The crowd is amazed and he is pleased with his new "death-defying" act.

Next, the death-defying act from the stewardesses, those bashful girls and their oxygen mine.

NOW that the stock market's death-defying act of last Tuesday is receding into memory, can investors return to their tried-and-true bull market ways?

It springs from deep confidence but also a tendency to engage in death-defying acts.

But southern Sudan is particularly destitute, for the continent's longest-running war makes even farming a death-defying act.

Consequently, if a death-defying act was to be performed, it was always a good idea to arrive after it had been, successfully or not, completed.

It was a death-defying act to go out there not quite knowing our lines on Tuesday night.

True, death-defying acts of heroism may be the province of the few.

In a city where everyday survival can sometimes feel like a death-defying act, adventure pursuits might seem redundant.

Every willed gesture, no matter how sloppy, becomes a death-defying act.