Sentences with phrase «real grit in»

His artistry and quick thinking is a big part of that, but he's also shown real grit in his game over the past 12 months — he's not afraid to put in a tackle or two and help Song with defensive screening work.

Not exact matches

But, in the real world, having grit means having the ability to overcome hardship.

People with grit know that real results only materialize when you put in the time and forego instant gratification.

The Gunners went through a nervy encounter with Blackburn last time out and needed to produce a performance of real grit and determination to come away with all three points, although had Fabregas been in the shake up Arsenal probably would have won more comfortably, as there was space in the midfield to be exploited.

«You discover things about yourself in this job, which is that I am someone of real steel and grit, which is why I stood for the job in the first place when many people said I should not.»

Last year one such primer — Bounce: Overcoming Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy — proclaimed: «By strengthening your inner power, your ability to handle stressful situations and your skill in persevering after setbacks threaten to fell you, you'll develop real resilience — you'll develop grit.»

Shot on location in real West Virginia coal - mining towns, the film does carry the American Gothic grit you expect to see in such places.

A gripping two - and - a-half hour reinvention of the man - in - tights genre that delved into real moral and ethical ambiguities, it showed maturity without going for R - rated grit and gore, and, in Heath Ledger's Joker, had one of the most iconic performances in modern cinema at its centre.

The real contest is between Stone, bringing grace and grit to every actor's struggle in La La Land, and Portman, embodying the newly forged steel in JFK's widow in Jackie.

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Along with Firth and Eisenberg, best - actor contenders are Javier Bardem as a dying father in the Spanish - language drama «Biutiful,» which also is up for best foreign - language film; Bridges as boozy lawman Rooster Cogburn in «True Grit,» a role that earned John Wayne an Oscar for the 1969 adaptation of the Western novel; and James Franco in the real - life tale of a climber trapped in a crevasse after a boulder crushes his arm in «127 Hours.»

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Best Actor: Jeff Bridges — True Grit — an amusing, disgusting, powerful presence that makes everything seem possible & REAL Jesse Eisenberg — Social Network — smart, subtle, fearless & very, very funny in a very, very specific way Colin Firth — King's Speech — appropriately pompous with vulnerability the audience adores — a true star turn and a true joy to behold James Franco — 127 Hours — wild and impassioned and believable with manliness battling it out with sensitivity in almost every frame Hrithik Roshan — Guzaarish — remarkably vulnerable with an edge of steel and a level of frustrated yearning that blew me away

Denzel Washington's sheer charisma would probably make him a half - decent coach in real life, and while the movie indulges in many of the expected cliches, it's got heart and grit to spare.

Having access to these kinds of competitions and events accelerates learning, builds grit and exposes students to the real - world working environments, which is paramount for the UK to uphold and indeed break through the current level of catering expertise we have on offer in our towns and cities.

In Fostering Grit, veteran school leader and popular Educational Leadership columnist Thomas R. Hoerr answers, How do I prepare my students for the real world?

I shudder to think how much money has been lost playing against this spread — a real lesson in risk control — I'm convinced we'll see the spread back to zero, but if you were in a trade like this would you bail out when the spread blew through, say, a $ 10 stop loss to avoid further pain, or grit your teeth and attempt to remain solvent through a $ 27 + peak?

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Lygia Pape: Magnetised Space This Brazilian artist who shoved abstract forms up against the grit of real life practised art, in her own words, as «a way of getting to know the world».

At Grit Real Estate Income Group Bronwyn played a significant role in listing and converting the group to its current pan-African focus, underpinned by US dollar - based leases.

The real risk - takers are the less - than - good - looking sots who try it with nothing in their arsenals but grit, determination, smarts and a sense of public duty (altruism); that's a lot of nothing to be proud of.