Word: grit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Suskind believes Jennings possesses admirable traits, including "faith, perseverance, self-knowledge and grit," the author admits that Jennings is "nothing special...
...Badlands (1973). Terence Malick's teenagers-in-love-turn-killers-on-the-road movie, which inspired a thousand imitators. The unheralded gem of American cinema. Raging Bull (1980). The finest sports movie ever made, with grit courtesy of Marty. Citizen Kane (1941). Orson Welles' masterwork remains the ur-text of film schools worldwide because it blew wide open the envelope of cinematic possiblity. Mean Streets (1973). The gritty realism of Scorsese's breakthrough movie began the stylish exploration of the low-rent wiseguy that he completed in "Goodfellas." The Manchurian Candidate (1962). The finest American political film ever goes deep...
With apparent grit and determination, Wei pounded home the necessity for individuals in China to speak...
...those who knew Dole as she grew up twenty years before the heyday of feminism that molded First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton say there was something different about her. There was a grit beneath the glitter of her debutante life...
...Dole's grit won her acceptance to Duke's Women's College, and there, as in high school, she won fame that made her more than simply first among females...