gallantness

Far rarer than the invocation of trauma to explain, often glibly, how a broken character got to be the way they are is the exploration of how—outside of some gallant display of supernatural powers—such characters might reconstruct themselves.

This moral rebel, who leaps into battle with a smile and the motto “justice for all,” set the stage for all the gallant swashbucklers who followed.

“Saved the puppy from getting eaten by an alligator and never dropped his cigar, a true legend,” read one tweet, while others said the devoted dog dad deserved a medal for the gallant rescue.

He just made the gallant, grand decision to free up his day to spend more time with Jennifer Aniston.

One “gallant old doctor” says he finds it unsuitable she is in a mortuary.

He got married (“one wife enough”), had kids, left his job, survived a few more attacks, went gray, and no longer drove a Gallant.

I plan to see if he can pick me up in a Gallant—for good luck.

"My God, My Glock, and my Gallant" Above hardpan deserts, red dawns chased away Orion, the Hunter, day after night.

M was a Miser, and hoarded up gold; N was a Nobleman, gallant and bold.

The white men served their smoking cannon with a wild energy that, for a time, made the gallant nine equal to a thousand.

He wrote a letter to Sir Hugh Wheeler warning the gallant old general that he might expect to be attacked forthwith.

Of the sixty men who charged, but eleven reached the guns, the rest had fallen, and among them the gallant Major.

Sword in hand the gallant Prince of Moskowa led the magnificent veterans to the attack.