a person who seeks out very dangerous or foolhardy adventures with no apparent fear
an incorrigible madcap who loves drag racing and white-water rafting
The 152 rooms celebrate Tasmania’s cultural and creative spirit, from the contemporary paintings of thylacines and Tasmanian devils, to the Blackheart sassafras ceiling inlays.
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Riley Wilson,
Travel + Leisure,
19 June 2026
But there are lots of potential devils in the details (otherwise there’d be little need for experimental reactors).
Test your news knowledge with this week's Fox News Digital News Quiz, featuring a primary upset in Colorado, while police identify the Empire State Building climbers as foreign daredevils.
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Staff,
FOXNews.com,
3 July 2026
The two daredevils who scaled the spire of the Empire State Building while the world watched have been grounded by the New York Police Department and are now the targets of a criminal investigation.
Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.
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William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
But there’s still something delectable about Guillermo del Toro, a director who is both a visionary and a genre classicist, returning to the original horror novel, the tale of monsters and madmen that gave birth to all subsequent tales of monsters and madmen.
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