sitzfleisch

Germans call sitzfleisch, is a fair type of the majority of Southern hotels, and differs from the same class in the North in being left a little more to run itself.

On Horseback Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Germans call sitzfleisch, is a fair type of the majority of Southern hotels, and differs from the same class in the North in being left a little more to run itself.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

It emerged that surprisingly few lacked what in England used to be called real “bottom,” the solid foundations of sterling character, indeed the sitzfleisch with which truly to benefit from the transition from therapy back to normal life.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

It emerged that surprisingly few lacked what in England used to be called real “bottom,” the solid foundations of sterling character, indeed the sitzfleisch with which truly to benefit from the transition from therapy back to normal life.

Stray notes for a futuristic novel 2009

What you're doing in this exercise is building your capacity for zero-fear, nonperfectionistic writing which, in turn, leads to sitzfleisch, or the capacity to sit and write for long periods.

Hillary Rettig: How to Get Past the NaNoWriMo Danger Point and Finish Your Novel Hillary Rettig 2010

I don't really have the sitzfleisch for today's overextended Hollywood movies.

Spider Man 3 News from Sci Fi 2007

Incidentally, my own sitzfleisch builder for law school was Mailer's The Executioner's Song.

AP English and literary knowledge 2009

I suspect that what these novels test for, and are intended to test for, is sitzfleisch.

AP English and literary knowledge 2009

Both plays are unusual for each playwright; Hughie, set in the lobby of a 1920's fleabag hotel in New York, is a short and succinct piece, which, for those of us with the sitzfleisch to make it through three-plus hours of Mr. O'Neill's other works like Long Day's Journey Into Night, is a change of pace.

Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape 2008

I spoke again with Rice during the lunch break, urging that we needed what Germans call “sitzfleisch”—which means exactly what it sounds like—and a little patience.

Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007

You need sitzfleisch (ZITS–flysh), or “chair glue,” which—as Quartz’s Anne Quito notes—is a German word for the ability to sit through a boring or complex task for a considerable amount of time, however long it takes.

This Lifehack Will Change Your Life—If You Can Stand It Ephrat Livni 2023