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

• “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

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Hillary Rettig: How to Get Past the NaNoWriMo Danger Point and Finish Your Novel

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

  AP English and literary knowledge

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

  AP English and literary knowledge

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

  Spider Man 3 News from Sci Fi

• “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

• “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.”

  Simon & Schuster: Surrender is not an Option

• “If Dominguez tried to win with head-hunting, Carlsen's preferred modus operandi is sitzfleisch: head for a technical position, do nothing better than the opponent, and wait for the errors.”

  The Chess Mind

• “His other advantage is shoe leather or, in his case, sitzfleisch - up to six hours a day online, not all continuous.”

  Economic Principals

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