Word: gritted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Giving an example of Hwang's grit, Wilson mentioned that Hwang's grit, Wilson mentioned that Hwang ran a marathon as a first-year despite never having run more than six miles...
That kind of grit will serve Yeoh well as she tries to become an Asian leading lady in Hollywood. "The most important thing," she insists, "is to start. Already, you can see minds changing. They're not thinking so much in colors: white, black, Asian. They also recognize that the world market includes Asia--and that's a very big market out there. The curtain is going up, and now we're finally going to be able to have a good show...
...head coach, Steve Mariucci, will take this kid, whom he helped develop into a prospect. He doesn't have Plummer's intangibles or footspeed. I wish they would take Plummer because of his grit, but Barnes is the coach...
...puckered and pouty. The rock-star-satyr features surely helped land him the Morrison role, as well as those cartoon ghosts of the King of Rock 'n' Roll in Top Secret! and True Romance. Yet the look stops just short of drop-dead handsome. Its steely seriousness--all that grit and drive with no hint of easy humor--suggests less Elvis Presley than Elvis Stojko. If Kilmer is to execute the actor's equivalent of a quadruple toe loop, it won't be from movie-star grace but from a triumph of the will...
Members of the department lauded fieser for both her academic and personal contributions to the department. In a 1996 piece, the Chemical and Engineering News said her warmth, style, grit and deep intelligence added immeasurably to the department...