Literary notes about daring (AI summary)
The word daring is employed in literature to convey both heroic boldness and a reckless or hesitant defiance in the face of risk. In some works, it illuminates the spirit of innovation and brave ambition, as when a character’s mind sparks with daring ideas that lead to remarkable feats ([1]) or when an individual makes a fortune through sheer audacity ([2]). In other portrayals, the term illustrates internal conflicts—where characters, gripped by fear or social constraint, refrain from action, as seen when one is not daring to look back amid peril ([3],[4],[5]). Moreover, daring often underscores the valor in grand military strategies and personal challenges, highlighting acts that redefine conventional boundaries, whether on the battlefield or in subtle defiance of societal norms ([6],[7],[8],[9],[10]).
- Fire gleamed in his eyes, and occasionally the boldest and most daring ideas flitted through his mind.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - With my own skill and daring I have made my own fortune.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray - He began to run towards the shed, not daring to look behind him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - She gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - Dismay fell on every one present, no one daring to break the painful, horrible silence.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. Werner - While for daring patriotism we had no competitors.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides - Coroebus then, with youthful hopes beguil’d, Swoln with success, and a daring mind, This new invention fatally design’d.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil - I was only angry, my dear—I may say outrageous—with the Independent people for daring to insert it; that’s all.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - Edgar, I was defending you and yours; and I wish Heathcliff may flog you sick, for daring to think an evil thought of me!’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - From here went forth daring vikings, who discovered Greenland and Vinland, and showed Columbus the way to America.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson