Word: stalwartism
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...film. Those who were at one time enemies become friends, and friends become foe. When all is said and done, Ryan is the single remaining person to have kept his word while protecting himself. He does not have any outside interests to motivate him. His purpose is to remain stalwart in his beliefs...
...country element to Blues. With supreme guitar picking (a turquoise electrical one, no less), he whined and whimpered and returned to the loud heaviness of metal and would then continue into a more mellow sound. His repertoire was wide and varied. While well on the way to becoming a stalwart of the Blues scene, his future looks golden...
...said about his family's move to Manchuria, which was then occupied, like Korea, by Japan. The truth would not have been in keeping with Kim's official cult of Korean identity and national self-sufficiency. In official history, Kim was always the Korean partisan, the Korean communist stalwart, ever on the Korean front. But his guerrilla days were spent with anti-Japanese militias set up by the Chinese. And the name Il Sung, a common one among the fighters, may have been bestowed on him by comrades in one of those Chinese-led armies...
...easily identify a romantic comedy, tells us something: this movie, written by Ronald Bass and Al Franken, doesn't want to harrow; it wants to ingratiate. As Alice, Meg Ryan never lets drink ravage her; even her hangovers are perky. As her husband, Andy Garcia is unfailingly, rather boringly, stalwart. Well, this is the '90s, when weekends aren't allowed to be lost, only politely postponed...
...These are the times that try men's souls." Four snowfalls in over a week would be trying anywhere, but nowhere more so than in Cambridge, Mass. Snow here is especially difficult, due to the cavalier disregard with which it is treated by the authorities of our stalwart burgh. I mean, of course, the fact that it simply isn't plowed here. It seems that here they leave snow clearance to the melting action of the tire pressure of those unfortunates still driving on the treacherous by-ways, so that the streets look like Pompeii with its well-preserved wagon...