Sentences with phrase «gumption as»

The Mini Bull Terrier has just as much energy and gumption as his big brother, so don't think he won't be as much work.

Not exact matches

Much like serving as a war correspondent, «starting a business requires every bit of imagination, and creativity, and energy, and gumption that you've got,» Hindy says.

While being a loner doesn't rule you out as a potential entrepreneur, lacking social gumption could hinder your success.

For those prepared with gumption and a level head, it was an outstanding time to be an investor, as panic caused a once - in - a-lifetime buying opportunity.

My guess would be that the vast majority of the Republican GOP Tea Party fanatics and misanthropes would be diagnosed as «Bi-polar» if they ever had the gumption to visit a psychiatrist

You ought to have plenty of gumption to raise kids and give them a good start (such as education).

Firstly, hats off to Blunkett for hijacking the third sector's major annual conference and using it as a Fabian launch event — one has to admire his gumption.

Annoyingly, the term «Taliban» has gained currency as a vague political insult - often, I suspect, used by those who lack the gumption to call anyone a Nazi.

Almost fully recovered today after a combination of her thrombectomy, intensive rehabilitation and personal gumption — Dodd sports a tattoo reading, «I can, and I will» — she said, «I am literally standing on this Earth as a wife and a mother because of that procedure.

I spent a good chunk of my eight hours in the office daydreaming about what life would be like if I could gather my gumption, take the leap, and pursue life as a freelance writer.

(And, yes, if that sounds like a line from «Wear Sunscreen,» it is, as Deanna functions as a sage gumption - dispenser to all who come into contact with her.)

[Elisabeth Moss»] take - and the show's take — on the character is a distinct blend of what Atwood once identified as the main thrust of Canadian literature (survival) and a gumption most closely associated with the country Offred once called America.

Over the past decade, Shannon has been increasingly typecast as either a twitchy weirdo on societal margins or an earnest simpleton, but Bahrani, in a stroke of casting gumption that makes one wonder why he's the first to make the move, has redirected the actor's distinctly coiled facial features and natural gift for commanding a room toward a character with genuinely threatening social and economic power.

Once hailed as a «boy genius» with enough gumption to turn Batman into his own darkly personal vision, Tim Burton has lately seemed confused about how to further adapt his singular talent to mainstream entertainment.

Even as the big man struggles to summon enough gumption to fire his floundering employee, honesty compels him to let Mark know of his upcoming dismissal.

Tika Sumpter as Michelle oozes class and a headstrong personality from the get go, and also makes sure to be distinct but, at the same time, showing more personality and gumption than most female characters written in this kind of role.

Even Tatiana Mills (Odeya Rush), who has the gumption to send letters to a Caribbean dictator about to be ousted, projects herself as not a bimbo but a girl who is so uncoordinated that she falls to the ground twice.

But James McTeigue's film is unlikely to get as warm a reception amongst us cynical Europeans who, while being more or less unconcerned with the skin colour of our protagonists, will be more focused on the idiotic plot and the dearth of inspiration, talent or gumption at work.

The delicate and sometimes unpleasant politics of churn are the reason many reformers question whether an elected body, such as a traditional school board, has the gumption to handle tasks as potentially unpopular as declaring schools to be failures and handing them over to more capable managers, or shuttering them altogether.

As expected, the Trofeo arrives with more go - fast goodies to handle the extra gumption.

This massive truck is not for the faint of heart, as it offers the type of performance that you wouldn't dare handle unless you truly had the gumption.

In addition, it is foolish for anyone to compose articles such as the one on this site wherein it is clear that the composer has no credible experience nor a career as a scientist, but yet, has the naive gumption to invoke such a profession as implied canon for what the litmus test for written art should be.

If there is one chief lesson to take away from all of this, it is that doing well as an investor requires patience and the gumption to stick with your ideas.

Anyone with the gumption to talk to a manager can probably resolve the bad view, as well.

And not one of you brought up on this fake fisics has the gumption to admit you've been conned through the education system and by the tried and tested method as Goebels noted — tell a big enough lie loud enough and it will be believed.

Obviously I haven't found any paleo - thermometers conveniently sticking out of said coal seams from which I could read at what temperatures they were formed (I'm sure there are geomarkers that are used as well as recent tree rings), but I currently see no such equivalent conditions on earth and I wonder how «climate scientists» (I always use quotation marks to indicate something I've seen printed elsewhere but don't believe myself) can have the gumption to assume we're currently living through the worst of times climate-wise.

You don't have to learn everything before you start — many people learn as they go — but you have to prove to yourself that you've got the gumption to learn what you need to when you need to.

I was sure they did this to see how many job applicants would simply ignore it, as opposed to how many would have the gumption to actually comment about it.

I think that if they don't show that kind of gumption then all that tells me is that they are not as into me as I must have thought and that perhaps I should consider moving on.