Jeff Nichols

My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

American Director

Patty Hearst

And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.

American Celebrity

Owen Hart

I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

Canadian Wrestler

Mark McKinnon

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

American Businessman

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

American Politician

George Wallace

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

Robert Green Ingersoll

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

American Lawyer

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

English Poet

Hidetaka Miyazaki

I love throwing down the gauntlet and trying our hand at that new tech.

Japanese Director

Refers specifically to the protective glove knights wore; used in historical or fantasy contexts.

Historic Armament

Symbolizes chivalry, knighthood, and combat; often seen in movies and literature.

Cultural Symbolism

May symbolize strength and defense; useful in metaphorical expressions.

Metaphor for Strength

Originally a military punishment; today often metaphorical for surviving criticism or adversity.

Historical Punishment

Largely historic; use carefully in modern contexts to avoid confusion.

Outdated Usage

Describes modern trials or difficulties one faces, implying a barrage of problems.

Modern Challenges

Use to evoke the emotional toll of enduring back-to-back hardships.

Emotional Impact

Used to challenge someone openly, often in a competitive or confrontational way.

Invoke Competition

When 'throw down the gauntlet' is used, it's an idiom that means issuing a challenge.

Idiomatic Expression

 where many others have ended their evolutionary run. Second, throughout the centuries and up till today, every living adult sea turtle has overcome the odds, existing as a consequence of chance, skill, and capability. The gauntlet each sea turtle faces in the course of its lifetime goes

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 laid down the gauntlet of who can see the first Warburg's eagle and that is definitely not a Warburg's eagle looks to me to be a white back it's not the easiest so there's two of them they're going into a couple little thermal that is generating above and they've probably

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 Humans are altering important stop-over sites that birds have been using for generations. As migrators pass over the continent, they run a gauntlet of dangers, including pesticide ingestion in rural farmlands, habitat loss in suburban developments,

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 the producers completely dismissed rodrigo they told him and his mom look this isn't some kind of parlor game and we're just not interested so rodrigo's mom threw down the gauntlet and my mom said well ask the kid a question if you think

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 still do most of that but Carol wants to know about waffles I want to know about waffles because I haven't gone to see the waffle 'its since yesterday morning's end of the gauntlet series so I'm deeply concerned about the little

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 Unfortunately, the radios also tipped off the robots. So they’ve taken defensive measures to protect the final artifact in its home in the very heart of the city. There’s only one way to get the gauntlet of forking paths.

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 The color washes off the next day, however, for that moment in time, it's their beautiful disruption. This disruption, any kind of dissonance, can be the first gauntlet we throw down in a battle against oppression.

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 the gauntlet like if we don't get raises we're leaving but i think we laid out you know a case and we were clear that you know we wanted to see consideration and some action on that and we did get

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 can't imagine a more terrifying gauntlet in all the world and apparently that particular crossing being ruined by yet another intellectually challenged crocodile I've come to the conclusion

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 they run the gauntlet of two worlds they feed underwater but also need to break the tort surface for air