nothing daunted

daunt | American Dictionary

daunt
verb[ T ]
us/dɔnt, dɑnt/
to make someone feel slightly frightened or worried about his or her ability to achieve something; to discourage:
She’s not at all daunted by criticism.

daunting

adjectiveus/ˈdɔn·tɪŋ, ˈdɑn-/
Reforming the welfare system is a daunting task.

Examples of daunt

daunt
The breadth of the period considered is both daunting and laudable, providing big contexts and allowing the formulation of big questions and answers.
Without the simplifying assumption of ministerial autonomy, there can be little doubt that the task will be a daunting one.
Moreover, it is a truly daunting task to find the needle you are looking for in the enormous haystack of documents that search-engines return.
Although the number of different versions of the paradigm may seem daunting, their definition and use is well motivated, and their interrelations are carefully defined.
Such fatalism comes easily to societies beset by daunting and uncontrollable factors.
They are, however, much too long, and they leave the reader the daunting task of separating the wheat from the chaff.
The state management problem would be daunting without widespread voluntary action by workers.
However, with the advent of the computer such daunting detail and comprehensiveness is more than readily supported by growing database technology and methodology.
The lacuna is especially daunting in state-building historiography.
Another important reason is the daunting methodological problem involved in describing lexical progression in terms of network building.
In any case, the prospects of drawing up a globally defined function for both feasibility and desirability are daunting.
His energy was remarkable and little daunted him.
The abundance of technical manuals for various instruments is daunting, and a review of these will not be attempted here.
I find assessment, timing, and context to be daunting enough goals.
One daunting pitfall is the often complex notation.
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