Word: grit
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...according to her teammates, this type of grit is commonplace for McDavitt...
...favorite, who see in each other a way to trump Sistani's power. The ayatullah is agitating for changes that would give Islamic parties aligned with him a higher profile. While the cleric has not tried to negotiate the specifics, observers say that is as far into the grit of politics as he has ventured. He has to show Shi'ites that the election can benefit them, says Katzman. If it doesn't, he risks a damaging loss of legitimacy among ordinary Shi'ites that demagogues like al-Sadr will try to exploit...
...simple and severe, it had a classical elegance that many felt had gone out of fiction since the literary experimentation of Modernism. As his novels grew darker, readers found a philosophy behind his work, a vision of the world as a relentless pressure that had to be resisted with grit and intelligence. But when Naipaul began churning out books of reportage on the countries he visited, the fiction writer shriveled: his 1980s and '90s were dominated by journalism, with a few exceptions such as his semiautobiographical novel The Enigma of Arrival (1987). Then in 2001 came Half a Life...
There are farmwives and churchwomen of grit and industry and waitresses who wore their aprons proudly as professionals. Men recall mothers with plenty of spunk who were up at dawn to pack lunches for school or hang wash with clothespins pulled from an apron's bottomless pocket. Grandmas figure prominently. The tales of their ease and intimacy while they sewed together or rolled out dough remind the viewer that sometimes a grandmother with a bosom might be preferable to one with biceps...
...form a graphic novel. At the same time it happens to be one of the most interesting gay-themed comix to come around in a long while. Set in San Francisco's trans-gendered, drug addict underground, its smart writing and stylish graphics move fluidly between grit and transcendence. Divided into four short stories rather than a single narrative, each chapter features Catherine Gore, a lanky, androgynous lesbian with a drug habit and a talent for observation and story telling. The first chapter typifies the book's consistently refreshing unconventionality. The story details Catherine's brief but obsessive love affair...