death-or-glory

Anybody who's read more than two of my books can probably figure out that the thing that appeals to me more than anything is death-or-glory stands and inconceivably complicated ethics -- the sort of situation where there are no really good options, and absolutely no safe options, and nobody's coming through unscathed or unbloodied.

do I fall through what I might of been? truepenny 2009

Also, death-or-glory stands, especially involving some sort of brutal self-sacrifice, are a major narrative kink of mine.

i don't mean you're ugly like me, but you're scarred like me. rikibeth 2010

The injuries that have taken their toll on Terry's body have left him too often straining to make death-or-glory interventions but for five years he formed pretty much the ideal combination with Carvalho and their contrasting strengths were almost equal to any challenge.

Judges have a blindspot whenever destroyers like Vidic play a blinder | Rob Bagchi 2011

Haven't we read how the whole of Britain this weekend is rooting for its favorite son, dosing up on tea and biscuits and frantically hitting the refresh button on their live blogs as he enters the death-or-glory stages of the U.S. Open?

Fading Tennis Empires Cling to Their Andys Gerard Baker 2011

She saves one break point with desperate, death-or-glory scrambling along the baseline.

Wimbledon 2010 live blog: 1 July 2010

The daftest, however, is the convention that no one attacks on the run to Paris? at least until the sprinters, a breed apart, unleash their death-or-glory stampede.

Tour de France 2010: Protocol observed for Alberto Contador's coronation 2010

The even greater danger here is that your reckless last-ditch death-or-glory revelation will be greeted with a level of interest normally reserved for Last of the Summer Wine repeats.

Credit Crunch Britain : Cheques and Balances juliette 2009

The even greater danger here is that your reckless last-ditch death-or-glory revelation will be greeted with a level of interest normally reserved for Last of the Summer Wine repeats.

Archive 2009-04-01 juliette 2009

Last night's one, for example, had an overthrown king, an untrustworthy counselor or two, a small band of companions, a menace from tunnels beneath the earth, labyrinthine citadels, night attacks in a harbour, an exodus, and death-or-glory stands.

between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day hawkwing_lb 2007

Fancy-dress parties, unlike emotional openness, child care, and pedicures, are one of those inconsequential and nebulous little things that the English take with an infinite, furrowed-browed, death-or-glory seriousness.

Brits Behaving Badly Gill, A. A. 2007