If he gutsily agrees, that would be a pleasant surprise, but he'll decline, as is his right.

"If I listened to public opinion, I wouldn't do anything," he countered gutsily.

With his point of view frozen out of the compromise, Mr. Gingrich gutsily said no.

Once more, Paula moved in, going gutsily herself with a small guard to negotiate, while readying her armed forces and artillery behind her.

The dances tell no stories, but move gutsily and sweetly about the stage in geometric paths and shifting ensembles.

The performing was stylish, but the dance itself was less interesting than earlier, more gutsily imaginative pieces by this first-rate troupe.

He is gutsily prescient in seeing a danger in blurring adversarial lines by too-frequent switching of hats.

The divorced Governor has gutsily defended his friendship with the recently divorced wife of the billionaire John Kluge.

It is a typical Tom Snyder interview, consisting in almost equal measure of obvious intelligence, annoying irrelevance, the gutsily personal and the unabashedly egocentric.

But she and John Selya, gutsily flamboyant in the Gypsy solo, should sue for new wig and costume.

He is gutsily running again, but his time won't come until Russians tire of stagnation, weary of war and are no longer bamboozled by the Kremlin-controlled media.

I never met a Library Writer, but this book is most helpful on punctuation, abbreviation and the arcana of desk-top publishing, and it gutsily takes positions.

Mr. Regan thought the President still had all his marbles and would gutsily rise to the occasion; but the top of the henpecking order evidently thought not.

Gutsily athletic and angelic, the dancers share a bold but unself-conscious approach to movement that in part gives Mr. Klein's choreography its look of dewy freshness.

The Asian Wall Street Journal gutsily reprinted "The Story That Got a Reporter Jailed."

An injured Jon Kitna gutsily leads the Lions to Jason Hanson's game-winning field goal after a Minnesota fumble.

Having zapped Christopher for Bosnia weakness long before it became popular, I can hardly fault him now for gutsily asserting U.S. policy to the Chinese.

The gamblers won a ballot initiative in Arizona, where voters called on the Governor to sign a casino deal with Indian tribes - though he gutsily says he won't.

Martin Peretz, owner of The New Republic, has just fired his editor-columnist, the gutsily gifted Michael Kelly, for taking too strong a stand against Clinton-Gore campaign crimes.

Charley Hayward, an actor, spits out his ringside narration brilliantly and gutsily from a balcony while on stage the danced images offer a negative contrast to the fighter's public adulation.

In Coney Island, Norma Jaime gutsily offered her body to the sun, covered only with a bathing suit, a tattoo of the Puerto Rican flag and some butter.

But in addressing that group in Cleveland, President Clinton threw out the Eastern and gutsily used the Holbrooke formulation: "Look at what is happening in Central Europe.

(This approach is how a speaker strikes the pose of an iconoclast, gutsily opposing the elites who set the fashions and settling instead on the side of the common people who vote.)

That means telling the whole truth now and gutsily facing the consequences later, which would give credence to his argument that the concealment of adultery is not the "high" crime that justifies removal.

E. Ward Gilman of Merriam-Webster agrees, but Garner, up there on the ramparts with Burchfield-Fowler, gutsily holds that "the historic differentiation between these words should not be muddled."