Welch's liking is for narrators who have weathered hardship and have a steely spine and are commenting on what happened to them, or describing the ordeal.
His hands are callused from work, and his handsome, double-thick pork-chop face has clearly weathered hardship and disappointment, but the new life he finds on the margins of society is touched by a peculiar kind of grace.
They can weather hardship and deprivation and other conditions that would make other flies drop dead.
But the moment I heard the distinctive voice of my protagonist, Saba, her world – a lawless place of wild weather, hardship and danger – rushed into focus.
That sacred oath, to the U.S. Constitution, to the people of our nation and to my fellow Marines to be faithful, no matter what the hardship or challenge, weather in combat or in peace, is the omnipotent and omnipresent element that continues to bind Marines today, whether serving, released, or retired.
Thank you to all of the individuals and the first generation of Vietnamese immigrants who weathered hardships at sea, on land, and in their new host countries.
Faced with the foreclosure of her home, Detroit resident LaKeisha Tuggle devised creative solutions to weather economic hardship.
"In the 170 plus years since the Opium War of 1840, our great country has weathered untold hardships," Mr. Hu said, according to a translation of his speech by Xinhua, the state news agency.
Both Fey and Moran evidently spent their childhoods in a constant state of mortification and weathered the hardships brought on by extreme nerdiness only to emerge in adulthood as wildly successful comic writers.
Such news, in a city whose homicide rate once inspired "N.Y.P.D. Blue" and "Law and Order," can be oddly disconcerting to those who take civic pride from weathering urban hardship.
A study of 583 religious societies around the world has concluded that humans are more likely to believe in powerful and judgmental gods during times of hardship and extremes of weather.
