Example sentences for: undaunted

How can you use “undaunted” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There is something impressive about a writer so undaunted by a character's trivial unpleasantness, by his daily acts of meanness.

  • What's really important is not the size of the M&A boom but the fact that merge-bent companies are forging ahead undaunted despite all the evidence that the vast majority of acquisitions do not add value to the economy as a whole.

  • He has not always been successful, but, undaunted, he soldiers on.

  • This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)

  • Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg.


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