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  • adjective Not intimidated

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  • adjective not shrinking from danger

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Examples

  • The now-rote hysteria with which non-Israeli criticism of Israel is met -- most recently dismayingly effective in quashing Chas Freeman as President Obama's nominee to chair the National Intelligence Council -- has a considerable and ignoble record of stifling opinion and preventing unintimidated, meaningful discussion, in the cultural sphere as well as in the political.

    axisoflogic.com 2009

  • The now-rote hysteria with which non-Israeli criticism of Israel is met -- most recently dismayingly effective in quashing Chas Freeman as President Obama's nominee to chair the National Intelligence Council -- has a considerable and ignoble record of stifling opinion and preventing unintimidated, meaningful discussion, in the cultural sphere as well as in the political.

    The Nation: Top Stories 2009

  • He is also mad, measurably so, but saner than all others, with the best sanity, the only sanity worth bothering about — the living, creative, vulnerable, valorous, unintimidated, and arrogant sanity of a free man.

    william saroyan | part II « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

  • He is also mad, measurably so, but saner than all others, with the best sanity, the only sanity worth bothering about — the living, creative, vulnerable, valorous, unintimidated, and arrogant sanity of a free man.

    January « 2010 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010

  • And—for the true carnivores among us—why was no place found for steak tartar raw shaved beef with a garnish of egg, onion, capers and, sometimes, caviar, a staple in most of Europe and still featured in American restaurants unintimidated by the health-food crazies?

    Classics Made New Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011

  • They're unintimidated by higher levels of accomplishment, since anyone can do it, since Guided by Voices are as "well known" as Slint and as Spoon and as Team Dresch and as . . .

    Portland Music Listener [Card #5: The Heirophant] (WORK-IN-PROGRESS) Christopher Snyder 2011

  • He was a pretty big guy, who would make a point of approaching any crowd of rowdies, who would generally demonstrate their rowdiness by what was then called ‘mopery’, which basically meant being publicly unintimidated.

    Matthew Yglesias » What if Bernanke Isn’t Reconfirmed 2010

  • Wearing a tie but no jacket, Sawyer appeared unintimidated by the Rayburn Building's high-ceilinged chamber.

    After prison, building a new life means more than just doing right Alex Halperin 2011

  • That sentiment seems to express distrust of Americans, intimidation by the still unintimidated Taliban, and President Karzai's personal, on the spot vow that the citizens would not be subject to the planned indignities.

    Michael Brenner: America's Stranded Armies 2010

  • That sentiment seems to express distrust of Americans, intimidation by the still unintimidated Taliban, and President Karzai's personal, on the spot vow that the citizens would not be subject to the planned indignities.

    Michael Brenner: America's Stranded Armies 2010

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