The former president dramatically returned to Pakistan in March 2013 to compete in elections, ending four years of self-imposed exile and defying death threats.
Merely trying to navigate around these less-than-noble steeds can be a death defying demarche.
George MacDonald Fraser, in the Flashman books, parodied this love of the upper class, well mannered, death defying hero.
In 1995, Allen collaborated with May and David Mamet on Death Defying Acts, three one-act comedies which ran for nearly a year.
But police said it was dangerous and warned youngsters not to try the death-defying stunts.
The comedian returns to standup and finds new joy in, and respect for, the art of death-defying.
On April 11, it will have been forty-three years since the Apollo 13 lunar mission became one of the greatest death-defying adventures in history.
In 1994's mountain-climbing thriller Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone did most of the apparently death-defying stunts himself, while suspended by safety wires and protected by nets.
Malala was attacked by extremists while she was on a school bus, because of her known efforts from an early age to promote the right to education for girls, defying obstacles and even death threats.
Large air shows like those feature pilots pulling seemingly death-defying maneuvers in all manner of aircraft from biplanes to jets, precision formation flying, skydivers jumping from planes and, of course, screeching military jets pulling high-G maneuvers.
At Walt Disney World, families travel in packs - with younger kids waiting in the wings while older siblings attack rides with death-defying drops, and older siblings dragging their feet as younger kids wait in line for a photo op with Mickey.
His technique is convention-shattering, death-defying, mesmerizing.
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Then you can walk down the steps and have a pleasant lunch and justify the second glass of cold Bergerac wine by virtue of having to pedal all the way back to Treyne in time for Champagne cocktails on the patio and one last death-defying inhalation of foie gras.
"There's something inherently wrong with setting up a race that you can only win by breaking the speed limit, " says Susan Kang, attorney for the Flint family, adding that even after Flint's death Strava users continued setting KOMs on that course, a feat that requires defying the posted speed limit amid often heavy automotive traffic.
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