" an unanswerable retort? ❋ Ian Hamilton (1900)

A few venturesome partners started dancing; others followed. . . ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

The pleasure of witnessing language used in novel and challenging ways (or even just moderately interesting ways), of experiencing the transformative power of written language (the power to transform perception as well as our understanding of what language itself can express) when it is wielded by a particularly venturesome imagination? ❋ Unknown (2010)

And unlike most writing assignments, writing for "publication" gives students the motivation to be more venturesome instead of feeling bound to specific requirements or limitations on what they can write. ❋ Joel Shatzky (2011)

Before Columbus sailed the Atlantic, only a few venturesome land creatures, mostly insects and birds, had crossed the oceans and established themselves. ❋ Charles C. Mann (2011)

The whole idea that the venture capitalists of the 1970s thought of themselves as "venturesome" was interesting to me. ❋ James Wallenstein (2011)

Mr. Fassbender's venturesome Jung conceals, for a while, a searching mind and a passionate heart behind a professionally correct facade, while Mr. Mortensen's rigid Freud conveys calm authority that springs from profound self-regard. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

One wonders if Valente would express the same contempt for a male character engaged in similarly venturesome conduct as Famke Summerfugl. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh, and there's someone named Scarlett Johansson, who seems perfectly lovely and earnest (an early Barack Obama backer in real life) and a very credible action star but, sorry fanboys, is neither the hottest (that's Leslie Bibb, returning as a venturesome Vanity Fair writer) nor the most beautiful (that would be Paltrow) woman in the movie. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the Mile High City\'s coldest day of the year - even the decade, for that matter (OK, 2010 was only seven days old) - venturesome music lovers needed somebody to bring some heat to combat the sub-zero conditions. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the Mile High City's coldest day of the year - even the decade, for that matter (OK, 2010 was only seven days old) - venturesome music lovers needed somebody to bring some heat to combat the sub-zero conditions. ❋ Unknown (2010)