toughness

• “He spends the rest of his piece outlining what he calls the toughness gap, but what he has illustrated is in fact a decency gap.”

  Newsweek: Mail Call: Debating The Merits Of George W. Bush

• “Close with it, wrestle it: sheer obstinate toughness of muscle; but much more, what we call toughness of heart, which will mean persistence hopeful and even desperate, unsubduable patience, composed candid openness, clearness of mind: all this shall be”

  Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.

• “Close with it, wrestle it: sheer obstinate toughness of muscle; but much more, what we call toughness of heart, which will mean persistance hopeful and even desperate, unsubduable patience, composed candid openness, clearness of mind: all this shall be 'strength' in wrestling your dragon; the whole man's real strength is in this work, we shall get the measure of him here.”

  Past and Present

• “That kind of toughness is a big reason they lead the NHL with 33 points.”

  USATODAY.com

• “But as long as hard hits are part of the fabric of the game, a mark by which players 'toughness is measured, one rule change will not be enough.”

  The Washington Post: More to be done

• “But the people of Michigan are tough, too, and this toughness is reflected on the football field by the Lions.”

  The Washington Post: Political Football: Ghost of Lions games past

• “There was always a certain toughness about him, a stony aloofness, a quality Uncle Merlin likes to call “flintiness.””

  Lance Mannion:

• “Not only the way he played through the physical pain, but to have that mental toughness is completely admirable.”

  Cardinals' Freese on hot seat at hot corner

• “Clinton's so called toughness is divisive unless you are in her camp.”

  Easley on Clinton: She makes Rocky look like a 'pansy'

• “(AP) - The veteran Dallas Mavericks gave the Portland Trail Blazers a lesson in toughness and discipline.”

  USATODAY.com

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