Word: steadfastly
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...meticulous carpentry of Haruf's prose, all those spare run-on sentences, owes debts to Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy. Haruf's words lend weight to the takeout-pizza boxes and so forth of modern Colorado. So is it churlish to point out that behind the facade of its steadfast language, this is a fairly sentimental book? And one too much in thrall to its own lugubrious music, which is no substitute for narrative drive. It's a fine line between gravity and listlessness. Time and again Eventide drifts gently across it. --By Richard Lacayo
...checkout clerk on the Eastern seaboard, has been given the honor of making an inspirational speech, but before his speech he has gotten drunk and cloistered himself in the bathroom to vomit. He is encouraged by his co-worker Gary Girard (Kevin LaVelle) and tormented by the diabolical Stuart Steadfast (Greg Luzitano), who wants to steal his glory. Stuart’s momentary presence is the best part of this sequence; his cruel, demonic laughter is accompanied by melodramatic flashes of thunder and lightning. The rest of the sketch tends to drag, and by the end, when Bertrand starts talking...
...aside from the Harvard band—steadfast in its support of both hockey teams during their winter campaigns—and those small circles of friends and family able to squeeze in time to travel to watch a game, the throng of Crimson fans share one trait: they've been on the other side and felt what it's like when just about nobody cares. This self-contained community of athletes, current and former, support one another in their otherwise neglected pursuits and provide the loudest voice in the crowd, particularly when the stakes are highest...
...fear, they will stop at nothing to do so. As long as there are candidates around the world willing to yield to terrorists’ pressure, there will be plenty of opportunities. The bombings in Spain were nothing short of a catastrophe, but they must be answered with a steadfast rejection of the use of violence as an assault on freedom. To do anything else, only serves the objections of terrorism. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened this weekend...
...road along the way. The Catamounts opened their season with a 13-game winless streak that threatened to carry over into the team’s Christmas holiday. But while the faith of most players in their young coach might have wavered, Vermont’s skaters remained steadfast...