Word: stalwartness
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...Hong Kong's legislature if?as seems likely?supporters of democracy win control in September's elections. Last week, the rhetoric grew sharper as pro-Beijing figures in Hong Kong referred to opposition leaders as "clowns" and "dreamers." And a China-backed newspaper in Hong Kong compared Democratic Party stalwart Martin Lee to a World War II collaborator for traveling to Washington to brief senior U.S. officials on the state of democracy in Hong Kong...
...Catamounts mustered a more cohesive attack in the second, but with a stalwart defensive effort from the blueliners in front of him, Grumet-Morris was barely threatened, casually brushing aside the additional challenges...
...Ring films, like Master and Commander, celebrate old-fashioned martial virtues: honor, duty, comradeship, sacrifice--soldiering on, under an immense, sapping burden. Though the trilogy percolates with bracing adventure, it is a testament to the long slog of any war. Pain streaks the faces of the film's stalwart warriors. They know the enormity of their foe and know that the child hobbit who bears the Ring is far from them--surely in peril, perhaps lost forever. At one point Aragorn asks Gandalf, "What does your heart tell you?" and in a little movie epiphany, the wizard's face briefly...
...Fans of the first film might be surprised to see Leung co-starring in IA3 along with stalwart police chief Wong (Anthony Wong) and triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang), since all three were dead by the end of the original. But IA3 directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak solve that potential casting problem by shifting the third film back and forth in time, a few months before the first IA and a few months after its end, when a seemingly free-and-clear Ming rejoins the cops. With Yan, Wong and Sam shimmering across the screen like walking phantoms...
...Fields] is obviously our go-to-guy,” BU coach Jack Parker said. “He’s the guy to be the stalwart back there...